Erick A Wujcik was an American designer of both pen-and-paper and computer role-playing games, and co-founder of Palladium Books.
26 Facts About Erick Wujcik
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Erick Wujcik published the science-fiction adventure Sector 57 under the banner of the Detroit Gaming Center.
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Erick Wujcik worked as a computer columnist for The Detroit News where he wrote their weekly "Computer Column" from 1979 to 1981.
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Erick Wujcik designed Revised Recon, a role-playing game revision of the miniatures warfare game Recon.
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Erick Wujcik did freelance work for West End Games, and wrote one of the early Clones in Space adventure for the Paranoia roleplaying game, and made contributions to the Acute Paranoia supplement for the game as well.
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Erick Wujcik began developing the game for R T rian Games in the early 1990s, but encountered creative differences there as well.
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Siembieda encouraged Erick Wujcik to set up his own company to publish the game, and Erick Wujcik founded Phage Press.
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Erick Wujcik hired his cousins Lisa and Ron Seymour to run the business side of the company.
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Erick Wujcik did not like the manuscripts submitted for the Amber supplement Shadow Knight, so he rewrote the book on his own.
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James Wallis brought his Bugtown game to Phage to be produced, but creative differences with Erick Wujcik led Wallis to pull out of Phage in 1994 and start Hogshead Publishing.
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In 1996, Erick Wujcik was able to convince Bugtown creator Matt Howarth to license the rights back to him, although Erick Wujcik never actually published a game based on the comic.
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Erick Wujcik was the founder of the gaming convention known as Ambercon.
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Erick Wujcik served as a game designer at Outrage Entertainment for the game Alter Echo.
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Erick Wujcik served as chief editor of Amberzine, a fanzine for the Amber Diceless Roleplaying Game, publishing the work of such notables as Ray Bradbury, Henry Kuttner, and Roger Zelazny.
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Erick Wujcik was an editorial contractor for the Detroit Historical Museum, and gave seminars on a wide range of topics related to the writing, design and development of role-playing games.
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Erick Wujcik wrote the books Rifts China 1 and Rifts China 2.
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Erick Wujcik licensed the Amber Diceless Role-playing rights to the company Guardians of Order in late 2004.
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From 2004 to 2006, Erick Wujcik was Game Design Studio Manager for UbiSoft China, in Shanghai.
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Erick Wujcik was Adjunct Assistant Professor of Game Design at Hong Kong Polytechnic University between 2003 and 2008.
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Until his death in June 2008, Erick Wujcik was Senior Game Designer and Writer for Totally Games, located in Marin County, California.
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On December 22,2007, it was announced that Erick Wujcik had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
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Until a few weeks ago, Erick Wujcik was healthy and doing fine.
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Erick Wujcik was enjoying his work at Totally Games, a videogame company, when he thought he had come down with the flu.
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Erick Wujcik entered hospice care in his home in San Rafael, California.
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I'm sorry to report that Erick Wujcik is quite ill now and suffering from the consequences of a failing liver.
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Erick Wujcik was inducted into the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design Hall of Fame by the Game Manufacturers Association at the 37th Origins Awards on June 25,2011.