Gamescience
{{Short description|American game company}}
{{For|the video game developer that produced Black Myth: Wukong|Game Science}}
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| industry = Game publisher, Game supplies
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| founded = {{Start date and age|1974}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.gamescience.com/About-Us_ep_7.html|title=About Us!}}
| founder = Lou Zocchi
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| hq_location_city = Bardstown, KY{{Cite web|url=https://gamescience-com.3dcartstores.com/crm.asp?action=contactus|title = Welcome to Gamescience® - Made in America since 1974. Keep Rollin'}}
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| website = http://www.gamescience.com
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Gamescience is an American game company that produces role-playing games and game supplements.
History
Gamescience Corp. was started by Phillip E. Orbanes in 1965.{{Cite web|title = Philip Orbanes -- Lippincott Massie McQuilkin -- Literary Agents|url = http://www.lmqlit.com/author-display.php?art=Philip+Orbanes|website = www.lmqlit.com|accessdate = 2015-11-01}} In that year, the company published the wargame Vietnam which was reviewed in issue #4 of Strategy and Tactics (S&T) magazine. In 1967 the company published another wargame which Orbanes designed called Confrontation, which was reviewed in S&T issue #6. In 1968, the company published the wargame, The Battle of Britain designed by Lou Zocchi, which was reviewed in S&T #13. The company was sold before Orbanes left college.{{cn|date=November 2015}}
Gamescience was founded by Lou Zocchi.{{citation |title=The Comprehensive Guide to Board Wargaming |author=Nicholas Palmer |year=1977}}
Gamescience published the board game The Battle of Britain (1968), the wargames MiG Killers (1977), and Strike Team Alpha (1978), and the role-playing games Star Patrol (1977; originally called Space Patrol), Superhero: 2044 (1977), the second edition of Empire of the Petal Throne (1984), and TWERPS (1987).
Gamescience also produces dice, including several types of nonstandard dice.