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Night Sky Games
Night Sky Games is an American game company that produces role-playing games (RPGs) and game supplements. Description Meguey Baker played RPGs at a young age, starting with ''Dungeons & Dragons'' at age 7, and moving to ''Shadowrun'', ''Cyberpunk'' and ''Ars Magica'' in later years. She came to believe that most RPGs catered to a narrow band of players; as a young mother she wanted to create RPGs that amplified underrepresented voices and stories, including accessibility to diverse players, play in different settings, play across generations and languages and other cultural division lines. In 2006, Baker founded Night Sky Games with those principles in mind. The first game from the new publisher in 2006 was ''A Thousand and One Nights: A Game of Enticing Stories'' (2006), in which players take on the roles of courtiers in the Sultan's Court. Each player tells stories to the Sultan, trying to advance their personal ambitions while trying to avoid offending the wrong person. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Logo Of Night Sky Games
A logo (abbreviation of logotype; ) is a graphic mark, emblem, or symbol used to aid and promote public identification and recognition. It may be of an abstract or figurative design or include the text of the name that it represents, as in a wordmark. In the days of hot metal typesetting, a logotype was one word cast as a single piece of type (e.g. "The" in ATF Garamond), as opposed to a ligature, which is two or more letters joined, but not forming a word. By extension, the term was also used for a uniquely set and arranged typeface or colophon. At the level of mass communication and in common usage, a company's logo is today often synonymous with its trademark or brand.Wheeler, Alina. ''Designing Brand Identity'' © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (page 4) Etymology Douglas Harper's ''Online Etymology Dictionary'' states that the first surviving written record of the term 'logo' dates back to 1937, and that the term was "probably a shortening of logogram". History Numerous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Role-playing Game
A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, or abbreviated as RPG) is a game in which players assume the roles of player character, characters in a fictional Setting (narrative), setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making regarding character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal role-playing game system, system of rules and guidelines. There are several forms of role-playing games. The original form, sometimes called the tabletop role-playing game (TRPG or TTRPG), is conducted through discussion, whereas in live action role-playing game, live action role-playing (LARP), players physically perform their characters' actions.(Tychsen et al. 2006:255) "LARPs can be viewed as forming a distinct category of RPG because of two unique features: (a) The players physically embody their characters, and (b) the g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meguey Baker
Meguey Baker () is a tabletop role-playing game designer, independent publisher and quilt historian. She and her husband Vincent Baker designed Apocalypse World, the first game in the Powered by the Apocalypse system. Career Game design Baker's most prominent work is ''Apocalypse World'' (2010). Apocalypse World is a post-apocalyptic game co-designed with her husband, Vincent Baker, published through Lumpley Games. ''Apocalypse World'' won multiple awards such as the 2010 Indie RPG Awards, Indie RPG Award for "Game of the Year" and the 2011 Lucca Comics & Games "Best Role-Playing Game" award. Powered by the Apocalypse, the game design framework created by the Bakers for ''Apocalypse World'', has made a lasting impact on role-playing game design. Baker is the founding owner of Night Sky Games. ''A Thousand and One Nights'' (2006), published through Night Sky Games, is a role-playing game based on the collection of Arabic stories ''The Book of One Thousand and One Nights''. Acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dungeons & Dragons
''Dungeons & Dragons'' (commonly abbreviated as ''D&D'' or ''DnD'') is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (TTRPG) originally created and designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. The game was first published in 1974 by TSR (company)#Tactical Studies Rules, Tactical Studies Rules (TSR). It has been published by Wizards of the Coast, later a subsidiary of Hasbro, since 1997. The game was derived from miniature wargaming, miniature wargames, with a variation of the 1971 game ''Chainmail (game), Chainmail'' serving as the initial rule system. ''D&D'' publication is commonly recognized as the beginning of modern role-playing games and the role-playing game industry, which also deeply influenced video games, especially the Role-playing video game, role-playing video game genre. ''D&D'' departs from traditional wargame, wargaming by allowing each player to create their own Player character, character to play instead of a military formation. These characters embark upon adventures wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadowrun
''Shadowrun'' is a science fantasy tabletop role-playing game set in an alternate future in which cybernetics, magic in fiction, magic and fantasy creatures co-exist. It combines genres of cyberpunk, urban fantasy, and crime fiction, crime, with occasional elements of conspiracy fiction, conspiracy, horror fiction, horror, and detective fiction. From its inception in 1989, it has spawned a franchise that includes a series of novels, a collectible card game, two miniature-based tabletop wargames, and multiple video games. The title is taken from the game's main premise – a near-future world damaged by a massive magical event, where industrial espionage and corporate warfare runs rampant. A ''shadowrun'' – a successful data theft or physical break-in at a rival corporation or organization – is one of the main tools employed by both corporate rivals and underworld figures. Deckers (futuristic hacker (computer security), hackers) can tap into an immersive, three-dimensional ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyberpunk (role-playing Game)
''Cyberpunk'' is a tabletop role-playing game in the dystopian science fiction genre, written by Mike Pondsmith and first published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988. It is typically referred to by its second or fourth edition names, ''Cyberpunk 2020'' and ''Cyberpunk Red'', in order to distinguish it from the cyberpunk genre after which it is named. Setting ''Cyberpunk'' exists within its own fictional timeline, which splits from the real world in the 1980s. The timeline has been extended with each major edition of the game, from the first edition set in 2013 to ''Cyberpunk Red'' set in 2045. The backstory for ''Cyberpunk'' begins with the United States becoming embroiled in a major conflict in Central America in the 1980s. This conflict ends in a military coup and causes a significant economic collapse. As a result, the Soviet Union is itself preserved from collapse, and the European Common Market and Japan emerge as global superpowers. In tandem with economic collapse, other ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ars Magica
''Ars Magica'' is a role-playing game set in 'Mythic Europe' – a historically grounded version of Europe and the Levant around AD 1200, with the added conceit that conceptions of the world prevalent in folklore and institutions of the High Middle Ages are factual reality (a situation known informally as the "medieval paradigm"). The players' involvement revolves around an organization of magi and their allies and foes both mundane and supernatural. The game was originally developed by Jonathan Tweet and Mark Rein-Hagen, with its first edition published in 1987. The current edition (the game's fifth) was written by David Chart, and published in 2004 by Atlas Games, who continue to develop new material for it. ''Ars Magica'' was one of the first examples of a troupe system. Early editions recommended that the players collaborate to create the campaign world and story with: * Each player having an opportunity to be Story Guide. (e.g. alternating by play session, 'chapter' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evil Hat Productions
Evil Hat Productions is a company that produces role-playing games and other tabletop games. They are best known for the free indie RPG system ''Fate'', '' Blades in the Dark'', and '' Thirsty Sword Lesbians'', all of which have won multiple awards. History Fred Hicks had been working with Lydia Leong, Rob Donoghue, and others to run LARPs at AmberCon NorthWest starting in 1999, and came up with the name Evil Hat for themselves. While on a trip to Lake Tahoe, friends Hicks and Donoghue developed a new game based on a conversation about running another ''Amber'' game and fixing some problems with '' FUDGE''; the result was ''Fate'' which Hicks and Donoghue would publish under the name Evil Hat. Donoghue and Hicks released a complete first-edition of ''Fate'' through Yahoo! Groups (January 2003) then cleaned up the technical writing and slightly polished the system for a second edition (August 2003). Hicks and Donoghue began work on the licensed '' Dresden Files Roleplaying G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Baker
David Vincent Baker is a designer and theorist of tabletop role-playing games and the owner of indie role-playing games publisher Lumpley Games, which also hosts the archives of The Forge. He and his wife Meguey Baker designed ''Apocalypse World'', the first game in the Powered by the Apocalypse system. ''Apocalypse World'' won Game of the Year, Best Support, and Most Innovative game at the 2010 Indie RPG Awards, and was 2011 RPG of the Year at both the Golden Geek Awards and Lucca Comics & Games. Baker also designed ''Dogs in the Vineyard'', which won the 2004 Indie RPG Game of the Year and Innovation Award and was one of three games shortlisted for the 2004 Diana Jones Award. Games Vincent Baker is the designer of the indie role-playing game ''Dogs in the Vineyard'' (2004), one of the first indie RPGs to be both financially and sociologically successful. This game is about God's Watchdogs who protect the faithful from the dangers of the 19th century American frontier, and the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Apocalypse World
''Apocalypse World'' is a post-apocalyptic indie role-playing game by D. Vincent Baker and Meguey Baker, published in 2010 with only an implied setting that is fleshed out by the players in the course of character creation. It was the game for which the Powered by the Apocalypse engine was developed. On release, ''Apocalypse World'' won the 2010 Indie RPG Award and 2011 Golden Geek RPG of the year. A second edition was successfully Kickstarted in 2016.https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/226674021/apocalypse-world-2nd-edition/description Apocalypse World 2nd Edition Kickstarter Campaign This edition updated some of the mechanics (HX, battle-moves, threat map, etc.), playbooks (including replacing the Operator with Maestro-D and Quarantine), and brought Meguey Baker on board as co-designer,http://apocalypse-world.com/pbta Powered By the Apocalypse Database. Vincent Baker. but retained most of the original's design. A redesign, ''Apocalypse World: Burned Over'', has been in devel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashcan Comic
An ashcan comic is a form of the American comic book created solely to establish trademarks on potential titles and not intended for sale. The practice was common in the 1930s and 1940s when the comic book industry was in its infancy, but was phased out after updates to US trademark law. The term was revived in the 1980s by Bob Burden, who applied it to prototypes of his self-published comic book. Since the 1990s, the term has been used to describe promotional materials produced in large print runs and made available for mass consumption. In the film and television industries, the term "ashcan copy" has been adopted for low-grade material created to preserve a claim to licensed property rights. Original use The modern comic book was created in the 1930s, and grew rapidly in popularity. In the competition to secure trademarks on titles intended to sound thrilling, publishers including All-American Publications and Fawcett Comics developed the ashcan edition, which was the same siz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Czege
Paul Czege is a designer of Tabletop role-playing game, tabletop role-playing games. Czege was a member of The Forge (roleplaying game website), The Forge and later became a publisher of indie role-playing games. He has won the Diana Jones Award and several Indie RPG Awards. Awards ''Nicotine Girls'' won "Best Free Game" at the 2002 Indie RPG Awards. ''My Life With Master'' was the third role-playing game to win the Diana Jones Award. It also won the "Indie Game of the Year" award at the 2003 Indie RPG Awards and the 2003 Out of the Box Award for "Best Sui Generis RPG." ''The Clay That Woke'' won two Indie RPG Awards in 2014, for "Indie Game of the Year" and "Most Innovative Game." Games * ''The World, the Flesh, and the Devil'' * ''Nicotine Girls'' * ''My Life with Master'' * ''The Valedictorian’s Death'' * ''Bacchanal'' * ''Specimen for the Resurrection'' * ''Acts of Evil'' (released incomplete) * ''The Niche Engine'' * ''Honeydew'' * ''Thy Vernal Chieftains'' * ''The Cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
