Paul Jaquays
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Paul Jaquays is a game designer and artist
of table-top role-playing game
s (RPGs) and video games.
Some of his notable works include the Dungeons & Dragons
modules "Dark Tower
" and "Caverns of Thracia" for Judges Guild
; development and design of conversions on games such as Pac-Man
and Donkey Kong
for Coleco
's home arcade
video game system; and more recent design work for various video games, including the Age of Empires series, Quake 2, and Quake III Arena
.
The most renowned of his many works as a fantasy artist is the cover illustration for TSR
's Dragon Mountain game.
in Michigan
and Indiana
, Jaquays graduated from Jackson County Western High School (Michigan) in 1974 and Spring Arbor College in 1978 with a BA in Fine Art
.
industry through the pages of The Space Gamer
. He founded The Dungeoneer, one of the early fanzines dedicated to the subject, in 1976. The magazine was marketed as a "dungeonmaster's publication", and was noteworthy for its pioneering approach to pre-factored adventures
("F'Chelrak's Tomb" was published in June 1976, the same month as Wee Warriors
' Palace of the Vampire Queen). The publication was an inspiration for many later such magazines in the United States and elsewhere.
In addition to these "honest efforts at quality contents to interest readers", Jaquays began submitting artwork TSR
's in-house gaming magazine, The Dragon
, in 1976. He first appeared in the premiere issue of that publication; later contributions included the cover of issue #21.
, which was by late 1978 providing prolific material and officially licensed products for TSR's Dungeons & Dragons
line.
Anshell retained a level of editorial control over The Dungeoneer, one of Judges Guild's two gaming periodicals. Jaquays worked on two stand-alone modules
for Dungeons & Dragons, Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia, which were completed before he left the company in October 1979. He provided various content on a freelance basis thereafter, particularly to The Dungeoneer.
Jaquays changed the direction of his career toward video games in the early 1980s, but continued to work as a freelancer for various table-top game publishers, including Chaosium
, TSR, Game Designers Workshop, West End Games
, Flying Buffalo
, and Iron Crown Enterprises
. In particular he did a lot of freelance work from 1986 to 1993 whilst running his own design studio.
From 1993 to 1997, he returned to full time employment in the table-top gaming industry as an illustrator for TSR, including a six month period as Director of Graphics, leaving just before their takeover by Wizards of the Coast
. During this time, he played an active role in the creation of the Dragon Dice
game, both as cover artist and icon designer.
, Jaquays worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the Jackson Citizen Patriot in 1980. During the latter 1980s he was a regular interior artist for Amazing Stories
, and contributed one cover.
, first in a freelance capacity from 1980, then as a full-time employee from 1981 to 1985. He developed and designed arcade conversions of many well-known titles such as Pac-Man
and Donkey Kong
for their home arcade
video game system. He eventually became director of game design.
During his freelance design studio period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he continued his involvement in the video game industry, with concept and design work for Epyx
, Interplay Entertainment
, and Electronic Arts
.
From March 1997, Jaquays was employed as level designer for id Software
, best known for their Quake series of video games
, before moving to Dallas-based Ensemble Studios
, which had "become a haven for ex-id Software developers". He worked there from early 2002 until the company's closure in January 2009 with former tabletop and computer gaming associate Sandy Petersen
, who had previously hired Jaquays at id Software as a content designer.
Jaquays co-founded The Guildhall at SMU
, a video game university located at the Plano campus of the Southern Methodist University
(SMU) in Dallas
, in 2003. He helped create much of the original curriculum material.
As of October 2009 he was employed as a senior level designer with CCP North America in Stone Mountain, Georgia
, the regional division of CCP hf of Iceland. The company is best known for their science fiction MMORPG
EVE Online
.
, with his wife Christine and three cats. He has two children from a previous marriage and a stepdaughter from his current marriage, and has described himself as "politically, economically, and religiously conservative". One of his children worked with him on the PC version of Age of Empires 3.
Jaquays was co-author and illustrator for Chaosium
's Griffin Mountain RuneQuest
scenario. Set in Glorantha
, this highly-praised scenario was nominated for the 1981 H.G. Welles award. The reworked version, Griffin Island, was nominated for the same award in 1986.
Coleco's Wargames, for which Jaquays was co-designer of game play, won the 1984 Summer C.E.S. original software award.
As a level designer for TSR's Castle Greyhawk
module, Jaquays shared the 1989 Origins
Gamer's Choice Award for Best Role-Playing Adventure.
Game artist
A game artist is an artist who creates art for one or more types of games. Game artists are responsible for all of the aspects of game development that call for visual art...
of table-top role-playing game
Role-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
s (RPGs) and video games.
Some of his notable works include the Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
modules "Dark Tower
Dark Tower (module)
Dark Tower is an adventure module published by Judges Guild in 1980 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...
" and "Caverns of Thracia" for Judges Guild
Judges Guild
Judges Guild is a small game publisher in the business of creating and selling role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related material, most notable as one of the leading publishers in the late 1970s and early 1980s of Dungeons & Dragons-related materials...
; development and design of conversions on games such as Pac-Man
Pac-Man
is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...
and Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong
is a fictional gorilla in the Donkey Kong and Mario series. He is roughly twice the size of a normal gorilla, weighing approximately 800 pounds. Donkey Kong first appeared in Nintendo's popular 1981 video game of the same name. Since then he has appeared in over 20 games in his own series, as well...
for Coleco
Coleco
Coleco is an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company". It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game consoles, the Coleco Telstar and...
's home arcade
ColecoVision
The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, and the means to expand the system's basic hardware...
video game system; and more recent design work for various video games, including the Age of Empires series, Quake 2, and Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena
Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly...
.
The most renowned of his many works as a fantasy artist is the cover illustration for TSR
TSR, Inc.
Blume and Gygax, the remaining owners, incorporated a new company called TSR Hobbies, Inc., with Blume and his father, Melvin Blume, owning the larger share. The former assets of the partnership were transferred to TSR Hobbies, Inc....
's Dragon Mountain game.
Early life
Living from an early age in the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
in Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
and Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
, Jaquays graduated from Jackson County Western High School (Michigan) in 1974 and Spring Arbor College in 1978 with a BA in Fine Art
Fine art
Fine art or the fine arts encompass art forms developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than practical application. Art is often a synonym for fine art, as employed in the term "art gallery"....
.
The Dungeoneer and fantasy roleplaying
While still at college he became interested in science-fiction and fantasy gaming and the nascent role-playing gameRole-playing game
A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...
industry through the pages of The Space Gamer
The Space Gamer
The Space Gamer was a magazine dedicated to the subject of science fiction and fantasy board games and role-playing games. It quickly grew in importance and was an important and influential magazine in its subject matter from the late 70s through the mid-80s...
. He founded The Dungeoneer, one of the early fanzines dedicated to the subject, in 1976. The magazine was marketed as a "dungeonmaster's publication", and was noteworthy for its pioneering approach to pre-factored adventures
Adventure (role-playing games)
An adventure is either a published or otherwise written collection of plot, character, and location details used by a gamemaster to manage the plot or story in a role-playing game. Each adventure is based upon a particular gaming genre and is normally designed for use with a specific game or gaming...
("F'Chelrak's Tomb" was published in June 1976, the same month as Wee Warriors
Wee Warriors
The company Wee Warriors Ltd. published role-playing game accessories in the 1970s. It notably published the first stand alone adventure for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game...
' Palace of the Vampire Queen). The publication was an inspiration for many later such magazines in the United States and elsewhere.
In addition to these "honest efforts at quality contents to interest readers", Jaquays began submitting artwork TSR
TSR, Inc.
Blume and Gygax, the remaining owners, incorporated a new company called TSR Hobbies, Inc., with Blume and his father, Melvin Blume, owning the larger share. The former assets of the partnership were transferred to TSR Hobbies, Inc....
's in-house gaming magazine, The Dragon
Dragon (magazine)
Dragon is one of the two official magazines for source material for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and associated products, the other being Dungeon. TSR, Inc. originally launched the monthly printed magazine in 1976 to succeed the company's earlier publication, The Strategic Review. The...
, in 1976. He first appeared in the premiere issue of that publication; later contributions included the cover of issue #21.
Judges Guild, later independent roleplaying projects, and TSR
Jaquays decided to sell his interest in The Dungeoneer just before graduating to focus on his art studio work. He later followed the new owner, Charles Anshell, to Judges GuildJudges Guild
Judges Guild is a small game publisher in the business of creating and selling role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related material, most notable as one of the leading publishers in the late 1970s and early 1980s of Dungeons & Dragons-related materials...
, which was by late 1978 providing prolific material and officially licensed products for TSR's Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons
Dungeons & Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game originally designed by Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and first published in 1974 by Tactical Studies Rules, Inc. . The game has been published by Wizards of the Coast since 1997...
line.
Anshell retained a level of editorial control over The Dungeoneer, one of Judges Guild's two gaming periodicals. Jaquays worked on two stand-alone modules
Adventure (Dungeons & Dragons)
In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, an adventure or module is a pre-packaged book or box set that helps the Dungeon Master manage the plot or story of a game...
for Dungeons & Dragons, Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia, which were completed before he left the company in October 1979. He provided various content on a freelance basis thereafter, particularly to The Dungeoneer.
Jaquays changed the direction of his career toward video games in the early 1980s, but continued to work as a freelancer for various table-top game publishers, including Chaosium
Chaosium
Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods...
, TSR, Game Designers Workshop, West End Games
West End Games
West End Games was a company that made board, role-playing, and war games. It was founded by Daniel Scott Palter in 1974 in New York, but later moved to Honesdale, Pennsylvania...
, Flying Buffalo
Flying Buffalo
Flying Buffalo Incorporated is a Scottsdale, Arizona game company that publishes role playing games, card games, gaming materials, and runs Play-by-mail games....
, and Iron Crown Enterprises
Iron Crown Enterprises
Iron Crown Enterprises was a publisher of role playing, board, miniature battle, and collectible card games.ICE was incorporated in 1980 shortly after the principal founders graduated from the University of Virginia...
. In particular he did a lot of freelance work from 1986 to 1993 whilst running his own design studio.
From 1993 to 1997, he returned to full time employment in the table-top gaming industry as an illustrator for TSR, including a six month period as Director of Graphics, leaving just before their takeover by Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast
Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games...
. During this time, he played an active role in the creation of the Dragon Dice
Dragon Dice
Dragon Dice is a collectible dice game originally made by TSR, Inc., and is published today by SFR, Inc. It is one of only a handful of collectible dice games produced in the early 1990s. In 1995, Dragon Dice won the Origins Award for Best Fantasy or Science-Fiction Board Game...
game, both as cover artist and icon designer.
Freelance artwork
In addition to his many gaming artwork contributions, including artwork spread over two decades to TSR's first-line periodicals, Dragon and DungeonDungeon (magazine)
Dungeon Adventures, or simply Dungeon, was a magazine targeting consumers of role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. It was first published by TSR, Inc. in 1986 as a bimonthly periodical. It went monthly in May 2003 and ceased print publication altogether in September 2007 with Issue 150...
, Jaquays worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the Jackson Citizen Patriot in 1980. During the latter 1980s he was a regular interior artist for Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories
Amazing Stories was an American science fiction magazine launched in April 1926 by Hugo Gernsback's Experimenter Publishing. It was the first magazine devoted solely to science fiction...
, and contributed one cover.
Video game industry
After leaving Judges Guild, Jaquays worked for ColecoColeco
Coleco is an American company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company". It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game consoles, the Coleco Telstar and...
, first in a freelance capacity from 1980, then as a full-time employee from 1981 to 1985. He developed and designed arcade conversions of many well-known titles such as Pac-Man
Pac-Man
is an arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution in the United States by Midway, first released in Japan on May 22, 1980. Immensely popular from its original release to the present day, Pac-Man is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games,...
and Donkey Kong
Donkey Kong
is a fictional gorilla in the Donkey Kong and Mario series. He is roughly twice the size of a normal gorilla, weighing approximately 800 pounds. Donkey Kong first appeared in Nintendo's popular 1981 video game of the same name. Since then he has appeared in over 20 games in his own series, as well...
for their home arcade
ColecoVision
The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, and the means to expand the system's basic hardware...
video game system. He eventually became director of game design.
During his freelance design studio period in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he continued his involvement in the video game industry, with concept and design work for Epyx
Epyx
Epyx, Inc. was a video game developer and publisher in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s. The company was founded as Automated Simulations by Jim Connelley and Jon Freeman, originally using Epyx as a brand name for action-oriented games before renaming the company to match in 1983...
, Interplay Entertainment
Interplay Entertainment
Interplay Entertainment Corporation is an American video game developer and publisher, founded in 1983 as Interplay Productions by Brian Fargo. The company had been a quality developer until they started publishing their own games in 1988, like Neuromancer and Battle Chess. The company was renamed...
, and Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...
.
From March 1997, Jaquays was employed as level designer for id Software
Id Software
Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
, best known for their Quake series of video games
Quake (series)
The Quake series is a line of first-person shooter video games produced by id Software.-Overview:The Quake series is somewhat unusual in that its focus changes frequently; the story of Quake II has nothing to do with Quake, and Quake III Arena has little to do with either of its predecessors...
, before moving to Dallas-based Ensemble Studios
Ensemble Studios
Ensemble Studios was a video game developer initially established in 1995 as an independent company, but was owned by Microsoft from 2001 to 2009, when it was officially disbanded. Ensemble developed many real-time strategy games, including the Age of Empires game series, Age of Mythology, and Halo...
, which had "become a haven for ex-id Software developers". He worked there from early 2002 until the company's closure in January 2009 with former tabletop and computer gaming associate Sandy Petersen
Sandy Petersen
Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen is a game designer.Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended University of California, Berkeley, majoring in zoology....
, who had previously hired Jaquays at id Software as a content designer.
Jaquays co-founded The Guildhall at SMU
The Guildhall at SMU
The Guildhall at SMU is a video game university located at the Southern Methodist University Plano campus. Students learn how to create a game, from the basics to a total conversion. Graduates present their work at a semiannual exhibition...
, a video game university located at the Plano campus of the Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University
Southern Methodist University is a private university in Dallas, Texas, United States. Founded in 1911 by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, SMU operates campuses in Dallas, Plano, and Taos, New Mexico. SMU is owned by the South Central Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church...
(SMU) in Dallas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States...
, in 2003. He helped create much of the original curriculum material.
As of October 2009 he was employed as a senior level designer with CCP North America in Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain, Georgia
Stone Mountain is a city in eastern DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 5,802 at the 2010 census. It is an outer suburb of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area.-Geography:...
, the regional division of CCP hf of Iceland. The company is best known for their science fiction MMORPG
MMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
EVE Online
EVE Online
Eve Online is a video game by CCP Games. It is a player-driven, persistent-world MMORPG set in a science fiction space setting. Characters pilot customizable ships through a galaxy of over 7,500 star systems. Most star systems are connected to one or more other star systems by means of stargates...
.
Personal life
Having recently moved from Texas, Jaquays currently lives in Atlanta, GeorgiaAtlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
, with his wife Christine and three cats. He has two children from a previous marriage and a stepdaughter from his current marriage, and has described himself as "politically, economically, and religiously conservative". One of his children worked with him on the PC version of Age of Empires 3.
Awards and honors
One of the many "unsung heroes" of the gaming industry, Jaquays' Dark Tower was nominated for the 1979 H.G. Wells award for Best Roleplaying Adventure. In November 2004, as part of the 30th Anniversary celebration for Dungeons & Dragons, Dungeon magazine produced a list of the "thirty greatest D&D Adventures of All Time". Dark Tower was the only entry on the list not published by TSR.Jaquays was co-author and illustrator for Chaosium
Chaosium
Chaosium is one of the longer lived publishers of role-playing games still in existence. Founded by Greg Stafford, its first game was actually a wargame, White Bear and Red Moon, which later mutated into Dragon Pass and its sequel, Nomad Gods...
's Griffin Mountain RuneQuest
RuneQuest
RuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 1978 by Chaosium, created by Steve Perrin and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. RuneQuest was notable for its original gaming system and for its verisimilitude in adhering to an original fantasy world...
scenario. Set in Glorantha
Glorantha
Glorantha is the Fantasy world created by Greg Stafford and since used as the background for several role-playing games, including RuneQuest , Hero Wars and HeroQuest , as well as several works of fiction and the computer strategy game King of Dragon Pass...
, this highly-praised scenario was nominated for the 1981 H.G. Welles award. The reworked version, Griffin Island, was nominated for the same award in 1986.
Coleco's Wargames, for which Jaquays was co-designer of game play, won the 1984 Summer C.E.S. original software award.
As a level designer for TSR's Castle Greyhawk
Castle Greyhawk (module)
Castle Greyhawk is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The module bears the code WG7 and was published by TSR, Inc...
module, Jaquays shared the 1989 Origins
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.The Origins Award is commonly...
Gamer's Choice Award for Best Role-Playing Adventure.
Partial bibliography of works in print
- The Dungeoneer (D&D fanzineFanzineA fanzine is a nonprofessional and nonofficial publication produced by fans of a particular cultural phenomenon for the pleasure of others who share their interest...
) (editor 1976–77, contributor 1976–79) - Dark TowerDark Tower (module)Dark Tower is an adventure module published by Judges Guild in 1980 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...
(AD&D Scenario – Judges GuildJudges GuildJudges Guild is a small game publisher in the business of creating and selling role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related material, most notable as one of the leading publishers in the late 1970s and early 1980s of Dungeons & Dragons-related materials...
:88) (1980; revised 2001, 2007) - Caverns of Thracia (D&D Scenario – Judges GuildJudges GuildJudges Guild is a small game publisher in the business of creating and selling role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related material, most notable as one of the leading publishers in the late 1970s and early 1980s of Dungeons & Dragons-related materials...
:102) (1979; revised 2004) - Legendary Duck Tower and Other Tales (RunequestRuneQuestRuneQuest is a fantasy role-playing game first published in 1978 by Chaosium, created by Steve Perrin and set in Greg Stafford's mythical world of Glorantha. RuneQuest was notable for its original gaming system and for its verisimilitude in adhering to an original fantasy world...
Scenario – Judges GuildJudges GuildJudges Guild is a small game publisher in the business of creating and selling role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related material, most notable as one of the leading publishers in the late 1970s and early 1980s of Dungeons & Dragons-related materials...
:220) (1980) (with Rudy Kraft) - The Unknown Gods (D&D Sourcebook – Judges GuildJudges GuildJudges Guild is a small game publisher in the business of creating and selling role-playing game supplements, periodicals and related material, most notable as one of the leading publishers in the late 1970s and early 1980s of Dungeons & Dragons-related materials...
:420) (co-author) (1980) - Griffin Mountain (Runequest Campaign Setting) (with Rudy Kraft & Greg StaffordGreg StaffordFrancis Gregory Stafford , usually known as Greg Stafford, is an American game designer, publisher and shaman.-Glorantha and gaming:...
) (1981; revised & expanded 1986 as Griffin Island) - Cults of Terror (Runequest Sourcebook) (1981) (co-author)
- The Enchanted Wood (DragonQuestDragonQuestDragonQuest is a fantasy role-playing game originally published by Simulations Publications in 1980. Where first generation fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons restricted players to particular character classes, DragonQuest was one of the first games to utilize a system that...
Module) (1981) - Talons of NightTalons of NightTalons of Night is an Egyptian-themed adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, set in that game's Mystara campaign setting. TSR, Inc. published the module in 1987 for the D&D Master Set rules. It is part of the "M" series of modules. The module was designed by Paul...
(D&D Module:M5) (1987) - The Shattered StatueThe Shattered StatueThe Shattered Statue is an adventure module published in 1987 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:The Shattered Statue is an adventure scenario set in the Forgotten Realms...
(AD&D/DragonQuestDragonQuestDragonQuest is a fantasy role-playing game originally published by Simulations Publications in 1980. Where first generation fantasy role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons restricted players to particular character classes, DragonQuest was one of the first games to utilize a system that...
Module:DQ1) (1987) - Egg of the PhoenixEgg of the PhoenixEgg of the Phoenix is an adventure module published in 1987 for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Plot summary:...
(AD&D Module:I12) (1987) (with Frank MentzerFrank MentzerJacob Franklin "Frank" Mentzer III , is an American fantasy author and game designer best known for his work on early materials for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game. He was a performing folk musician from 1968 to 1975, and played one concert at the White House during the...
) - Castle GreyhawkCastle Greyhawk (module)Castle Greyhawk is an adventure module for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy roleplaying game, set in the game's World of Greyhawk campaign setting. The module bears the code WG7 and was published by TSR, Inc...
(AD&D Module:WG7) (1988) (co-author) - The Savage FrontierThe Savage FrontierSavage Frontier is an accessory for the Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting Forgotten Realms. It describes the Savage Frontier of Faerûn. The book was written by Paul Jaquays...
(AD&D Module:FR5) (1988) - Central Casting: Heroes of Legend (Generic Sourcebook) (1988)
- Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb GuideCampaign Sourcebook and Catacomb GuideCampaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide is an accessory for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game.-Contents:The Campaign Sourcebook and Catacomb Guide is a supplement to the Dungeon Master's Guide for the 2nd edition rules...
(AD&D 2nd edition sourcebook:DMGR1) (1990) - Citybook VI – Uptown (1992) (co-author)
- Shadows on the Borderland (Runequest Adventure) (1993) (co-author)
Partial list of video game credits
| Title | Released | System name | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donkey Kong Donkey Kong is a fictional gorilla in the Donkey Kong and Mario series. He is roughly twice the size of a normal gorilla, weighing approximately 800 pounds. Donkey Kong first appeared in Nintendo's popular 1981 video game of the same name. Since then he has appeared in over 20 games in his own series, as well... |
July 1982 | ColecoVision ColecoVision The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, and the means to expand the system's basic hardware... |
Project leader Game producer A video game producer is the person in charge of overseeing development of a video game.The earliest documented use of the term producer in games was by Trip Hawkins, who established the position when he founded Electronic Arts in 1982... , design, and graphics conversion |
| Omega Race Omega Race Omega Race is an arcade game programmed by Ron Haliburton and released in 1981 by Midway. It was the only arcade game with vector graphics Midway created.-Description:... |
1983 | ColecoVision ColecoVision The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, and the means to expand the system's basic hardware... |
Project leader, design, and graphics conversion |
| WarGames | 1984 | ColecoVision ColecoVision The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, and the means to expand the system's basic hardware... |
Project leader, gameplay co-designer |
| 4x4 Off-Road Racing 4x4 Off-Road Racing 4x4 Off-Road Racing is a video game of the racing genre released in 1988 by Epyx and developed by Odan MicroDesign. The four maps consist of Mud, Ice, Desert and Mountains.-References and Relates Sites:... |
1988 | Amstrad CPC Amstrad CPC The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8-bit home computers produced by Amstrad between 1984 and 1990. It was designed to compete in the mid-1980s home computer market dominated by the Commodore 64 and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, where it successfully established itself primarily in the United Kingdom,... , Atari ST Atari ST The Atari ST is a home/personal computer that was released by Atari Corporation in 1985 and commercially available from that summer into the early 1990s. The "ST" officially stands for "Sixteen/Thirty-two", which referred to the Motorola 68000's 16-bit external bus and 32-bit internals... , Amiga Amiga The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities... , DOS MS-DOS MS-DOS is an operating system for x86-based personal computers. It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatible personal computers during the 1980s to the mid 1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating... , Commodore 64 Commodore 64 The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer introduced by Commodore International in January 1982.Volume production started in the spring of 1982, with machines being released on to the market in August at a price of US$595... , MSX MSX MSX was the name of a standardized home computer architecture in the 1980s conceived by Kazuhiko Nishi, then Vice-president at Microsoft Japan and Director at ASCII Corporation... , ZX Spectrum ZX Spectrum The ZX Spectrum is an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research Ltd... |
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| The Bard's Tale IV | 1991–92 | (unpublished) | Rewrite and integration |
| Quake 2 | December 9, 1997 | Amiga Amiga The Amiga is a family of personal computers that was sold by Commodore in the 1980s and 1990s. The first model was launched in 1985 as a high-end home computer and became popular for its graphical, audio and multi-tasking abilities... (68k), AmigaOS 4 AmigaOS 4 AmigaOS 4, , is a line of Amiga operating systems which runs on PowerPC microprocessors. It is mainly based on AmigaOS 3.1 source code, and partially on version 3.9 developed by Haage & Partner... (PowerPC), Nintendo 64 Nintendo 64 The , often referred to as N64, was Nintendo′s third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, March 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1997 in France and December 1997 in Brazil... , Macintosh Macintosh The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a... , BeOS BeOS BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing... , Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... , Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , PlayStation PlayStation The is a 32-bit fifth-generation video game console first released by Sony Computer Entertainment in Japan on December 3, .The PlayStation was the first of the PlayStation series of consoles and handheld game devices. The PlayStation 2 was the console's successor in 2000... , Zeebo Zeebo Zeebo is a 3G-enabled entertainment and education system from Zeebo Inc. It not only enables users to play video games, but also connect to the Internet, communicate online and run educational applications. The Zeebo is targeted at developing markets such as BRIC and Mexico. Zeebo Inc... |
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| Quake III Arena Quake III Arena Quake III Arena , is a multiplayer first-person shooter video game released on December 2, 1999. The game was developed by id Software and featured music composed by Sonic Mayhem and Front Line Assembly... |
December 2, 1999 | Linux Linux Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds... , Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , IRIX IRIX IRIX is a computer operating system developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. to run natively on their 32- and 64-bit MIPS architecture workstations and servers. It was based on UNIX System V with BSD extensions. IRIX was the first operating system to include the XFS file system.The last major version... , Mac OS Mac OS Mac OS is a series of graphical user interface-based operating systems developed by Apple Inc. for their Macintosh line of computer systems. The Macintosh user experience is credited with popularizing the graphical user interface... , Dreamcast, PlayStation 2 PlayStation 2 The PlayStation 2 is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony as part of the PlayStation series. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was first released on March 4, 2000, in Japan... , Xbox Live Arcade Xbox Live Arcade Xbox Live Arcade is a type of video game download distribution available primarily in a section of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Microsoft's digital distribution network for the Xbox 360, that focuses on smaller downloadable games from both major publishers and independent game developers... |
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| Quake III: Team Arena | December 2000 | Designer and level designer | |
| Age of Empires III Age of Empires III Age of Empires III is a real-time strategy game developed by Microsoft Corporation's Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios. The Mac version was ported over and developed by Destineer's MacSoft Games and published by Destineer and MacSoft Games... |
October 18, 2005 | Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... , Windows Mobile Windows Mobile Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is... , N-Gage N-Gage (service) The N-Gage service was Nokia's mobile gaming platform that is available for several Nokia S60 smartphones. It is a follow-up to the N-Gage handheld game console. N-Gage is a part of Nokia's Ovi initiative.... |
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| Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs | March 7, 2006 | Windows Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal... , Mac OS X Mac OS X Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems... |
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| Halo Wars Halo Wars Halo Wars is a real-time strategy video game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360 video game console. It was released in Japan and Australia on February 26, 2009, in PAL territories on February 27, and in North America on March 3... |
February 26, 2009 | Xbox 360 Xbox 360 The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles... |
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External links
- Table-top roleplaying biography" on the pen-paper.net website
- Paul Jaquays at MobyGamesMobyGames-Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...