Adam Jury
{{Short description|Canadian game designer}}
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Adam Jury is a Canadian game designer and graphic designer working in the hobby games industry. He is the co-founder of Posthuman Studios.
History
Adam Jury is a graphic designer.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|337}} He began his career as a freelance writer working with FASA Corporation on the Shadowrun roleplaying game in 2000, and moved to a design and layout role when he began working for Guardians of Order (GoO) full-time in 2002.
Jury took over working on the licensed Big Eyes, Small Mouth supplements in 2002 from Jeff Mackintosh, and Uresia: Grave of Heaven (2003) is one of the earlier books that included art from Jury.{{rp|337}} In 2004, when GoO began scaling down their operations and output, Jury helped GoO finish and publish some of their last products while returning to work as a freelancer with other publishers
While working as a graphic designer at Catalyst Game Labs, Jury created the game design studio Posthuman Studios in 2009 with Rob Boyle and Shadowrun writer Brian Cross.{{rp|437}} He resigned from Catalyst in March 2010.{{rp|437}}
Jury works primarily with FanPro on Shadowrun and Classic BattleTech (a revised edition of the classic miniatures game), as well as pursuing a number of original projects.
Awards
Jury has worked on several award-winning or nominated products, including the following:
- Dreaming Cities - nominated for an ENnie Award in 2005
- A Game of Thrones RPG - nominated for ENnie Awards in multiple categories in 2006; Runner-Up for Best Game award.
- Shadowrun, Fourth Edition - winner of ENnie Awards for Best Game and Best Rules in 2006.{{Cite web|url=http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/?page_id=1371|title = Dreamstimemaximum_3277513 – ENNIE Awards}}
Jury was the gaming guest of honor at MechaCon in July 2009.{{cite web|url=http://old.shadowrun4.com/wordpress/2009/07/adam-jury-at-mechacon-july-24th-26th/ |title=Adam Jury at MechaCon, 24–26 July|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103003841/http://old.shadowrun4.com/wordpress/2009/07/adam-jury-at-mechacon-july-24th-26th/ |archivedate=3 November 2014 |date=8 July 2009}}
Notable works
- Eclipse Phase, an RPG about transhumanism and existential horror in a post apocalyptic future.
- A Game of Thrones RPG
- Big Eyes, Small Mouth 3rd edition
- Dreaming Cities
- Ex Machina RPG
- Shadowrun, Fourth Edition
- Battletech, Total Warfare
- Tri-Stat dX
References
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External links
- [http://adamjury.com/ Official website]
- [http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=2974 Adam Jury :: Pen & Paper RPG Database] [https://web.archive.org/web/20050211225617/http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=2974 archive]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20061018202912/http://www.gamingreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=160 Shadowrun, Fourth Edition Review] from Ken Hite
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Category:Canadian graphic designers
Category:Canadian video game designers
Category:Role-playing game designers