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Joshua A.C. Newman

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Joshua A.C. Newman is a role-playing game designer.

Career

Newman is the designer of the Indie role-playing games Under the Bed (2005), Shock: Social Science Fiction (2006), Beowulf (2008), Shock:Human Contact (2010), and The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze (2016). His publishing imprint is called the glyphphress.

In 2012, Joshua A.C. Newman worked with Vincent Baker on a new version of the Mechaton rules as Mobile Frame Zero 001: Rapid Attack (2012), and Newman was able to use this for a successful Kickstarter.[1] Rapid Attack was followed by Mobile Frame Zero 002: Intercept Orbit, a carrier-based spaceship battle game in the same universe.

Personal life

He resides in Northampton, Massachusetts,[citation needed] where he is also a book and graphic designer.[citation needed] He teaches game design at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences.[citation needed] He also teaches in an alternative high school in Holyoke, Massachusetts.[citation needed]

The homepage of the glyphpress leads to Newman's blog, xenoglyph, concerned with many forms of speculative art and design, not limited to games.

Roleplaying bibliography

Newman has also contributed to the book design of several other indie roleplaying games.

References

  1. ^ Shannon Appelcline (2014). Designers & Dragons: The '00s. Evil Hat Productions. p. 186. ISBN 978-1-61317-087-8.