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 Jury 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 work on the licensed Big Eyes, Small Mouth books from Jeff Mackintosh in 2002, and Uresia: Grave of Heaven (2003) is one of the earlier books featuring Jury's art.[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 new game design studio Posthuman Studios in 2009 with Rob Boyle and Shadowrun writer Brian Cross.[1]:437 Jury resigned from Catalyst in early 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

Adam 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

References
  1. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. http://www.ennie-awards.com/blog/?page_id=1371
  3. "Adam Jury at MechaCon, 24–26 July". 8 July 2009. Archived from the original on 3 November 2014.
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