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Matt Forbeck has worked full-time in the adventure game industry since 1989, when he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Creative Writing. With the exception of a four-year stint as the president of Pinnacle Entertainment Group, he freelanced for most of that time. Nearly all of the leading companies in the industry have published Matt’s work, including Wizards of the Coast,… Read moreMatt Forbeck has worked full-time in the adventure game industry since 1989, when he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Creative Writing. With the exception of a four-year stint as the president of Pinnacle Entertainment Group, he freelanced for most of that time. Nearly all of the leading companies in the industry have published Matt’s work, including Wizards of the Coast, Games Workshop, Playmates Toys, Mattel, TSR, Decipher, White Wolf, Pinnacle, Green Ronin, AEG, Reaper Miniatures, Image Comics, WildStorm Productions, Idea + Design Works, Human Head Studios, and many others.
Matt has designed collectible card games, roleplaying games, miniatures games, and board games, and has written short fiction, comic books, and novels. His work has been translated into French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish
Matt is a proud member of the Alliterates, a group of fiction writers and game designers, all of who have been published by TSR or Wizards of the Coast. He also belongs to the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers and the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design.
Projects Matt has worked on have been nominated for 23 Origins Awards and won 12. This includes the Best Roleplaying Game for Deadlands and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game, Best Miniatures Rules for Warzone and The Great Rail Wars, Best Roleplaying Adventure for Independence Day, Best Fantasy Board Game for Genestealer, and Best Short Story for “Prometheus Unwound” from The Book of All Flesh. He has also won five ENnies.
Matt lives in Beloit, Wisconsin, with his wife Ann and their children: Marty, Pat, Nick, Ken, and Helen.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Doug and Mike do their regular wonderful job with this book. Their knowledge of WWII history is unparalleled, and they tackle the idea of an invasion of Japan with as much imagination as found in any of Doug's numerous fantasy novels. It's great to see such WWII enthusiasts playing around in one of the biggest sandboxes in history and coming up with such a compelling tale.
They do a great job at both the strategic and tactical level. The scenes with the heavies of WWII (Hirohito, Roosevelt, MacArthur, etc.) ring true and humanize these legends, giving them strong, realistic motivations. At the same time, they take pains to show how the war affects the regular joes and GIs,… Read more
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