FSpace Publications

Infobox_Company
company_name = FSpace Publications
company_type = Sole proprietorship
industry = Role-playing game publisher
products = FSpaceRPG, FED RPG
foundation = 1991
key_people = Martin Rait, Aaron Barlow, Gary Ammundsen, Stephen Pritchard, Andrew Russell, Robert Bettelheim, Philip Warnes
location = Lower Hutt, New Zealand
homepage = [http://www.fspacerpg.com/ http://www.fspacerpg.com/]

FSpace Publications is a role-playing game publisher founded in 1991 under a different trading name (Future Systems) until it rebranded in 1994. It is an active publisher of science fiction roleplaying products.

History

"FSpace Publications"cite web |url=http://www.fspacerpg.com/ |title=FSpaceRPG website - Home |accessdate=2008-03-22 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=FSpace Publications] was originally established in 1991. The founding members consisted of Martin Rait, Aaron Barlow, Michael Kerse and Gary Ammundsen. The group originally published under the trade name of Future Systems.

Focussed originally on publishing a single science fiction roleplaying product. Its original working title was "The Federation Science Fiction Roleplaying Game". A small series of articles about the development of the original version of the game appeared in the New Zealand gaming magazine "Generals, Dragon and Dice", ISSN: 1170-5787.

As playtesters often referred to the game in public as FED Space, the title was shortened to FSpace, and both the trade name of the company and its product was shortened to that shortened name in 1994.

FSpace Publications also published a fanzine "The Meshan Saga" cite web |url=http://traveller.wikia.com/wiki/The_Meshan_Saga |title=The Meshan Saga |accessdate=2008-03-22 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Traveller Wikia] for the Traveller science-fiction role-playing game beginning in 1995 with the last issue done in 1999. Copies of the publication are lodged with the National Archives, Wellington, New Zealand, both physical copies and digital PDFs on CDROM in their collection under ISSN 1174-8710. They are held in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Serials Collection, Call Number: Per MES.

The team worked under contract to Jolly Roger Gamescite web |url=http://www.jollyrogergames.com |title=Jolly Roger Games |accessdate=2008-03-22 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Jolly Roger Games] to produce boardgame maps for Orcs at the Gatescite web |url=http://www.originsgamefair.com/awards/1999 |title=Orcs at the Gates won award for Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game of 1999 at Origins Awards |accessdate=2008-03-22 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design] and Chopping Maulcite web |url=http://www.jollyrogergames.com/maulofamerica.php |title=Chopping Maul |accessdate=2008-03-22 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Jolly Roger Games] .

Products

Role-playing games

*"FSpaceRPG" - A hard science fiction roleplaying game. First edition came out in 1995 and made its debut at the KAPCON 1995 convention in Wellington.
*"FED RPG" - Repackaged version of the simpler development version of the game used prior to its revamp and rebrand

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