Checkout the latest on where Games Developer and Writer Matt Ward’s winding path has let him back to again: Games Workshop.
Matt Ward posted this on his twitter late yesterday:
So, it’d seem I have a new client:
Some of you veteran players may remember Ward, who left Games Workshop back in 2014:
The designer behind more Codex and rulebooks than you could shake a medium-sized stick at has left Games Workshop.
Matt Ward, writer and game designer, has leftGames Workshop after 11 years. “I can certainly confirm that I’m no longer at GW,” he says. “Beyond that, I doubt I’ve anything interesting to say.”
Ward’s tenure in the happy, carefree land of smiling space marines could best be regarded as fraught. He’s the author or co-author of Codex for Blood Angels, Space Marines and Grey Knights, as well as several army books and the main rulebook for Warhammer Fantasy 8th Edition, among other works. He made many canon changes, some of which upset the fanbase, with predictable results.
Games Workshop reported tumbling stock pricesand a profit drop of 24% this year, but its acting CEO Tom Kirby is confident that significant changes, including group consolidation and the one-man-store policy, will keep Games Workshop in business for many years to come.
Source: The Escapist
According to his site, the Tower of Stars, he produced quite a bit of material for Games Workshop in his 12 years there:
- Codex: Blood Angels (2nd Edition)
- Codex: Grey Knights (1st Edition)
- Codex: Iyanden (1st Edition)
- Codex: Necrons (2nd Edition)
- Codex: Sentinels of Terra (1st Edition)
- Codex: Space Marines (3rd Edition)
- The Lord of the Rings: Battle of Pelennor Fields
- The Lord of the Rings
- Fall of the Necromancer
- The Lord of the Rings: Gondor in Flames
- The Lord of the Rings: Harad
- The Lord of the Rings: Ruin of Arnor
- The Lord of the Rings: Shadow and Flame
- The Lord of the Rings: Shadow in the East
- The Lord of the Rings:
The Scouring of the Shire- The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring
- Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (5th Edition)
- Warhammer 40,000 Rulebook (6th Edition)
- Warhammer End Times: Nagash
- Warhammer End Times: Khaine
- Warhammer End Times: Archaon
- Warhammer Rulebook (8th Edition)
- Warhammer: Daemons of Chaos (1st Edition)
- Warhammer: Daemons of Chaos (2nd Edition)
- Warhammer: Dark Elves (4th Edition)
- Warhammer: High Elves (5th Edition)
- Warhammer: Orcs & Goblins (3rd Edition)
- Warhammer: Storm of Magic
- Warhammer: Wood Elves (2nd Edition)
- Warhammer: Wood Elves (3rd Edition)
That is an impressive list of supplements that anyone would love to aspire to in their career with any games company.
So I wonder what he’s going to be working on…. now?
Catch up with the hundreds of folks commenting away about today’s news below:
Matt Ward Returns
-good luck Matt!
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