Arc Dream Publishing is a small role-playing game

Role-playing game

A role-playing game is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting, or through a process of structured decision-making or character development...

 publishing company founded in 2002 by Pagan Publishing

Pagan Publishing

Pagan Publishing is a role-playing game publishing company founded by John Tynes in 1990. It began by publishing a Call of Cthulhu role-playing game fanzine, The Unspeakable Oath. In 1994, the company moved from Columbia, Missouri to Seattle, Washington where it incorporated. The staff at this time...

 veteran Dennis Detwiller

Dennis Detwiller

Dennis Detwiller is a computer game designer for Hothead Games as well as a role-playing game developer and artist.-Biography:Detwiller was a founding member of Pagan Publishing with John Tynes as art director where he co-created the Origins Award winning Delta Green in 1997 with Tynes and Adam...

 and editor Shane Ivey after the release of their first roleplaying game Godlike

Godlike (role-playing game)

Godlike: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946 is an alternate history World War II era Superhero role-playing game, created by Dennis Detwiller and Greg Stolze. Godlike was originally produced by Dennis Detwiller and John Tynes of Pagan Publishing , and published by Hawthorn...

: Superhero Roleplaying in a World on Fire, 1936-1946 was published by Hobgoblynn Press.

As of June 9, 2003, Arc Dream is the sole publisher of Godlike and all other products in the Godlike game line. Beyond Godlike, Arc Dream has also released Wild Talents

Wild Talents (role-playing game)

Wild Talents is a superhero role-playing game published by Arc Dream Publishing and written by Dennis Detwiller, with Greg Stolze, Kenneth Hite, and Shane Ivey, with illustrations by Christopher Shy, Sam Araya, and Todd Shearer...

: Superhero Roleplaying in a World Gone Mad, which is an extension of the Godlike system and world. They have also released the free horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 setting roleplaying game NEMESIS

NEMESIS (role-playing game)

Nemesis is a supernatural horror role-playing game, created by Dennis Detwiller, Greg Stolze and Shane Ivey, with game mechanics by Greg Stolze. The game is available electronically for free. Nemesis uses the One-Roll Engine gaming system, a dice pool system where matched die results determine...

 using the same One-Roll Engine

One-Roll Engine

The One-Roll Engine is a generic role-playing game system developed by Greg Stolze for the alternate history superhero roleplaying game Godlike. The system was expanded upon in the modern-day sequel, Wild Talents, as well as the heroic fantasy game Reign and the free horror game Nemesis. A...

 game system as Wild Talents and Godlike.

The name ARC DREAM comes from one of Dennis Detwiller's other roleplaying games—Delta Green

Delta Green

Delta Green is a setting for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game created by Adam Scott Glancy, Dennis Detwiller, and John Tynes, aka the Delta Green Partnership, of the Seattle gaming house Pagan Publishing...

—where it is a secret government project.