Jordan Weisman

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Jordan Weisman in August 2006

Jordan Weisman (* 1961 ) is an American entrepreneur and designer of role and computer games . He founded the companies FASA Corporation , WizKids , Smith & Tinker and Harebrained Schemes , through which he was involved in the development of the tabletop rulebooks Shadowrun , BattleTech , Crimson Skies and several related computer games.

Career

Weisman founded FASA Corporation in 1980 with L. Ross Babcock with starting capital of $ 350 . FASA stood for Freedonian Aeronautics and Space Administration, an allusion to a fictional country in the film The Marx Brothers at War . The studio developed tabletop and role-playing rules, including the official role-playing game for Star Trek and the self-developed brands Shadowrun and BattleTech . In 1994 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design, host of the Origins Awards . In 1996 he founded the development studio FASA Interactive, which should take care of the software implementation of FASA's licenses. In 1999 FASA Interactive was sold to Microsoft. Weisman thus became Creative Director for Microsoft's games division for the next two years. In 2000 he founded the company WizKids, which initially specialized in tabletop miniatures, and in 2007 the game developer Smith & Tinker . In 2011 he founded the computer game developer Harebrained Schemes with former FASA studio manager Mitch Gitelman , which was taken over by the Swedish publisher Paradox Interactive in 2018 .

Awards

  • 1994 Hall of Fame of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design ( Origins Award )
  • 1998 Origins Award - Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game (for Crimson Skies , with Michael A. Stackpole )
  • 2003 Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming
  • 2014 Origins Award - Best Miniature Figure Rules (for Golem Arcana , together with Mike Mulvihill and Brian Poel)

Web links

Commons : Jordan Weisman  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dragon Fathers: The Interviews
  2. ^ John Keefer: GameSpy Retro: Developer Origins . GameSpy . March 31, 2006. Archived from the original on June 9, 2007. Retrieved November 23, 2016.
  3. ↑ http://www.originsawards.net/hall-of-fame/
  4. ↑ Microsoft's checkered history of gaming acquisitions, from Bungie to Minecraft . In: polygon . ( polygon.com [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Tom Dowd: Storytelling Across Worlds: Transmedia for Creatives and Producers, CRC Press 2015, p. 195
  6. ↑ Leigh Alexander: Smith and Tinker Announces Piranha Games Developing MechWarrior . ( gamasutra.com [accessed October 17, 2018]).
  7. ↑ Paradox buying BattleTech studio Harebrained Schemes . In: Rock Paper Shotgun . ( rockpapershotgun.com [accessed October 17, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Weisman, Jordan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American entrepreneur and designer of role and computer games
DATE OF BIRTH 1961