Mike Young (game designer)

Mike Young
OccupationGame designer

Mike Young is an American game designer, author, and founder of the first independent professional LARP publishing house, "Interactivities Ink".

Works

Young's works include co-authorship of Rules to Live By (RTLB), one of the few published generic (non-license, not from tabletop) LARP systems. He has also published several LARPs, card games, and contributed short pieces to the professional LARP journal Metagame from 1989 through 1999.[1] His The Galactic Emperor is Dead LARP was sold to Skotos Inc for their online game play.[2]

Young's Tales From the Floating Vagabond 1 (1990), Tales From the Floating Vagabond 2 (1992), and Tales From the Floating Vagabond Square Root of Pi (1997) were officially licensed LARPs run in the Tales from the Floating Vagabond RPG setting originally published by Avalon Hill. The first two were run with the creator of Tales from the Floating Vagabond, Lee Garvin.

He has also authored computer games (from Alien Software), including the Neophyte series. He is credited on Legend Entertainment's Callahan's Crosstime Saloon [3] and Blackstone Chronicles.[4] He is also credited as a level designer and developer for Icebreaker from Magnet Interactive Studios.

Young has also published three card games, one of which, Hamlet: A Game In Five Acts, won an award in the Polycon Independent Game Design Contest.[5]

In addition to designing games and LARP punditry, Young works for Biap Systems as a computer programmer. He was the lead developer for NBC Olympics Now, which was nominated for a 2007 Technology and Engineering Emmy Award in the category of "Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Content."[6] He has also had two entries published in the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest.[7][8]

References

  • Rice, Scott (1986). Son of "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" (1st ed.). New York, NY: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-008839-3.
  • Rice, Scott (1988). Bride of Dark and Stormy (1st ed.). New York, NY: Penguin. ISBN 014010304X.

Notes

  1. ↑ Untitled Document Archived 2007-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Trials, Triumphs and Trivialities Article
  3. ↑ Callahan's Crosstime Saloon for Windows - MobyGames
  4. ↑ John Saul's Blackstone Chronicles: An Adventure in Terror for Windows - MobyGames
  5. ↑ PolyCon - Home of Gaming on the Central Coast
  6. ↑ "Technology & Engineering Emmy Award Nominees Announced". Archived from the original on 2009-04-22. Retrieved 2006-11-29.
  7. ↑ Scott Rice, "Son of It Was A Dark and Stormy Night", Penguin Books, 1986, p. 24.
  8. ↑ Scott Rice, "Bride of Dark and Stormy", Penguin Books, 1988, p. 53.
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