Gareth-Michael Skarka is a writer, game designer, consultant, graphic designer and veteran of over twenty years in the entertainment business, having worked on properties ranging from Star Trek to Doctor Who and more. He is the creator of Far West, a transmedia setting that mixes elements of Chinese Wuxia, Spaghetti Westerns and Steampunk, and is the founder and director of Adamant Entertainment, which began as a game design studio before expanding into publishing and transmedia development. His game design credits include work on Doctor Who: Adventures in Time and Space, Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game, licensed Savage Worlds work (the pulp setting of Thrilling Tales and the sword-and-planet setting of Mars) and more. The married father of three lives in the old frontier (in Lawrence, Kansas), but works in the new one.