Jose Garcia is a

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who has worked primarily on

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Career

Jose Garcia started Daedalus Games in 1993 when Robin Laws came to him with an idea for a role-playing game based on Hong Kong Action Cinema films; Garcia liked the idea, but his first priority was own RPG '' Nexus: The Infinite City'', so Daedalus published ''Nexus'' in 1994 with Garcia as the main designer and developer, with additional authors including Laws, Bruce Baugh, and

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. Garcia was also interested in promoting the setting that Laws was developing, which was first used for a collectible card game Daedalus published as ''

Shadowfist ''Shadowfist'' is a card game created by Robin Laws and Jose Garcia. It was released in June 1995 as a collectible card game (CCG), but was shifted to a fixed distribution of cards as of 2013. It shares the same background as ''Feng Shui'', a ...

'' (1995), and subsequently in Laws' ''

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'' RPG. When the CCG market crashed in 1997, the staff of Daedalus were either laid off or quit, leaving Jose Garcia and his sister Maria as the only people remaining with the company. A few years later the company entered bankruptcy protection and sold off its intellectual properties, after which Garcia moved to Europe and left the gaming industry.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Garcia, Jose Canadian game designers Living people Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)