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Nationality
  
British

Occupation
  
Game publisher

Name
  
Angus Abranson


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Angus Abranson is a game publisher who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

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Career

Angus Abranson started playing AD&D in 1984, and by the age of 14 he was working for Leisure Games - one of the top game retailers in London. In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Abranson was also writing for Adventurer (1986-1987) and other British RPG magazines and was one of the forces behind the foundation of the magazine Valkyrie in 1994 and regularly reported news for Valkyrie afterward.

By 2003 Abranson was the flatmate of Dave Allsop, and they decided to form a new role-playing company called Cubicle 7. Their first priority was Allsop's SLA Industries, so Abranson announced a publishing schedule of five SLA Industries books for 2004, and by the start of the year he had the first two in layout. Abranson and Dominic McDowall-Thomas were friends who regularly gamed and clubbed together, and he agreed to help edit the SLA Industries books for Abranson. In late 2006, Abranson and McDowall-Thomas properly formed Cubicle 7 Entertainment Limited, with the two of them as partners. Abranson and McDowall-Thomas handed the creation of Victoriana to Ian Sturrock and Andrew Peregrine, as they remained focus on the business side of things. Abranson recruited Chris Birch to write Starblazer Adventures. After acquiring the Doctor Who license, Abranson and McDowall-Thomas needed investment by the end of 2008, and went to Matthew Sprange of Mongoose Publishing who introduced them to the Rebellion Group. Abranson and McDowall-Thomas were then able to go full-time for the first time in March 2009, and as a result Abranson left Leisure Games. Cubicle 7 began partnering with other companies, many of the over 20 companies thanks to Abranson's long-time connections within the industry.

The Cubicle 7 print partnerships were not as successful as hoped, reportedly having a "disastrous effect on the company's cashflow", and in November 2011 Abranson left Cubicle 7 to form Chronicle City. He continued the print partnership model at Chronicle City, while Cubicle 7 largely abandoned it, Cubicle 7 recovered after Abranson's departure, CEO Dominic McDowall-Thomas going on to reportedly turn over a million dollars, two years after Abranson had departed.

Abranson went on to partner with long time associate James Desborough, who was appointed creative director at Chronicle City in 2013.

In 2016 Abranson was appointed business director at EN Publishing.

References

Angus Abranson Wikipedia