Credits List for Steve Perrin

For Interplay Productions of Irvine, California June 1995 to August 1997

• Wrote film scripts, designed scenarios, and developed manual for Starfleet Academy
• Designed game play parameters and levels for Descent to Undermountain,
• Wrote incidental material for Conquest of the New World
• Wrote background and scenario designs for M.A.X.. and M.A.X. 2 and Alien Intelligence

For Maxis—Fall 1992 and Fall 1994

• Worked as playtester for simulation games SimAnt and SimCity 2000
• Wrote background material for SimFarm manual.

For Spectrum HoloByte (Now Owned by Infogrames)September 1989 to May 1991

Employed full time as technical writer and sometime designer. Wrote manuals for:

• Tank
• Welltris
• Flight of the Intruder
• Designed missions and some game parameters for
• Tank,
• Falcon 3.0.
• Canceled (after I left) projects A-10 Avenger, Sphere of Influence, "Evolution"

For Chaosium Inc. May 1981—February 1985

• Created and wrote several games (RuneQuest, Stormbringer, Worlds of Wonder, Elfquest, Superworld)
• Contributed to other game products (Thieves World, Call of Cthulhu)
• Edited and evaluated outside game submissions and developed new proposals with potential contributors.
• Demonstrated the company's products at conventions (training customers in how to play),

Freelance Writer/Editor—Dates not listed above

Clients included:

• Quickstart Technologies—Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine (article editing),
• Hero Software (initial scenario design for Champions computer game, which lamentably eventually got shelved)
• Interplay, Castles storylines
• Mindscape/Strategic Simulations Inc., Pool of Radiance manual, Dragonlore background manual, playtesting Soldiers at War and Fighting Steel
• Ybarra Productions, Spellcraft (for ASCII) design features, manual
 

• Plus paper game publishers
• TSR Inc (Now Wizards of the Coast) (about seven books including Under Illefarn and Fires of Dis.),
• FASA (Shadowrun sourcebook for California Free State)
• Iron Crown Enterprises of Virginia (writing and editing on several Hero Games projects, including design of Robot Warriors )
• West End Games of Pennsylvania (Haunted House adventure pack for reissue of Ghostbusters game—a project that died when Ghostbusters II flopped)
Sold script (Hard Knights Day) to DIC Enterprises of Hollywood for Real Ghostbusters cartoon show and wrote six issues of comic book Marksman for Heroic Publishing.