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Kalmo
''Zombieroolipeli Kalmo'' (''The Dead: The Zombie Role-Playing Game'') is a Finnish role-playing game written by Risto "Nordic" Hieta and published by Arctic Ranger Productions in 1999 in which players take on the roles of zombies. Description ''Kalmo'' is a light-hearted role-playing game where the players control characters who are newly created zombies. Because zombies are universally hated and feared, players try to integrate their zombies into normal society, hoping that no one will notice and destroy them. Publication history Risto Hietal created a series of small role-playing games in the early 2000s that were published by Arctic Ranger Production, one of these being ''Kalmo''. In the Finnish magazine ''Skrolli'', Hieta explained, "Over the decades I have often tried to come up with something at least slightly new and original. Sometimes it has been realized with good sales, sometimes with slightly less success. In my opinion, a rather successful example of diversity is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risto Hieta
Risto J. Hieta (born 1956), also known by the pseudonym Nordic or Nordic the Incurable, is a Finn connected with the role playing and computer game culture. Early life and career Hieta was born in 1956 in Mänttä in Finland. Hieta has designed several role-playing games himself, and he is also known by columns written in game-related magazines. Hieta published his first Finnish-language role playing game, '' Miekka ja magia'', in 1987. Other games by Hieta include ''Elhendi'' and ''Astra''. He has made the largest number of games produced by Arctic Ranger Production. Hieta has said that he originally found role playing games via a computer game set in the ''Dungeons & Dragons'' world. According to Nordic, his designation "the incurable" refers to his feelings about dragons. Hieta became famous by the name "Nordic" as the writer of the "Peliluola" ("The Gaming Den") column in '' MikroBitti''. Hieta had originally contacted the magazine claiming to write better reviews than ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arctic Ranger Productions
The Arctic (; . ) is the polar region of Earth that surrounds the North Pole, lying within the Arctic Circle. The Arctic region, from the IERS Reference Meridian travelling east, consists of parts of northern Norway (Nordland, Troms, Finnmark, Svalbard and Jan Mayen), northernmost Sweden (Västerbotten, Norrbotten and Lappland), northern Finland (North Ostrobothnia, Kainuu and Lappi), Russia (Murmansk, Siberia, Nenets Okrug, Novaya Zemlya), the United States (Alaska), Canada (Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), Danish Realm (Greenland), and northern Iceland (Grímsey and Kolbeinsey), along with the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas. Land within the Arctic region has seasonally varying snow and ice cover, with predominantly treeless permafrost under the tundra. Arctic seas contain seasonal sea ice in many places. The Arctic region is a unique area among Earth's ecosystems. The cultures in the region and the Arctic indigenous peoples have adapted to its cold and extreme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
