Jervis Johnson

English game designer Jervis JohnsonBorn12 June 1959 (1959-06-12) (age 67)LondonOccupationGame designerFatherRichard Johnson Jervis Johnson (born 12 June 1959) is an English tabletop game designer. He worked as a designer and manager for Games Workshop for over 38 years, and was the head of its Specialist Games studio. In addition to his work on Warhammer Fantasy Battles and Warhammer 40,000, he created the fantasy football game Blood Bowl, and co-created Epic 40,000, Necromunda, and Age of Sigmar. Career Johnson joined Games Workshop as a trade sales assistant in 1982. In 1986, he began writing rules for the company's own games, writing the first edition of Blood Bowl in his spare time. He was a playtester for Rogue Trader, the first version of Warhammer 40,000. In 1988 Johnson co-created Games Workshop's first 6 mm miniature game, Adeptus Titanicus and its spinoff Space Marine – the beginnings of the Epic 40,000 system. In 1989 he developed Advanced Heroquest, a new version of Milton Bradley's HeroQuest board game. In the 1990s, Johnson helped develop Advanced Space Crusade, and was one of the Games Workshop staff who designed games for the first iteration of The Crystal Maze.