Adam Jury

Adam Jury is a Canadian game designer and graphic designer working in the hobby games industry. He is the co-founder of Posthuman Studios.

History

Adam Jury is a graphic designer.^[1]^: 337 He began his career as a freelance writer working with FASA Corporation on the Shadowrun roleplaying game in 2000, and moved to a design and layout role when he began working for Guardians of Order (GoO) full-time in 2002.

Jury took over working on the licensed Big Eyes, Small Mouth supplements in 2002 from Jeff Mackintosh, and Uresia: Grave of Heaven (2003) is one of the earlier books that included art from Jury.^[1]^: 337 In 2004, when GoO began scaling down their operations and output, Jury helped GoO finish and publish some of their last products while returning to work as a freelancer with other publishers

While working as a graphic designer at Catalyst Game Labs, Jury created the game design studio Posthuman Studios in 2009 with Rob Boyle and Shadowrun writer Brian Cross.^[1]^: 437 He resigned from Catalyst in March 2010.^[1]^: 437

Jury works primarily with FanPro on Shadowrun and Classic BattleTech (a revised edition of the classic miniatures game), as well as pursuing a number of original projects.

Awards

Jury has worked on several award-winning or nominated products, including the following:

Dreaming Cities - nominated for an ENnie Award in 2005
A Game of Thrones RPG - nominated for ENnie Awards in multiple categories in 2006; Runner-Up for Best Game award.
Shadowrun, Fourth Edition - winner of ENnie Awards for Best Game and Best Rules in 2006.^[2]

Jury was the gaming guest of honor at MechaCon in July 2009.^[3]

Notable works

Eclipse Phase, an RPG about transhumanism and existential horror in a post apocalyptic future.
A Game of Thrones RPG
Big Eyes, Small Mouth 3rd edition
Dreaming Cities
Ex Machina RPG
Shadowrun, Fourth Edition
Battletech, Total Warfare
Tri-Stat dX

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
^ "Dreamstimemaximum_3277513 – ENNIE Awards".
^ "Adam Jury at MechaCon, 24–26 July". 8 July 2009. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014.

External links

[designers-1] Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

[2] "Dreamstimemaximum_3277513 – ENNIE Awards".

[3] "Adam Jury at MechaCon, 24–26 July". 8 July 2009. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014.

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