Jeff Tidball was a college student when he began working full-time at Atlas Games when the company expanded after the success of On the Edge (1994).
[1]: 254 John Nephew and Tidball were the only staff that Atlas retained after the collectible card game field crashed in 1996.
[2] Tidball designed Cults Across America (1998) which was one of the board and card game releases from Atlas.
[1]: 257 Tidball left Atlas Games in 2000 to take a Master of Fine Arts film script-writing program available at the University of Southern California.
He has also continued to write in the roleplaying industry, notably the massive Eternal Lies campaign he wrote with Hindmarch for Pelgrane Press's Trail of Cthulhu RPG.