Gareth-Michael Skarka

Gareth-Michael Skarka
Nationality American
Occupation Game designer

Gareth-Michael Skarka is an e-book author[1] and game designer who founded Adamant Entertainment and has worked primarily on e-published role-playing games.

Career

Gareth-Michael Skarka's cinematic Hong Kong Action Theatre! (1996) was first published by the small-press RPG company Event Horizon Productions.[2]:336 Skarka co-authored the swashbuckling Skull & Bones (2003) campaign background for Green Ronin Publishing's Mythic Vistas series.[2]:372 Based in Lawrence, Kansas, Skarka started his company Adamant Entertainment in 2003, publishing material almost entirely for the electronic market, and with a focus on role-playing games.[2]:430[1] Skarka later supported Skull & Bones by his own Adamant Entertainment.[2]:372 When regular Cubicle 7 editor Dominic McDowall-Thomas was busy with a consultancy contract, Skarka stepped in to edit Starblazer Adventures (2008).[2]:428

Adamant Entertainment has designed licensed role-playing downloads for Doctor Who and Star Trek along with original worlds.

Unreleased transmedia game

In 2011, Skarka ran a Kickstarter campaign which attracted $49,324 in funding for development and publication of his Far West role-playing game, and had regularly posted updates to his Kickstarter after missing deadlines.[3] Far West was intended as a transmedia project including a fiction collection (Tales of the Far West, published in e-book format 30 January 2012) and a role-playing game (Far West Adventure Game, intended for release in December 2011 and still unreleased years later).

References

  1. 1 2 Svensson, Peter (December 4, 2007). "Slow-Starting E-Books Find Niche Markets". The Washington Post. Associated Press. Retrieved February 16, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.
  3. ↑ Helton, Christopher (2015). "The Federal Trade Commission Takes Action Against Board Game Kickstarter". Bleedingcool.com. Bleeding Cool News. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
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