Skaff Elias is a game designer.
Skaff Elias | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Game designer |
Career
editSkaff Elias started working on Magic: The Gathering at Wizards of the Coast when the company was still fairly new.[1]: 287 He was one of the designers for various Magic sets, including Arabian Nights (December 1993),[2] Antiquities (March 1994),[3] Legends (June 1994),[3] Fallen Empires (November 1994),[4] and Ice Age (June 1995),[4] Mark Rosewater also credits Skaff Elias with the invention of the Magic Pro Tour.[5]
Elias was responsible for the design work on the Chainmail miniatures game.[1]: 289 Elias and Richard Garfield designed an MMORPG based on Dungeons & Dragons, which was never published because Hasbro sold the D&D computer game rights to Infogrames.[1]: 290
He co-authored the D&D manual Miniatures Handbook (2003).
Elias and Garfield also worked on Mind Twist, a free-to-play strategy game from Mind Control Software.[6]
In 2022, Nerdlab Games published Mindbug, a dueling card game designed by Elias, Garfield, Christian Kudahl, and Marvin Hegen.[citation needed]
References
edit- ^ a b c Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
- ^ Elias, Skaff (9 August 2002). "Better Late Than Never". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009. Retrieved 2009-10-16.
- ^ a b Elias, Skaff (8 March 2002). "Legendary Difficulties". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on January 14, 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ a b Rosewater, Mark (9 February 2009). "Whatever Happened to Barry's Land?". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on February 13, 2009. Retrieved 26 February 2011.
- ^ Rosewater, Mark (26 July 2004). "On Tour, Part 1". Wizards of the Coast. Archived from the original on October 19, 2008. Retrieved 11 January 2008.
- ^ http://mind-control.com/news.php?articleID=39 [bare URL]
External links
edit- "Skaff Elias :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on March 19, 2005.