It was 1980 when Steve Jackson founded his game company, after leaving Metagaming Concepts. His first published product was Ogre, a tactical combat game that's still in production today, over 40 years later.
In 1986, Steve Jackson Games launched GURPS - the Generic Universal RolePlaying System - one of the first truly universal role-playing game systems, designed to work with any setting. GURPS has produced hundreds of supplements over the decades and continues to be supported today.
In 2001, the company published Munchkin, illustrated by John Kovalic. What began as a parody of role-playing games has become one of the world's best-selling card games, with dozens of expansions and themed versions.
Steve Jackson Games is also known for Car Wars, the vehicular combat game, and Toon, the cartoon role-playing game created with Greg Costikyan and Warren Spector.
Since 1994, Steve Jackson has been writing the Daily Illuminator, one of the longest-running gaming blogs on the internet, updated regularly for over 30 years.
Tonight we'll talk about his career in game design, the evolution of the tabletop gaming industry, and the future of gaming.