Jeff Tidball
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer

Jeff Tidball is a game designer who has worked primarily on role-playing games.

Career

After the success of On the Edge (1994), college student Jeff Tidball became one of the new full-time employees at Atlas Games.[1]: 254  When the collectible card game field crashed in 1996, John Nephew and Tidball were the only staff retained by Atlas.[1]: 254  Tidball became the Director of Creative Development and soon began developing Atlas Games's next role-playing game, Ars Magica, which Atlas had acquired from Wizards of the Coast.[1]: 254  Tidball also became the Ars Magica line developer,[1]: 255  and the Feng Shui line developer as well.[2] Tidball's Cults Across America (1998) was one of the board and card game releases from Atlas.[1]: 257  In 2000, Tidball left Atlas Games for an MFA film script-writing program at the University of Southern California.[1]: 255  Tidball was later hired by Last Unicorn Games, but by January 2004 Tidball and Jess Heinig were the only remaining employees in the Last Unicorn Games RPG division of Decipher Games, so Decipher shut down Last Unicorn Games.[1]: 318  Tidball designed the Cthulhu 500 card game for Atlas.[2] Tidball worked as the line developer for Decipher's The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying Game.[2] Atlas published Pieces of Eight (2006), a game designed by Tidball using coins as a game mechanic.[1]: 259  Will Hindmarch and Tidball later formed the small press company called Gameplaywright.[1]: 260  Tidball subsequently worked as the senior developer and editor for the board and card game departments at Fantasy Flight Games,[2] before returning to Atlas Games on a contract basis as chief operating officer. 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.

Tidball lives with his wife and sons in the Twin Cities area.[2]

Notable WorksRoleYear
Ars MagicaLine Developer1996
Cults Across AmericaDesigner1998
The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying GameLine Developer2002–2004
Cthulhu 500Designer2004
Pieces of EightDesigner2006
Beowulf: The Movie BoardgameDeveloper2007
Things We Think About GamesCo Author2008
Horus HeresyDesigner and Producer2010
The Bones: Us And Our DiceCo Author2010
EcotopiaDesigner and Writer2011
SkullgirlsWriter2011
League of LegendsWriter2011
Dragon Age Roleplaying Game Set 2Developer and Co-author2011
MercanteDesigner2012
Doctor Who: Time ClashDesigner2016
The White Box: A Game Design Workshop-In-A-BoxDesigner and Writer2017

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Tidball, Jeff (2007). "Car Wars". In Lowder, James (ed.). Hobby Games: The 100 Best. Green Ronin Publishing. pp. 49–51. ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0.
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