Loren Wiseman
Loren Wiseman is an award-winning American wargame and role-playing game designer, game developer, and editor.
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Game Designers' Workshop [edit]
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).
Steve Jackson Games [edit]
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]
Awards and recognition [edit]
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.
References [edit]
- ^ "Eagles | Board Game". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
- ^ "Caesar's Legions | Board Game". BoardGameGeek. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
- ^ "Pharsalus | Board Game | BoardGameGeek". 72.233.16.130. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
- ^ "Biography". Cgi101.com. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
- ^ "Home Page for Loren K. Wiseman". Cgi101.com. Retrieved 2012-10-23.
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