Organization:Amarillo Design Bureau

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Short description: Game design company
Amarillo Design Bureau
IndustryGames
Founded1981
HeadquartersAmarillo, Texas,
United States
Key people
Stephen V Cole, President
Revenue$250,000 (Estimate)
Number of employees
5 (Estimate)
Websitestarfleetgames.com
Footnotes / references
Source Dun & Bradstreet[1]

Amarillo Design Bureau is a company which specializes in tactical and strategic board wargames. The company is a successor to Task Force Games,[2] and is owned and operated by Steve and Leanna Cole, with partner Steve Petrick, and based in Amarillo, Texas . The company created and developed the series of games set in the Star Trek-based Star Fleet Universe, under license from Paramount Pictures,[3] which includes the tactical combat games Star Fleet Battles[4] and Federation Commander, the strategic-level game Federation and Empire, the card-based tactical game Star Fleet Battle Force and the role-playing game Prime Directive. They also produce a large series of miniatures under the Starline 2400 and Starline 2500 label, as well as the biannual Captain's Log magazine.[5][6]

References

  1. "www.manta.com". Dun and Bradstreet. http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_grxtkh. Retrieved 2012-06-19. 
  2. "Pyramid Interview: Stephen V. Cole". http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/sample.html?id=879. Retrieved 2008-01-08. 
  3. McBride, Jim. "Space, The Familiar Frontier". Amarillo Globe News. http://www.amarillo.com/stories/030407/new_6972748.shtml. Retrieved 2012-06-19. 
  4. Nesmith, Bruce (2007). "Star Fleet Battles". in Lowder, James. Hobby Games The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 295–297. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0. 
  5. Bethke, Erik (2003). Game Development and Production. Wordware Publishing, Inc. p. 11. ISBN 1-55622-951-8. [1]
  6. Lucas, Andrew J. (1999-11-12). "Pyramid Pick: Starfleet Command". Pyramid (Online) (Steve Jackson Games). http://www.sjgames.com/pyramid/login/article.html?id=1219. Retrieved 2008-02-20. 

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