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[[File:David Ladyman with Jump Point.jpg|thumb|David Ladyman holding [[Jump Point (magazine)|Jump Point]]]]

'''David Ladyman''' is an editor at [[StarCitizen:Incan Monkey God Studios]].

==Work at CIG==
He was present at [[StarCitizen:GDC Online 2012]] when the game announcement was made. He didn't pay much attention at the time but a month or two later he checked the [[StarCitizen:Stretch Goals|stretch goal]] promises for the [[StarCitizen:Crowdfunding campaign|crowdfunding]] which included a subscriber magazine. On Wednesday night December 20th he received an email from [[StarCitizen:Chris Roberts]] asking if he could make this happen by the end of Friday, which he did, and kept doing from then on out.<ref name=":0" />

He is responsible for putting together the monthly [[StarCitizen:Jump Point (magazine)|Jump Point]] for [[StarCitizen:subscriber]]s, plus the [[StarCitizen:Vehicle brochure|ship brochures]] for each new ship premiere.<ref name=":0">[https://youtu.be/_AImlyl--_8 SCAA Interview with CIG's David Ladyman], Nichole D'Angelo, YouTube, 14 May 2014</ref> He is also responsible for finding and managing freelance authors of the stories that appear in [[StarCitizen:Spectrum Dispatch]] and Jump Point. And he edits whatever other text that arrives on his desk.<ref name="ReferenceA">{{Cite RSI|url=comm-link/transmission/13296-Meet-David-Ladyman|text=Meet David Ladyman}}</ref> He retired as editor of Jump Point with [[StarCitizen:Ben Lesnick]] as his replacement since issue 06.06.<ref>David Ladyman, ''From the Cockpit'', Jump Point, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 2, 2018-05-29</ref>

He also designed a [[StarCitizen:The Economy Boardgame|board game for the economy]] to test it out in broad strokes before putting in all the hours of programming each individual element.<ref name=":0" />

==Other Works==
He has a degree in mathematics and linguistics<ref name=":0" />. He was asked to playtest a Metagaming boardgame at a local game center. That turned into more playtesting, especially for games that Steve Jackson was designing for ''Metagaming''.

In the early 1980's, he had started helping run game conventions.

Within about five years, he was on staff with Steve Jackson Games, culminating in being system guru for both ''GURPS'' and ''Car Wars'', where he edited the first few issues of ''Autoduel Quarterly'', a Car Wars magazine set in the fictional future of that game world. While with SJG, he worked among others with Warren Spector, Steve Beeman, Jeff George, Denis Loubet, people who worked at Origin as well.

After leaving SJG, he spent a couple of years freelance editing and developing for FASA (''Battletech'' basic games and scenarios, ''Renegade Legion'', a little ''Shadowrun'') and ''TSR'' (AD&D scenarios).

He was hired by [[StarCitizen:Origin Systems]] in 1991, just after ''Ultima VI'' and [[StarCitizen:Wing Commander I|''Wing Commander I'']] were released<ref name=":0" />. He was Publications Manager, his team created the manuals and guide books for every product Origin made, including all the remaining [[StarCitizen:Wing Commander (series)|''Wing Commander'' games]], over the next six years.<ref>{{Cite Jump Point|title=50th Issue|volume=05|month=01|startpage=34|endpage=44|accessdate=}}</ref> Other folks would write it while he made sure it got edited, layed out, would go in the game box by the time the box is ready to ship.<ref name=":0" />That includes ''Ultima VII'' to ''IX'', some of it after he left Origin, as a contractor, all of the speech packs, secret missions and other add-ons, all the various console titles, [[StarCitizen:Strike Commander|''Strike Commander'']], ''Wing Commander Armada'', and more. He left Origin Systems in 1997.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

He worked on the [[StarCitizen:Wing Commander (movie)|''Wing Commander'' movie]] at [[StarCitizen:Digital Anvil]] for the official authorized Wing Commander Confederation Handbook.<ref name=":0" />

In 1997, Origin Systems which had been acquired by Electronic Arts was trying to trim the headcount and was moving the documentation to California. The team decided to leave Origin together rather than get split up, which is how the [[StarCitizen:Incan Monkey God Studios]] was formed, which is now a partner of [[StarCitizen:Cloud Imperium|Cloud Imperium Games]].<ref name=":0" />

==Trivia==

*He is not very good at combat sims, so he is most interested in the social interaction and storyline development as the game develops.<ref name="ReferenceA" />

==See also==

*{{Link RSI|url=comm-link/transmission/13296-Meet-David-Ladyman|text=Meet David Ladyman}}
*[https://youtu.be/1pmCjB6XGyY?t=25m46s Wingman's Hangar 41]

==References==

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[[Category:Developers]]
[[Category:Worked_on_Battletech]]
[[Category:Worked_at_Origin_Systems]]
[[Category:Worked_at_Digital_Anvil]]
[[Category:Worked on Ultima Online]]

StarCitizen:David Ladyman - Revision history

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