stake in Games Workshop in 1991. In the mid-1990s Jackson spent 2.5 years as a games journalist with the London Daily Telegraph. He then set up computer games developer Lionhead Studios with Peter Molyneux. Jackson left Lionhead in 2006 when Microsoft bought the company. He is an honorary professor at Brunel University in London, where he teaches the Digital Games Theory and Design MA. He is often mistaken for the American game designer with the same name: Steve Jackson. The American Jackson wrote three books in the Fighting Fantasy series, which adds to the confusion, especially as these books were simply credited to "Steve Jackson" without any acknowledgement that it was a different person. Works Books The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (1982) with Ian Livingstone, Puffin Books Sorcery! 1–4 (1983–85), Puffin Books The Citadel of Chaos (1983), Puffin Books Starship Traveller (1984), Puffin Books House of Hell (1984), Puffin Books Fighting Fantasy: The Introductory Role-playing Game (1984), Puffin Books Appointment with F.E.A.R. (1985), Puffin Books The Tasks of Tantalon (1985), Oxford University Press Creature of Havoc (1986), Puffin Books The Trolltooth Wars (1989), Puffin Books Video games Lost Eden (1995), Virgin Interactive Close Combat: Invasion – Normandy (2000), Strategic Simulations, Inc. Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (2001), Laughing Jackal The Movies (Premiere Edition) (2005), Activision Fighting Fantasy: The Warlock of Firetop Mountain (2009), Big Blue Bubble Sorcery! 1 – The Shamutanti Hills (2013), Inkle Sorcery! 2 – Kharé – Cityport of Traps (2013), Inkle Sorcery! 3 – The Seven Serpents (2015), Inkle Sorcery! 4 – The Crown Of Kings (2016), Inkle Other BattleCards – a card game first published in 1993 that features a unique scratch-and-slay system Fantasy Interactive Scenarios by Telephone (F.I.S.T.) – a telephone-based single-player roleplaying game similar to Fighting Fantasy References External links Steve Jackson interview on Yog Radio about Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy, June 2010 1951 births Academics of Brunel University London Alumni of Keele University Board game designers British gamebook writers British retail company founders British video game designers Fighting Fantasy Games Workshop Living people Mass media people from Manchester Role-playing game designers Lionhead Studios