Timothy S. Gerritsen is a producer and designer who has been involved primarily in

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Career

Tim Gerritsen was the Business Development Manager for

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. Gerritsen wanted to license a tabletop role-playing game for the ''

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'' computer game (2000), which could be used to create new IP that could in turn be used in future releases in the computer game franchise. Gerritsen looked for potential licensees in 1999 at

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32 and decided the best choice was small company Atlas Games, who would focus more attention on the game design, and Atlas had connections with designers such as Robin Laws, Jonathan Tweet,

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, and

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. Gerritsen co-founded Big Rooster Games in 2007 which was developing The 2008 version of Talisman. Gerritsen was later director of product development for

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Education

Gerritsen graduated Magna Cum Laude from

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with a bachelor's degree in History with minor in film.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerritsen, Tim American game designers Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people)