Shane Ivey

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Shane Ivey
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Shane Ivey is an American game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Career

Shane Ivey worked for Pagan Publishing. [1] : 250  After the release of Godlike in 2002 Dennis Detwiller and Ivey founded Arc Dream Publishing. [2] [3] Ivey and Detwiller formed Arc Dream Publishing in late 2002 when Pagan Publishing was ending its main operations; their plan at the time was to publish supplements for Godlike. [1] : 250  Detwiller and Ivey wrote the supplement Delta Green: Targets of Opportunity (2010) and brought back the magazine The Unspeakable Oath starting with issue #18 (December 2010). [1] : 250  Through Arc Dream Publishing, Ivey edited and published other games including Monsters and Other Childish Things , Wild Talents , Puppetland , and Better Angels. Ivey contributed to the books Rivendell, Horse-lords of Rohan, and Oaths of the Riddermark for Cubicle 7 Entertainment's J.R.R. Tolkien-based roleplaying game The One Ring Roleplaying Game . Ivey cowrote Delta Green: The Role-Playing Game with Dennis Detwiller, Adam Scott Glancy, and Greg Stolze, and cowrote or published 34 books in the award-winning Delta Green line between 2015 and 2020.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN   978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. ↑ Interview: Shane Ivey of Arc Dream Publishing, January 21, 2009, LivingDice.com
  3. ↑ "Who We Are". Arc Dream Publishing. Retrieved 2006-08-19.
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