Gareth-Michael Skarka
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame 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, but still incomplete as of the 10th anniversary of the project’s successful funding). Skarka maintains that he intends to release the product [4] despite the fact that no progress has been demonstrated for over a decade.[5]

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.
  4. ↑ Skarka, Gareth (2021). "Official Far West Blog". intothefarwest.com. Retrieved 2021-02-22.
  5. ↑ "Far West Delivery Dates". 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-30.
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