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Rusel DeMaria is an author of several computer game strategy guides. He wrote The Farlander Papers and The Stele Chronicles, which were included with, and told the backstory to, Star Wars: X-Wing and Star Wars: TIE Fighter respectively. DeMaria later expanded these in X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide and TIE Fighter: The Official Strategy Guide. He is also the author of Super Star Wars Official Game Secrets and Super Empire Strikes Back Official Game Secrets.

Biography[]

Rusel DeMaria became a professional author in 1981. In 1990, DeMaria founded Prima Publishing's strategy-guide division, originally Secrets of the Games but later renamed Prima Games, with Ben Dominitz. Over the next six years, he wrote numerous strategy guides and experimented with different styles of writing and layout which have since become common in strategy guides.[1]

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Rusel DeMaria (center) with Edward Kilham (left) and Lawrence Holland (right)

When Lawrence Holland and Edward Kilham began working on the 1993 LucasArts video game Star Wars: X-Wing, DeMaria was brought into the project early to write The Farlander Papers, a novella that was included with the game and told the story of player character Keyan Farlander's first mission as a Rebel starfighter pilot.[2] Following the release of the game, DeMaria co-authored X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide with the game's mission designers, David Wessman and David Maxwell. The strategy guide contained strategies for every mission in the game and continued Farlander's story. It also provided much early information on the workings of the Alliance Starfighter Corps.

When LucasArts released the sequel to X-wing, Star Wars: TIE Fighter, in 1994, DeMaria was once more involved in the project, authoring The Stele Chronicles, a second novella telling the story of the game's main character, Maarek Stele. He once more teamed up with Wessman and Maxwell to produce TIE Fighter: The Official Strategy Guide, in which he continued Stele's story.

Star Wars works[]

Title Year Format Publisher
Super Star Wars Official Game Secrets 1993 Strategy guide Prima Games
Super Empire Strikes Back Official Game Secrets (with Jeronimo Barrera and Tom Stratton) 1993 Strategy guide Prima Games
The Farlander Papers 1993 Novella LucasArts
X-Wing: The Official Strategy Guide (with David Maxwell and David Wessman) 1993 Strategy guide Prima Games
The Stele Chronicles 1994 Novella LucasArts
TIE Fighter: The Official Strategy Guide (with David Maxwell and David Wessman) 1994 Strategy guide Prima Games
TIE Fighter: Defender of the Empire: Official Secrets & Solutions (with David Maxwell and David Wessman) 1994 Strategy guide Prima Games
X-wing Collector's CD-ROM: The Official Strategy Guide (with David Maxwell and David Wessman) 1995 Strategy guide Prima Games
TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM: The Official Strategy Guide (with David Maxwell and David Wessman) 1995 Strategy guide Prima Games


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