Guest of Honor: Andrew E.C. Gaska

The multiple ENnie and UKGE Award-winning lore and adventure writer for the Alien Roleplaying Game from Free League Publishing, Andrew is a book designer, franchise consultant, game developer, and sci-fi author with over twenty years of industry experience. He served as creative director and lead writer for the Carbon Grey RPG and the Role-Playing Game of the Planet of the Apes, published by Magnetic Press. The narrative director for Terminator and T2 RPGs from Nightfall Games, he has also written for the Transformers RPG from Renegade Studios.

Andrew's prose and graphic novel work includes Planet of the Apes, Buck Rogers, and the Choose Your Own Adventure series. His two Space: 1999 graphic novels have just received a 10th anniversary edition re-release. For many years, Andrew was a visual consultant to Rockstar Games on projects such as Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption. Later, he became a franchise consultant for Twentieth Century Studios, where he developed in-house bibles for the Alien, Predator, and POTA expanded universes.

For fifteen years, he wrote alongside his feline partner, Adrien. Recently ascended to the immortal plane, Adrien now lives on in Drew’s work.