Steve Jackson (British game designer)

[1] In early 1975, Jackson co-founded the company Games Workshop with school friends John Peake and Ian Livingstone.

[3]: 43  While selling game products directly from their flat, their landlord evicted them in summer 1976 after people kept going there looking for a physical store.

[6] In 1980, Jackson and Livingstone began to develop the concept of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series, the first volume of which (The Warlock of Firetop Mountain) was published in 1982 by Puffin Books (a subsidiary imprint of Penguin).

[8] After the success of the Fighting Fantasy series, Jackson designed the first interactive telephone role-playing game, FIST, which was based loosely on the concepts of the gamebooks.

[7] He is an honorary professor at Brunel University in London, where he teaches the Digital Games Theory and Design MA.