Holistic Design, Inc. (HDI), is an American game company.[1]
It was founded in 1992[2] as Several Dudes Holistic Gaming. The company has developed many computer games in its history, including Battles of Destiny, Hammer of the Gods,[3] Final Liberation, Merchant Prince series,[2][3] Emperor of the Fading Suns,[4] and Mall Tycoon.[5] HDI also has a number of miniatures games in its inventory, including Noble Armada, Carnage and Combat Zone. Their most famous product is perhaps its role-playing game Fading Suns,[6] but they also have a number of other RPGs to their credit, such as Rapture: The Second Coming, and their Real-Life Roleplaying series covering Afghanistan, Colombia, Somalia, and the FBI. In 2011, the company entered into an arrangement with RedBrick to continue the creation and publication of Fading Suns as a tabletop RPG. The company also announced a tablet game called Noble Armada which has not yet been released.[7] In 2014, the company made arrangements for FASA Games to continue the same arrangement, which has produced a new core rulebook with plans for reprinting old ones.[8] Only one of the original partners is still with the company, Ken Lightner, though the other current partners bring a broad array of game design skills to the firm, most notably Bill Bridges, Andrew Greenberg and Chris Wiese.