Loren Wiseman
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Loren Wiseman is an award-winning wargame and role-playing game designer, game developer, and editor.
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[edit] Game Designers' Workshop
Loren Wiseman published Eagles[1] (later published by Avalon Hill as Caesar’s Legions[2]), his first wargame, through Game Designers' Workshop in 1974. As a partner at GDW, his primary responsibilities were game development - editing and revising game manuscripts and preparing them for publication. During this period he designed the wargame Pharsalus[3] (1977), and wrote the award-winning Twilight: 2000 role-playing] adventure Going Home.
Wiseman was editor of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society (24 issues) and its successor Challenge magazine (53 issues).
[edit] Steve Jackson Games
When GDW closed in 1995, Wiseman was unemployed for a short time and then worked a succession of part-time jobs before being offered a job at Steve Jackson Games as Art Director and Traveller Line Editor. He is still employed there as of early 2012, although he is no longer Art Director. [Source: Loren Wiseman's webpage at: [4]] He wrote GURPS Traveller and several supporting products, including GURPS Traveller Nobles and The Interstellar Wars[5].
[edit] Awards and recognition
Wiseman received the Origins Award for Best Role-Playing Adventure for Twilight: 2000 Going Home. He was inducted into the Origins Hall of Fame in 2003.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18066/eagles
- ^ http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1722/caesars-legions
- ^ http://72.233.16.130/boardgame/16599/pharsalus
- ^ http://www.cgi101.com/~lkw/work.html
- ^ http://www.cgi101.com/~lkw/
[edit] External links
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