Your game company dream team

Dominus Nox · March 15, 2007, 10:08:27 PM

Ok, one of your relatives wins the lottery and you get a few million $ of it. You decide to start a game company.

Who would you hire for it?

I'd like Sean Punch, Dave Pulver, Gregg Porter and Sandy Petersen.

(Funny as hell that their last names all start with P, isn't it?)

So who would you have as your game company dream team?

Edit: One I forgot to mention was Barry Nakazano

peteramthor · March 15, 2007, 10:14:58 PM

I would hire John Wick to write a Cyberpunk game. The way he builds the story into his larger games (L5R and 7th Sea) is great, would love to seem handle that in a cyberpunk world.

Jason Blair to do whatever game he wanted to.

Then buy the rights to Kult.

Ronin · March 15, 2007, 10:17:57 PM

David Pulver and Erick Wujcik.

Dr Rotwang! · March 15, 2007, 10:19:43 PM

S. John Ross, Chris Engle and Greg Costikyan would suddenly be together at a fancy restaurant, dining with a goofball in a pink tie, and each would get a buncha buncha money to write whatever the hell he wants.

David R · March 15, 2007, 11:20:58 PM

Although it wold probably end up like something out of The Hudsucker Proxy I'd throw a bunch of designers together and let them design anything they want.

The List :

Clash Bowley

John Tynes

GMS

Malcolm Sheppard

Jonathan Tweet

Mike Pondsmith

Greg Stolze

Eric Wujcik

and I'm sure there are some I missed out.

Overseeing this clusterfuck would be JimBob

Edit: Oh yeah, and I'd commission a diceless Supers rpg but with a trad GM/Player dynamic from TonyLB

Regards,
David R

David Johansen · March 16, 2007, 12:39:46 AM

Tom Meir
Mark Copplestone
The Perry Brothers

a really top notch plastics engineer

I'm talking about modular action figures with interchangable parts and the joints all hidden by sleeves, wrist bands and so on. And the parts are even multi coloured so you don't have to paint them.

I'll write the games.

Illustrators

John Blanche
Ian Miller
Jack Kirby.
Angus McBride

Jack'll and John will do the pencils and Ian will ink the illustrations. Angus will do the paintings. Ohhhhhh yeah!

Koltar · March 16, 2007, 12:46:59 AM

Jack Kirby died.

Who are you going to get to be a friendly necromancer - so he can be an artist for you ?

- Ed C.

David Johansen · March 16, 2007, 12:56:18 AM

I'll just get the guy who does Godland (was it Godland?) he does a passable Kirby impression.

Necromantic Kirby would be fun but I've already got Ian Miller and John Blanche for depressing, angsty stuff.

Koltar · March 16, 2007, 01:05:06 AM

For anyone confused by the old-fart comic book fan geek-talk .... A Bio on Jack Krirby : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Kirby

- E.W.C.

Pierce Inverarity · March 16, 2007, 02:08:05 AM

First, I'd buy a villa in Beverly Hills.

Then, I'd pay Marc Miller whatever he wants for the rights to T5.

Then, I'd pay Greg Porter whatever he wants for setting up his funky tent on my lawn.

Then, I'd sit by the pool sipping Daiquiris while Greg designs T5.

There will only be one T5 edition. The special edition. Black metal ringbinders, only artwork is on the cover (Suleiman class), and of course line drawings for all the guns.

Greg knows I don't like catpeople, so the Aslan goners. Actually, the last Aslan shot the last Vargr. Who shot the last Emperor.

Consonant Dude · March 16, 2007, 06:54:50 AM

Spending my Monopoly money, baby!

Jonathan Tweet
Greg Porter
Aaron Allston
L. Richard Baker III
John Tynes
David Pulver
Jesse Scoble
Greg Stolze
Brett Bernstein
Gary Gygax
Mark Smylie
Jesper Myrfors
Gerald Brom
Storn Cook
Christopher Shy
Todd Lockwood
Samuel Araya
Toren Atkinson

Balbinus · March 16, 2007, 07:26:48 AM

Well, either just S John Ross, or:

John Tynes,
Dennis Detwiller,
Greg Stolze,
David Pulver and of course
Jim Holloway on artwork.

jrients · March 16, 2007, 11:11:49 AM

I put some of the money into hiring a detective to locate Tom Moldvay, who would then be hired to write the D&D Companion rules promised in the 81' Expert set. Erol Otus would do the cover, of course. I'd pay Wizards for a license to do a limited print run and send free copies to my friends and other interested parties.

If I had a really large amount of dough on hand I'd set up a foundation that holds a trust fund. Each year the foundation would take a portion of the earnings of the fund and hand out checks to game designers and other creative types in the industry. This would be an award for good work already done, sort of a Nobel Prize for game designers.

SgtSpaceWizard · March 16, 2007, 03:05:39 PM

My first pick would be Greg Costikyan (good call, Rotwang! I just wish he was still into PNP instead of this video game fad...)

I would also hire:

Jeff Dee
Tom Wham
Erol Otus
Ken St Andre
Dave Arneson
Steve Jackson
Greg Stafford

I read on Michael Moorcocks website that he had an RPG design even though he wasnt really into RPGs per se. Wonder what his price would be to cough that baby up?

Also I would sit at huge desk in a ten gallon hat most of my days, listening to pitches from aspiring game designers as I blow smoke from cuban cigars in their faces like a Hollywood producer...

Calithena · March 16, 2007, 03:20:53 PM

There are a lot of great people already mentioned in this thread. With infinite resources, I would

- buy the D&D name from Hasbro

- start with the Mentzer boxed sets

- hire Jonathan Tweet and Ken St. Andre to rewrite them to my specifications (i.e. I'd be lead designer, and they'd help me with a couple mechanical issues I haven't quite figured out)

- release D&D 4th edition boxed sets, with art by Frank Frazetta and Erol Otus

If it were just a matter of paying cool people to follow their inspiration, I'd have a much different list, but this is the game design project I want to get done.