Joshua A.C. Newman

Newman is the designer of the Indie role-playing games Under the Bed (2005), Shock: Social Science Fiction (2006), Beowulf (2008), Shock:Human Contact (2010), and The Bloody-Handed Name of Bronze (2016). His publishing imprint is called the glyphphress.

In 2012, Joshua A.C. Newman worked with Vincent Baker on a new version of the Mechaton rules as Mobile Frame Zero 001: Rapid Attack (2012), and Newman was able to use this for a successful Kickstarter.[1] Rapid Attack was followed by Mobile Frame Zero 002: Intercept Orbit, a carrier-based spaceship battle game in the same universe.

He resides in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he is also a book and graphic designer. He teaches game design at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College of Information and Computer Sciences. He also teaches in an alternative high school in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

The homepage of the glyphpress leads to Newman's blog, xenoglyph, concerned with many forms of speculative art and design, not limited to games.

• Under the Bed
• Shock: Social Science Fiction
• Shock: Human Contact
• Beowulf

Newman has also contributed to the book design of several other indie roleplaying games.

• Dogs in the Vineyard
• The Mountain Witch
• Bliss Stage
• Misspent Youth

• the glyphpress home page, featuring the xenoglyph blog
• the glyphpress Forum on The Forge