Joshua A.C. Newman

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Joshua A.C. Newman is a role-playing game designer.

Career[]

Newman is the designer of the Indie role-playing games (2005), Shock: Social Science Fiction (2006), (2008), (2010), and (2016). His publishing imprint is called the glyphphress.

In 2012, Joshua A.C. Newman worked with Vincent Baker in a new iteration of the rules called (2012); this was then used by Newman as the basis of a successful Kickstarter.^[1] Rapid Attack was followed by , a carrier-based spaceship battle game in the same universe.

Personal life[]

He resides in Northampton, Massachusetts,^{[citation needed]} where he is also a book and graphic designer.^{[citation needed]} He teaches game design at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences.^{[citation needed]} He also teaches in an alternative high school in Holyoke, Massachusetts.^{[citation needed]}

The homepage of the glyphpress leads to Newman's blog, xenoglyph, concerned with many forms of speculative art and design, not limited to games.

Roleplaying bibliography[]

• Shock: Social Science Fiction

Newman has also contributed to the book design of several other indie roleplaying games.

• Dogs in the Vineyard
• The Mountain Witch

References[]

External links[]

• the glyphpress home page, featuring the xenoglyph blog
• the glyphpress Forum on The Forge

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