James Griffiths

<p><strong>Hello! My name's James and since my first game of Heroquest in 1989 I've been passionate about for toy soldiers. </strong></p> <p>For the majority of my working life I've managed to make a living from things well meaning folks used to tell me were 'a waste of time' or 'something I'd grow out of'.</p> <p>I've been a computer games journalist, a web monkey and community manager on an MMO and I rounded out my geek credentials with a spell at Games Workshop on their website. These days I'm a freelance miniature painter by trade and with any spare cash I can muster I am building up my own fledgling miniature company - Infamy Miniatures.</p> <p><strong>Infamy Miniatures</strong></p> <p>Infamy Miniatures is the culmination of 22 years spent playing with and painting toy soldiers.</p> <p>I've done a lot of daydreaming in that time and the world of Infamy is the outcome of those daydreams. So far I am focusing on releasing amazing quality miniatures sculpted by some of the most talented folks around, but as time goes on a game world will build around them.</p> <p><strong> The world of Infamy</strong></p> <p>It is the late 19th century and a technological revolution is sweeping through Great Britain. Sparked by Mycroft Holmes' creation of the Cogitation Engine - an advanced version of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine - the nation's capital is caught up in a wave of invention and discovery.</p> <p>The city thrums to the sound of gigantic and increasingly elaborate machines, their maze-like interiors of cogs and pistons churning around the clock. Powered by armies of navvies who shovel fuel into the huge burners and risk their lives performing maintenance, these machines drive the city. They are the lifeblood of London's 'Golden Age' and fill the air with the thick smoke of industry and mass-production.</p> <p>The development of increasingly powerful Cogitation Engines has laid waste to the traditional structure of power in London. Long established institutions, initially reluctant to take on the 'dangerous' new technology, are on the brink of collapse and now they must battle to retain control.</p> <p>While they flounder in the wake of change, upstarts rise to power, embracing the new age, creating ever more incredible tools, machinery, intelligence-gathering methods and weapons.</p> <p>These companies, corporations, institutions and their members reside in ornate and elaborate towers, rising high above the streets, increasingly isolated from the machinery filled nightmare evolving beneath them.</p> <p>And in the city's underbelly the downtrodden, forgotten and abused working-class grow angry. Opportunistic rabble rousers, crime lords, kingpins and undesirables gather support, all hungry for a piece of the pie.</p> <p>The uprising is coming, but which side will you choose?</p>

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