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Justin D. Jacobson
Justin D. Jacobson is an attorney and professional game designer. Career Justin D. Jacobson is an attorney, and was the owner and operator of Blue Devil Games, publishers of role-playing games and strategy games. He is best known as the designer of ''Poisoncraft: The Dark Art'', ''Dawning Star'', and ''Passages'', and the winner of the About.com 2004 Shared Pieces Design Competition for ''Golem''. In 2004, Blue Devil Games was one of the seven companies working with Indie Press Revolution as a fulfillment house to serve small press publishers with their publications in terms of warehousing, selling, and shipping to customers directly. Jacobson joined with Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue of Evil Hat Productions and Chris Hanrahan in 2008 to form the game company One Bad Egg, intending to publish high-quality PDFs for fourth edition ''Dungeons & Dragons'' which encouraged storytelling in play; however, sales were bad, and Hicks announced in September 2009 that One Bad Egg would be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Florida
Florida is a state located in the Southeastern region of the United States. Florida is bordered to the west by the Gulf of Mexico, to the northwest by Alabama, to the north by Georgia, to the east by the Bahamas and Atlantic Ocean, and to the south by the Straits of Florida and Cuba; it is the only state that borders both the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. Spanning , Florida ranks 22nd in area among the 50 states, and with a population of over 21 million, it is the third-most populous. The state capital is Tallahassee, and the most populous city is Jacksonville. The Miami metropolitan area, with a population of almost 6.2 million, is the most populous urban area in Florida and the ninth-most populous in the United States; other urban conurbations with over one million people are Tampa Bay, Orlando, and Jacksonville. Various Native American groups have inhabited Florida for at least 14,000 years. In 1513, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León became the first k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rob Daviau
Rob Daviau is an American game designer known for creating legacy board gaming. Career He has guest lectured at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, and New York University on game design and has been a visiting professor of game design at Hampshire College. In 1998, Daviau joined Hasbro as a writer for text-heavy games like Trivial Pursuit and Taboo. Daviau is a co-founder of Restoration Games which "specializes in resurrecting older games and giving them new life". Bibliography Games that Rob Daviau has designed or co-designed include the following: *2000 ''Star Wars: The Queen's Gambit'' with Alan Roach and Craig Van Ness (2001 International Gamers Award winner for General Strategy, 2-Player category) *2001 '' Axis & Allies: Pacific'' with Stephen Baker and Larry Harris, Jr. (2001 Origins Awards Best Historical Board Game Winner) *2001 '' Risk 2210 A.D.'' with Craig Van Ness (2001 Origins Awards Best Science Fiction or Fantasy Board Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Board Game Designers
Board or Boards may refer to: Flat surface * Lumber, or other rigid material, milled or sawn flat ** Plank (wood) ** Cutting board ** Sounding board, of a musical instrument * Cardboard (paper product) * Paperboard * Fiberboard ** Hardboard, a type of fiberboard * Particle board, also known as ''chipboard'' ** Oriented strand board * Printed circuit board, in computing and electronics ** Motherboard, the main printed circuit board of a computer * A reusable writing surface ** Chalkboard ** Whiteboard Recreation * Board game **Chessboard **Checkerboard * Board (bridge), a device used in playing duplicate bridge * Board, colloquial term for the rebound statistic in basketball * Board track racing, a type of motorsport popular in the United States during the 1910s and 1920s * Boards, the wall around a bandy field or ice hockey rink * Boardsports * Diving board (other) Companies * Board International, a Swiss software vendor known for its business intelligence software t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (; born Lee Jun-fan, ; November 27, 1940 – July 20, 1973) was a Hong Kong and American martial artist and actor. He was the founder of Jeet Kune Do, a hybrid martial arts philosophy drawing from different combat disciplines that is often credited with paving the way for modern mixed martial arts (MMA). Lee is considered by critics, media, and other martial artists to be the most influential martial artist of all time and a pop culture icon of the 20th century, who bridged the gap between East and West. He is credited with promoting Hong Kong action cinema and helping to change the way Asians were presented in American films. Born in San Francisco and raised in British Hong Kong, Lee was introduced to the Hong Kong film industry as a child actor by his father. However, these were not martial arts films. His early martial arts experience included Wing Chun (trained under Yip Man), tai chi, boxing (winning a Hong Kong boxing tournament), and apparently frequent str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mondo (American Company)
Mondo is an American company known for releasing limited edition screen printed posters for films, television shows, and comics, as well as vinyl movie soundtracks, clothing and apparel, toys, and re-issues of VHS releases. Founded in 2004 as Mondo Tees, the company is a former subsidiary of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain in Austin, Texas, and currently hosts a permanent gallery space there which features original artwork and custom posters. In June 2022, Funko announced that it had acquired Mondo. History In 2001, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema founder Tim League was visiting Kier-La Janisse in Vancouver for the CineMuerte Film Festival. League visited a vintage iron-on T-shirt shop called Bang-On, and years later, pitched the idea of a T-shirt store as a branch of the Drafthouse chain to Janisse and her boyfriend Lester Smolenski. With the help of graphic designs from Smolenski, who worked for Bang-On, the offshoot Mondo Tees was established in 2004. In spring 2004, Mondo Tees co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Wars Epic Duels
The Star Wars Epic Duels board game was released by Hasbro in 2002. It was designed for ages 8 and up, and for 2-6 players. The main designer of the game was Craig Van Ness, with assistance from Rob Daviau. It is out of print. Characters There are 12 major characters in the game, and each major character is accompanied by one or two minor characters. The character combinations are: Anakin Skywalker with Padmé Amidala, Darth Maul with two Battle Droids, Obi-Wan Kenobi with two clone troopers, Yoda with two clone troopers, Luke Skywalker with Princess Leia, Mace Windu with two clone troopers, Darth Vader with two Stormtroopers, Count Dooku with two Super Battle Droids, Boba Fett with Greedo, Emperor Palpatine with two Royal Guards, Jango Fett with Zam Wesell, and Han Solo with Chewbacca. Game play Game play is based on a card-centered combat system. Each set of characters has its own deck of 31 cards. There are three types of cards in the deck, Basic Combat Cards, Pow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Tower (game)
''Dark Tower'' is a 1981 electronic board game, by Milton Bradley Company, for one to four players. The object of the game is to amass an army, collect the three keys to the Tower, and defeat the evil within. The game came out during the height of the role-playing game craze in the early 1980s. Advertising for the game included a television commercial featuring Orson Welles. A sequel, ''Return to Dark Tower'', was developed by Restoration Games and released in 2022. Components The game consists of a Battery (electricity), battery-powered center unit (the Dark Tower), a circular cardboard game board divided into four interlocking quarters (with a hole in the middle for the Tower), four Paperboard, cardboard tokens, several plastic flags, playing pieces, and locations which are placed in holes in the board. In addition, there are several peg boards (with red ''Battleship (game), Battleship''-type pegs) used to keep track of a player's number of troops, gold and food. The Towe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return To Dark Tower
''Return to Dark Tower'' is a board game for one to four players, designed and published by Restoration Games. The game is a sequel to the 1981 board game ''Dark Tower'', by Milton Bradley Company. ''Return to Dark Tower'' has players cooperate or compete as they rule over kingdoms surrounding the titular Tower, with their chosen "heroes" gathering resources, defeating monsters and enhancing their strength. As the game progresses, the Tower dispenses corruption across the land, which players must cleanse, while also looking to identify the foe inhabiting the Tower, so that they may defeat it, to win the game. ''Return to Dark Tower'' features a circular mat that is sectioned into quarters, to represent the kingdoms, with a Bluetooth-powered Tower at the center, which is connected to an app that runs the game. ''Return to Dark Tower'' was designed by a team of board game industry veterans - most notably the creator of ''Gloomhaven'', Isaac Childres and the creator of '' Pandemic: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fireball Island
Fireball Island is a board game first published by Milton Bradley in 1986. The tagline is "''The dimensional adventure game of pitfalls and perils!''" It is set on an unexploited (by treasure hunters) tropical island, the home of the ancient idol Vul-Kar. Players progress along winding paths around the island, avoiding fireballs and trying to steal Vul-Kar's jewel and carry it to the escape boat. The game concept was originally developed by artist / toy designers Bruce Lund and Chuck Kennedy. The game was licensed to Milton Bradley by Anjar Co., an international toy licensing company and co-licensor of the game. Rules The game mechanics In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them. A rule is an instruction on how to play, a ludeme is an element of play like the L-sha ... in Fireball Island are moderately complex, requiring both skill and luck to win. The object of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragonmaster (card Game)
''Dragonmaster'' is a card game for 3–4 players that was published by Milton Bradley in 1981. Components ''Dragonmaster'' is a trick-taking card game. The game comes with * a deck of 33 character cards: ** four suits of eight cards each (king, queen, prince or princess, wizard, duke, count, baron, and fool) ** one dragon card * five special "hand" cards, each with a different trick-taking rule listed on the front: ** Don’t take the first or last trick. ** Don’t take the Prince of the suit called Warriors ** Don’t take any Dragonlords ** Don’t take any Wizards ** Don’t take any of the above. * a rank-order card * 60 plastic jewels * a drawstring pouch for the jewels The artwork was by Bob Pepper. Object of the game Each player tries to accumulate the greatest number of gems by the end of either fifteen hands for a three-player game, or twenty hands for a four-player game. Gameplay Basic game The Dragon card is removed from the deck for the basic game. A "round" co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolfgang Kramer
Wolfgang Kramer (born 29 June 1942 in Stuttgart) is a German board game designer. Early life As a young child, Wolfgang Kramer used to play games with his grandmother, and said he developed a positive attitude about games because "she always used to let me win." Although he started buying games in his teens, he found there wasn't much variety, so he started to modify some rules. His friends enjoyed the new rules and suggested he design his own games. Part-time games designer While studying commercial science, Kramer started to develop a racing game that didn't use dice for movement. While working as an operations manager and computer scientist, he developed his new movement system into an abstract game called ''Tempo'', and published it in 1974. He later modified this game into a car racing game called ''Formel Eins'' (''Formula One''). While still working full-time, he designed and published several more games, two of which won the Spiel des Jahres. Full-time games designer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
