Kevin Wilson is a

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who has worked primarily on

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s and

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Early life and education

Wilson received a B.A. in Cognitive Science (Artificial Intelligence) from U.C. Berkeley in 1997, and was active in the interactive fiction community at the time. He wrote several works of interactive fiction — including ''Once and Future'' and ''The Lesson of the Tortoise'' — and founded the annual

Interactive Fiction Competition The Interactive Fiction Competition (also known as IFComp) is one of several annual competitions for works of interactive fiction. It has been held since 1995. It is intended for fairly short games, as judges are only allowed to spend two hours pla ...

and the Internet magazine ''SPAG''.

Career

Kevin Wilson has been a game designer since the late 1990s. Wilson co-designed '' 7th Sea'' (1998), the second role-playing game from

Alderac Entertainment Group Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) is a publisher of family board game products. AEG was formed by Jolly Blackburn in 1993. Blackburn left the company in 1995 and the majority of the company is now owned by President & CEO John Zinser. The comp ...

, with Jennifer Wick and

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. Wilson wrote the adventure ''Wonders Out of Time'' (2001), the sequel to '' Akrasia: Thief of Time'' (2001) in the "Eden Odyssey" series of adventures from Eden Studios. Wilson is the co-designer of the ''

Spycraft Spycraft is a d20 and OGL-based role-playing game dealing with superspies and modern action. Originally published by the Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG), it is currently published under licence by Crafty Games. History Originally envisi ...

'' roleplaying game.

Fantasy Flight Games Fantasy Flight Games (FFG) is a game developer based in Roseville, Minnesota, United States, that creates and publishes role-playing game, role-playing, board game, board, card game, card, and dice game, dice games. As of 2014, it is a division of ...

hired Wilson to manage their retooling on the ''Legends & Lairs'' line, and he decided to split the line into smaller sublines made up of smaller sourcebooks. Christian T. Petersen and Wilson designed the wargame ''

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'' (2003), which was one of several games published by Fantasy Flight in the American style while the company had been republishing eurogames. Wilson is the author of the RPG book ''Spellslinger''. Petersen and Wilson created a gaming system for '' Doom: The Boardgame'' (2004), which was later revised and used in '' Descent: Journeys in the Dark'' (2006). Wilson also designed '' World of Warcraft: The Board Game'' (2005), as well as ''

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'' second edition (with Richard Launius). He also designed '' Sid Meier's Civilization: The Board Game'' (2010). Wilson lives near the Twin Cities.

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Home page

Kevin Wilson :: Pen & Paper RPG Databasearchive
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