Michael
Michael has developed two simulations for DARPA contracts. An IT Manager and former art director, he is responsible for most of the photography and layout for OSS’s recent releases. He has designed a dozen board and card games. He is also relentlessly evil.
Favorite Games: Dune, Air Force/Dauntless, Poker
Embarrassing Favorite: Star Fleet Battles
SYDNEY
Sydney is a struggling post-graduate-for-hire who specializes in Animal Behavior and Welfare. Spends her days developing her skills in public speaking, hiking with her dog, practicing Spanish & French, and volunteering at the Smithsonian Zoo Hospital. You can find her here doing post production work, model building, and playtesting. The dog is there to supervise so she does her work!
Favorite Games: The Game of Life, Warframe, Halo series, and The Sims
Embarrassing Favorite: All the horse-related Barbie Video Games (e.g. Riding Club, Race and Ride, Horse Adventures)
Nate
Nate is guy who doesn't like to write his own bio and likes to keep people guessing. Is he on the lamb, running from the long arm of the law? Is he a top secret government agent? Maybe he's an alien in human form, come to observe our entertainment choices. Maybe he's all of those things. We'll never know because he ain't talkin'
Favorite Games: We're guessing Chutes and Ladders, LDS Church History Game, maybe Telepathy (yes those are all real games)
Embarrassing Favorite: Groop Loop (1978)
Kara
Kara is another tech guru in an organization filled with tech gurus. She splits her gaming time between computer and real-world options and is currently a DM for an 8-player party. She admits that she once worked as a nightclub DJ.
Favorite Games: D&D, Chess, Shadowrun, Skyrim
Embarrassing Favorite: Sorry!
Tim
Tim is a polymathic gamer and has forgotten more game rules than he remembers. He is convinced that humans are not the only sapient creatures on this planet; they just currently have the best thumbs.
Favorite Games: Twilight Struggle, For the People, Carcassone
Embarrassing Favorite: Love Letter
Jennifer C.
Jennifer is an over-educated graphic designer. When not doing work for OSS Games, she is toiling away in the graphics and marketing department of a giant multinational corporation. She lives in the model home from “Arrested Development” with her teenaged son and a slightly insane dog. In the inevitable OSS biopic, she will be portrayed by Dwight Schultz, because Mike said so.
Favorite Games: Changeling: The Lost, Vampire: the Masquerade, Cards Against Humanity
Embarrassing Favorite: Star Wars Trivial Pursuit
Joseph
Joseph is the editor of Strategy & Tactics, the leading wargame simulation magazine. He has 100 or so published games to his credit, as well as being chief designer for two DARPA/USAF projects. He has also contributed to several projects for Red Storm and Talonsoft. He does not watch television and in his spare time he is a cyberpunk.
Favorite Games: Dune, U.S.N., Renaissance of Infantry
Embarrassing Favorite: Chicago, Chicago
Billy
Billy is a (somewhat) loyal minion for hire. Growing up near Salem Massachusetts drew him into horror gaming with his first game being Call of Cthulhu. An encounter with a horror fanzine drew him into freelance writing and game publishing where he contributed to long-lost magazines and websites, classic World of Darkness and Shadowrun along with publishing some thankfully forgotten games whose names will not be exhumed here.
Favorite Games: BattleFleet Gothic, Call of Cthulhu and Shadowrun
Embarrassing Favorite: Squats from Warhammer 40,000