Adam Jury
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
[edit]Adam Jury is a graphic designer.[1]: 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.[1]: 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.[1]: 437 He resigned from Catalyst in March 2010.[1]: 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
[edit]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.[2]
Jury was the gaming guest of honor at MechaCon in July 2009.[3]
Notable works
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ a b c d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ "Dreamstimemaximum_3277513 – ENNIE Awards".
- ^ "Adam Jury at MechaCon, 24–26 July". 8 July 2009. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014.