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{{Short description|American game designer}} |
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|birth_date = 1966 |
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|nationality = [[United States|American]] |
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'''Oliver Jovanovic''' is an instructor at [[Columbia University]]'s Department of Microbiology and Immunology.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=http://www.microbiology.columbia.edu/faculty/jovanovic.html|title=Department of Microbiology & Immunology|website=www.microbiology.columbia.edu|access-date=2018-06-03}}</ref> He has worked as a [[game designer]] primarily on [[role-playing game]]s. He was involved in the high-profile New York case ''[[People v. Jovanovic]]''. |
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==Career== |
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Oliver Jovanovic was developing a new version of the role-playing game ''[[RuneQuest]]'' for [[Avalon Hill]],<ref name = "NYT">{{cite news|last1=Barry|first1=Dan|last2=Roane|first2=Kit R.|title=Internet Sex-Assault Suspect Enjoyed Macabre and Mythical|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/12/16/nyregion/internet-sex-assault-suspect-enjoyed-macabre-and-mythical.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm|accessdate=20 June 2014|work=New York Times|date=December 16, 1996}}</ref> and was the lead author of the ''RuneQuest: Adventures in Glorantha'' line in 1996.<ref name="designers">{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7|pages=179}}</ref> [[Eric Dott]], chairman of Avalon Hill, noted that Jovanovic's version of ''[[RuneQuest]]'' had not been published because the developers repeatedly missed deadlines.<ref name="NYT"/> |
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Jovanovic graduated from the University of Chicago,<ref name="NYT" /> and then obtained a Ph.D. in microbiology from Columbia in May 2002.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://nypost.com/2002/06/26/freed-cybersex-ollie-pushes-book-movie/|title=FREED CYBERSEX OLLIE PUSHES BOOK, MOVIE|date=2002-06-26|work=New York Post|access-date=2018-06-04|language=en-US}}</ref> He works at Columbia's Department of Microbiology and Immunology as Instructor and Director of Bioinformatics & Information Technology.<ref name=":0" /> |
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{{Main|People v. Jovanovic}} |
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In 1996, Oliver Jovanovic was accused of [[sadomasochism|sadomasochistic]] torture of a woman whom he had met shortly before on the Internet.<ref name=npr>{{cite news|last=Young|first=Cathy|title=Weekly Standard: The Feminine Lie Mystique|url=https://www.npr.org/2011/07/29/138816111/weekly-standard-the-feminine-lie-mystique|accessdate=January 4, 2013|newspaper=NPR|date=July 29, 2011}}</ref> He was convicted but later freed on appeal.<ref name="designers" /><ref name = "appeal">[http://www.anusha.com/jov-deci.htm Decision of Supreme Court, Appellate Division, December 1999], including summary of all relevant facts</ref> On December 20, 1999, Jovanovic was released from prison when the [[New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division|New York appeals court]] ruled in a 3-to-1 decision, and in a 40-page majority opinion by Appellate Justice David Saxe, that the state's [[rape shield law]] had been misapplied by the judge in charge of the case.<ref name = "appeal" /> The case was dismissed [[with prejudice]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fritsch|first1=Jane|last2=Finkelstein|first2=Katherine E.|title=Charges Dismissed in Columbia Sexual Torture Case|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/02/nyregion/charges-dismissed-in-columbia-sexual-torture-case.html|accessdate=20 June 2014|work=New York Times|date=November 2, 2001}}</ref> Jovanovic sued the City of New York for $10 million for prosecutorial misconduct,<ref name="designers"/> but the case was dismissed in 2010.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bray|first1=Chad|title=Wrongful Prosecution Suit Against City Is Dismissed|url=https://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703882404575520743846916002|accessdate=20 June 2014|publisher=Wall Street Journal|date=September 28, 2010}}</ref> |
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==References== |
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==External links== |
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=6447 |title=Oliver Jovanovic :: Pen & Paper RPG Database|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070519224604/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=6447|archivedate=Jan 18, 2005}} |
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[[Category:1966 births]] |
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[[Category:American game designers]] |
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[[Category:Living people]] |
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[[Category:Place of birth missing (living people)]] |
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[[Category:Role-playing game designers]] |
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