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Erick
Wujcik
Game Designer
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Education:
Wayne State University, 16 years an undergraduate and still going
strong…
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Previous
Work Experience:
- PyroTechnix, Sierra Studios, 1999, Lead Game Designer on "Return
to Krondor," and the cancelled, never-to-be-completed, best computer-role-playing-game-of-all-time,
"Blood of Krondor."
- Phage Press, 1990 to present, Game Designer/Writer, "Amber
Diceless Role-Playing" and "Shadow Knight," from Phage
Press, as well as Editor of "Amberzine.".
- Palladium Books, 1984 to present, Game Designer/Writer, "Mystic
China," "Ninjas & Superspies," "Teenage Mutant
Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness," "Advanced
RECON," "Dragons & Gods," and a whole lot of other
role-playing books. West End Games, way back in the 1980's,
"Clones in Space" and "Acute Paranoia."
- Detroit Historical Museum. See "Links" below.
- The Detroit News, "computer columnist" for about a decade.
- Other menial jobs too numerous to mention…
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Hobbies:
- Game Mastering and playing face-to-face role-playing games
- Evolutionary Computing
- International Travel, most recently to China.
- Reading Science Fiction books and short stories (Greg Bear, Greg
Egan, Walter Jon Williams, etc.) along with the occasional outstanding
fantasy (yeah, George R.R. Martin & "Game of Thrones!").
- Gaming Conventions, plus the occasional Science Fiction WorldCon.
- Listening to interesting radio (see "The Great Eastern"
link below). I tape everything from "Prairie Home Companion"
with Garrison Keeler, to "This American Life," to
"Loveline" with Adam & Dr. Drew, and play 'em back during
my frequent commutes.
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Place
of Birth/Places You have lived:
Mostly Detroit, with a year-long stint in Cincinnati.
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Five
Things You Can't Live Without:
1. Apollinaris, "The Queen of Table Waters," a bottled
sparkling water from Germany that I really can't live without.
2. Eddie Bauer,
mostly for down coats (hey, I live in Michigan!) but I wear a lot of
their other fine garments.
3. Multiple
Computers, both Mac and PC, of varying vintages.
4. My
subscription to "New Scientist," the best science magazine in
the world, and my all-time favorite periodical.
5. Tie: My car's
audiocassette player/tuna fish sandwiches on imported German bread.
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Favorite
Games:
Check out the other guys for computer games (although I do like
"StarCraft").
Here's my favorite non-electronic entertainment "Acquire,"
the world's best board game.
"Amber Diceless Role-Playing," 'cause I wrote it, and I love
playing it.
"Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing,"
"Mystic China"
and "After the Bomb" from Palladium Books.
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Favorite
Quotes:
“We invented the future! We built it! And if they could design or market
it a little better than we could, then we just invented something else
more amazing yet. If it took imagination, we always had that. If it
took enterprise, we always had it. If it took daring and even
ruthlessness, we had it-we not only built the atomic bomb, we used it!
We're not some crowd of pious, sniveling, red-green Europeans trying to
make the world safe for boutiques! We're not some swarm of Confucian
social engineers who would love to watch the masses chop cotton for the
next two millennia! We are a nation of hands-on cosmic mechanics!”
…what it means to be an American, page 90 in Distraction, by
Bruce Sterling, 1998, Bantam Spectra
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Favorite
Links:
If you
only follow one of my links, make it this one. It archives the first three
years of the best, most sophisticated comedy ever created, "The
Great Eastern." We who are fans daily mourn its loss. May you have
the supreme pleasure of discovering it for the first time. http://frigate.ce.mun.ca:8080/great/
Here's
a couple of links to the finest in face-to-face role-playing games, my own Amber Diceless Role-Playing:
http://www.ambercons.com/
http://www.phagepress.com/
I
was the Project Manager for the Detroit Historical Museum's website,
and you can find some of my work in the "Virtual Tours"
Section, under "Glimpses of Michigan's Past." http://www.detroithistorical.com/
You
can check out my various books from Palladium, as well as
(occasionally) seeing my responses on the Message Boards: http://www.palladiumbooks.com/
Best
cartoon on the internet: http://www.sinfest.net/
Get
your own fax number, and receive faxes through your e-mail, all for
free The best deal in the world: http://www.efax.com/
My
buddy, Walter Jon Williams, one of the best writers working today. Be
sure to read "Metropolitan," and then the sequel, "City
on Fire." http://www.thuntek.net/~walter/
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