Sandy Antunes

Alexander "Sandy" Antunes (born 1967 in Baltimore, MD) is a Maryland area astronomer, author, and video game developer. He graduated from Boston University in 1989 with a dual major in Astronomy and Physics, received a Masters in Astronomy from Penn State in 1992, and received his PhD in Computational Astrophysics from George Mason University in 2005. He was the Maryland Science Center "Science Person of the Month" for May 2007.

Astronomy

Sandy has been published in numerous journal articles, including Science. In his work for NASA, he designed the mission scheduling software used for XTE, Astro-E2, and Swift missions. He was the science scheduler for the NASA/ISAS ASCA mission from 1992-1994.

Gaming

Sandy has been active in the gaming community since 1992. With his wife, Emma, he founded the industry-focused role-playing game website RPGnet in 1996. He has published a monthly column on the business side of gaming since the site's inception. One early column, " [http://www.rpg.net/news+reviews/columns/nov98.html The 1K Company] " (RPGnet, 1998), continues to receive commentscite web | url = http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=99219 | title = Publishing on the Che
] and citationscite web | url = http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=723896 | title = Google Answers: how much do retailers buy computer game software for?] to this day.

Sandy's notable works include "Miskatonic University", a supplement for Call of Cthulhu; "Rules to Live By" (a LARP rule book); "Priceless," published by Rogue Publishing; and the Origins Award nominated "A Faery's Tale."

He was chief editor on the Origins Award nominated "Metagame Magazine" for the entirety of its mass market run, 1997-1999. He was Executive Director of the GPA for 2000 and 2002.

Sandy and Mike Young ran the Cthulhu Live demos at the 1996 GenCon game convention.

In recent years he has been exploring games that can be played by parents and children, children's games, and family games.

External links

* [http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=791 Sandy Antunes' entry in the Pen & Paper RPG Database]
* [http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-abs_connect?db_key=AST&sim_query=YES&aut_xct=NO&aut_req=YES&aut_logic=OR&obj_logic=OR&author=antunes%2C+a&object=&start_mon=&start_year=&end_mon=&end_year=&ttl_logic=OR&title=&txt_logic=OR&text=&nr_to_return=100&start_nr=1&jou_pick=ALL&ref_stems=&data_and=ALL&group_and=ALL&start_entry_day=&start_entry_mon=&start_entry_year=&min_score=&sort=SCORE&aut_syn=YES&ttl_syn=YES&txt_syn=YES&aut_wt=1.0&obj_wt=1.0&ttl_wt=0.3&txt_wt=3.0&aut_wgt=YES&obj_wgt=YES&ttl_wgt=YES&txt_wgt=YES&ttl_sco=YES&txt_sco=YES&version=1 Index of Astronomy-related Journal Articles]
* [http://www.rpg.net/columns/list-column.phtml?colname=soap Sandy Antunes' regular column at rpg.net]

References

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NAME= Antunes, Alexander K.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Antunes, Sandy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES= Antunes, Alex
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American astronomer and game designer
DATE OF BIRTH= April 5, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH= Baltimore, MD, United States
DATE OF DEATH=
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