Kevin Barrett is a

game designer Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game for entertainment or for educational, exercise, or experimental purposes. Increasingly, elements and principles of game design are also applied to other interactions, in ...

who has worked primarily on

role-playing game A role-playing game (sometimes spelled roleplaying game, 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 ...

Career

Kevin Barrett collaborated with

Terry K. Amthor Terry K. Amthor (October 18, 1958 – September 25, 2021) was an American game designer who worked primarily on role-playing games, and as a fantasy author. Early life and education Amthor was born in Chicago but soon moved to Manitowoc, Wisco ...

in the creation of ''

Spacemaster ''Space Master'' is a science fiction role-playing game produced by Iron Crown Enterprises, written by Kevin Barrett and developed by Kevin Barrett and Terry K. Amthor. History Iron Crown Enterprises published ''Spacemaster'' in 1985. ICE pu ...

'' (1985), the science-fiction version of ''

Rolemaster ''Rolemaster'' (originally ''Role Master'') is a tabletop role-playing game published by Iron Crown Enterprises since 1980. Editions ''Rolemaster'' has a total of four editions. First edition (RM1): 1980–1982 This edition includes the or ...

'', which also had a second edition in 1988. The first miniatures game from

Iron Crown Enterprises Iron Crown Enterprises (ICE) is a publishing company that has produced role playing, board, miniature, and collectible card games since 1980. Many of ICE's better-known products were related to J. R. R. Tolkien's world of Middle-earth, but the '' ...

was Barrett's '' Silent Death'' (1990), which initially used the ''Spacemaster'' background. By 1992, Barrett had left ICE. He later worked as writer at

BioWare BioWare is a Canadian video game developer based in Edmonton, Alberta. It was founded in 1995 by newly graduated Doctor of Medicine, medical doctors Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk and Augustine Yip, alongside Trent Oster, Brent Oster, and Marcel Zes ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Barrett, Kevin Living people Role-playing game designers Year of birth missing (living people)