Paul Czege
| Paul Czege | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer, game designer |
| Genre | Role-playing games |
Paul Czege is a designer of tabletop role-playing games and with My Life With Master wrote one of only four role-playing games to win the Diana Jones award.[1] He is also the originator of the Czege Principle that states "when one person is the author of both the character's adversity and its resolution, play isn't fun."[2]
Biography
Game design
Paul Czege was a member of The Forge, and later became an indie publisher.[3]:407 Paul Czege is one of the more influential game designers who started developing games at The Forge[4] and is considered simultaneously one of the most prolific and one of the least prolific designers from that movement as he released nine games over a period of six years, but only fully published My Life With Master, releasing the rest for free.[5] Czege's My Life with Master (2004) won the fourth Diana Jones Aware at GenCon in 2004.[3]:408
Games
- The World, the Flesh, and the Devil
- Nicotine Girls - Player characters in the game are 16 to 19 year-old females.[6] It was awarded with the 2002 Indie RPG award for Best Free Game.[7]
- My Life with Master
- The Valedictorian’s Death
- Bacchanal
- Specimen for the Resurrection
- Acts of Evil (released incomplete)
- The Niche Engine
- Honeydew
- Thy Vernal Chieftains.
- The Clay that Woke
References
- ↑ 2004 Winner - Diana Jones Award
- ↑ Lumpley Games discussion
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ↑ InterNosCon 2011 Guest of Honour profile
- ↑ Small Press, Big Game #6: Paul Czege - RPG.net column
- ↑ "Nicotine Girls - Hold on to Your Dreams". Half Meme Press. Retrieved 2009-01-09.
- ↑ "Free Indie RPG of The Year". Indie RPG Awards. Retrieved 2009-01-09.