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| Mike Nielsen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 |
| Occupation | Artist & Illustrator |
Mike "Miken" Nielsen is a freelance artist and illustrator who produced art for a number of BattleTech, Shadowrun, w:Earthdawn titles, but is most notably recalled as the artist and creator of VOR: The Maelstrom.
Hired by FASA right out of high school, Nielsen remained at the company for 11 years, producing work for all its games and progressing from art duties to game designer, conceiving VOR: The Malestrom and pitching to it FASA. Nielsen retained the rights to VOR after FASA's closure and has made a number of efforts to revive the game.
BattleTech titles worked on[edit]
- 1st Somerset Strikers
- BattleTech Fourth Edition
- BattleTech Compendium
- BattleTech Compendium: The Rules of Warfare
- BattleTech Master Rules
- BattleTech Master Rules, Revised
- The Black Thorns
- ClanTroops
- Classic BattleTech RPG
- Experimental Technical Readout: Boondoggles
- The Fall of Terra
- Field Manual: Draconis Combine
- Field Manual: Free Worlds League
- Field Manual: Mercenaries
- Field Manual: Mercenaries, Revised
- Field Manual: Warden Clans
- First Strike
- Hot Spots
- Invading Clans
- Jade Falcon Sourcebook
- Lawyers, Guns, & Money
- Luthien
- McCarron's Armored Cavalry
- MechWarrior: The BattleTech Role Playing Game, Second Edition
- MechWarrior, Third Edition
- Mercenary's Handbook 3055
- The Periphery, Second Edition
- Solaris VII: The Game World
- Solaris: The Reaches
- Technical Readout: 3025 Revised
- Technical Readout: 3039
- Technical Readout: 3055
- Technical Readout: 3055 Revised
- Technical Readout: 3057
- Twilight of the Clans
- Unbound
See also[edit]
- Art of Miken page on Facebook
- BattleTech-related artwork by Mike Nielsen