Barry Payne
Game Designer at Sycarion Diversions
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBarry Payne is a game designer with over a decade crafting role-playing, board, and card game experiences from Omaha, Nebraska. He publishes through his long-running blog Sycarion Diversions, where he documents projects since 2006 including the EPiC Engine RPG that leverages a standard deck of cards and a forthcoming five-suited deck. With a publishing credit for Dungeons & Dragons–compatible content and experience as a content developer at Nevermet Press, he blends creative design with technical writing and open-source tooling to produce reproducible game content. Trained in English literature and secondary education, Barry brings a strong narrative sensibility and pedagogical clarity to game mechanics and rulebooks.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Language, Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and Language at North Carolina State UniversityTeacher Cert, Secondary English, Teacher Cert, Secondary English at North Carolina Central UniversityManteo High School
Spanish, Sign languages, Russian, Greek
Github Skills (17)
git8
playing7
tabletop7
appstream6
elementaryos6
gtk5
vala4
flatpak4
stripe4
errata3
data-repository3
pdf2
markdown2
json-api1
json1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sycarion/864-System
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
The 864 tabletop role-playing game system, an open-source project.
Contributions:71 commits, 71 pushes in 2 years 1 month
gamerole-playing-gamerole-playingrole-playing-game-systemopen-source-project
sycarion/StaffoftheXO
Mar 2019 - Mar 2022
Contributions:235 commits, 230 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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