Gareth-Michael Skarka
Gareth-Michael Skarka | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Gareth-Michael Skarka is an e-book author[1] and game designer who founded Adamant Entertainment and has worked primarily on e-published role-playing games.
Career
Gareth-Michael Skarka's cinematic Hong Kong Action Theatre! (1996) was first published by the small-press RPG company Event Horizon Productions.[2]: 336 Skarka co-authored the swashbuckling Skull & Bones (2003) campaign background for Green Ronin Publishing's Mythic Vistas series.[2]: 372 Based in Lawrence, Kansas, Skarka started his company Adamant Entertainment in 2003, publishing material almost entirely for the electronic market, and with a focus on role-playing games.[2]: 430 [1] Skarka later supported Skull & Bones by his own Adamant Entertainment.[2]: 372 When regular Cubicle 7 editor Dominic McDowall-Thomas was busy with a consultancy contract, Skarka stepped in to edit Starblazer Adventures (2008).[2]: 428
Adamant Entertainment has designed licensed role-playing downloads for Doctor Who and Star Trek along with original worlds.
Unreleased transmedia game
In 2011, Skarka ran a Kickstarter campaign which attracted $49,324 in funding for development and publication of his Far West role-playing game, and had regularly posted updates to his Kickstarter after missing deadlines.[3] Far West was intended as a transmedia project including a fiction collection (Tales of the Far West, published in e-book format 30 January 2012) and a role-playing game (Far West Adventure Game, intended for release in December 2011 and still unreleased years later).
References
- ^ a b Svensson, Peter (December 4, 2007). "Slow-Starting E-Books Find Niche Markets". The Washington Post. Associated Press. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
- ^ a b c d e Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.
- ^ Helton, Christopher (2015). "The Federal Trade Commission Takes Action Against Board Game Kickstarter". Bleedingcool.com. Bleeding Cool News. Retrieved 2017-03-07.