John Tynes
John Tynes (born 1971) is a writer best known for his work on role-playing games such as Unknown Armies, Delta Green, Puppetland, and for his company Tynes Cowan Corporation. Under its imprint Pagan Publishing, Tynes Cowan Corp. produces third-party books for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game under license from Chaosium as well as fiction and non-fiction books under its imprint Armitage House.
Following the end of Unknown Armies in 2003,[1] Tynes withdrew from the tabletop gaming industry in order to pursue other interests, particularly film[2] and videogames.[3] He was the producer of Pirates of the Burning Sea, a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Flying Lab Software and published in 2008 by Sony Online Entertainment. After the launch of PotBS, he joined Microsoft Game Studios to work on various Xbox Live Arcade titles including South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play![4] & Toy Soldiers[5] as a producer and game designer.
[edit] References
- ^ "A Brief History of Game #13: Atlas Games: 1990-Present". RPG.net. http://www.rpg.net/columns/briefhistory/briefhistory13.phtml. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
- ^ "John Tynes Filmography". IMDB.com. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1392067/. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
- ^ "Interview with John Tynes". FlamesRising.com. March 17, 2004. http://www.flamesrising.com/interview-with-john-tynes/. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
- ^ "Save South Park One Snowball at a Time Panel Recap". Gamespot.com. http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/strategy/southparkletsgotowerdefenseplay/news.html?sid=6214184. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
- ^ "Toy Soldiers Credits". MobyGames.com. http://www.mobygames.com/game/xbox360/toy-soldiers/credits. Retrieved October 13, 2010.
[edit] External links
- Personal website
- Pen & Paper RPG Database entry for John Tynes
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