Bill Bridges (game Designer)

Bill Bridges (born September 17, 1965) is an American role-playing game developer and fantasy author. He designed the role-playing games '' Werewolf: The Apocalypse'', '' Mage: The Ascension'', and '' Promethean: The Created''. He additionally worked on a video game based on his ''Fading Suns'' role-playing game '' Emperor of the Fading Suns''. He is currently a developer at Holistic Design.

Career

Early career

Bill Bridges was an original developer for White Wolf Publishing from 1992 to 1995, where he contributed to '' Werewolf: The Apocalypse''. Bridges was the line editor for ''Werewolf'' and as one of the early World of Darkness developers, he was a key figure in developing the look and tone of the productions for the setting. He worked on the Storytelling system rules for all the World of Darkness games. It was his goal to present werewolves as something besides accursed humans, an idea which has since been echoed in some popular contemporary novel series. He was a part of the original '' Mage: The Ascension'' design team. He has many writing credits encompassing most of the second edition World of Darkness games, and helped design ''Rage'', the ''Werewolf'' collectible card game.

1995 to 2000

He left White Wolf Publishing in 1996 to join Holistic Design (HDI), where he co-created ''Fading Suns'' with Andrew Greenberg. Bridges received inspiration for the setting from '' The Book of the New Sun'' by Gene Wolfe and '' Foundation'' by Isaac Asimov. Bridges' largest were his ''Alustro's Journals'', a series of "Marco Polo" style diaries featuring the travels of the pilgrim Alustro and his companions. He was the primary author of the ''War in the Heavens'' series, which revealed the secrets of the Symbiots and the Vau. Minor literary similarities can be seen between the Symbiots and the 'defenders of Gaia' Garou in ''Werewolf: the Apocalypse.''

His other work includes writing for Chaosium, the development of the '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' and ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' role-playing games for Last Unicorn Games, '' Emperor of the Fading Suns'' for Segasoft (based on ''Fading Suns,''), co-writing scripts for Viacom's "interactive horror movie" '' Dracula Unleashed,'' and work on '' Starfleet Academy'' for Interplay.

2000 to date

Bridges moved back to White Wolf Publishing on February 12, 2002, replacing Jess Heinig as the developer for the revised edition of '' Mage: The Ascension.'' Bridges saw the game he created through to its conclusion in the Time of Judgment. Bridges and Ken Cliffe developed the book, ''The World of Darkness'' (2004), a single rulebook to cover the new version of the World of Darkness setting and rule system. For the new World of Darkness edition, he worked on the new core rules and was a designer, author, and developer on '' Mage: The Awakening.'' He later moved on to '' Promethean: The Created,'' which won several awards.

Bridges also co-chairs the presenter programming for the biannual myth-based academic conference and performance festival, Mythic Journeys. His published novels include ''The Silver Crown,'' and ''The Last Battle,'' both of which are set in the '' Werewolf: The Apocalypse'' setting.

Publications

Books

Role-playing games

Video games

References

External links

Bridges's bibliography on Goodreads

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American male writers
Role-playing game designers
White Wolf game designers
Living people
1965 births
Live-action role-playing game designers