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Special Guests
Tom Jolly has been coming up with games since 1985, starting with Wiz-War,
and following with GOOTMU, Knots, Programmer's Nightmare, Drakon,
Cavetroll, and Lightspeed, codesigning Diskwars and Vortex. His real job
(so he can buy food and make housepayments) is as an Electrical Engineer
at Lockheed-Martin, building death-rays and antigravity machines. He
continues to design games even as you read this, subjecting his friends to
unending playtests of bad designs to find the one gem that might be
publishable. He also has aspirations to get a book published, but that is
still in the future, and unknowable. Most importantly, he also was part of
the crew that created the first 3 Polycons!
Dan George cut his teeth in the gaming world back in the 80's where he
spent endless nights with his buddies playing role playing and strategy
games. Soon, like many games, he began making 'improvements' to the games
he played, often combining the best elements of two or more games.
In 1990 Dan founded Arcatacon, the largest gaming convention in northern
California at that time. He held the event at Humboldt State and
attracted over 800 attendees each year.
Dan founded August Games in 1992 during the birth of the internet where he
published Bloodthirsty Capitalist Backstabbing Hogs for free on the web.
Dan saw it as the perfect opportunity to promote non-electronic gaming and
hook up with fellow gamers. August Games is dedicated to the production
of fun, well-designed games. His current projects are Road-Kill Rally,
War of Sail, Dungeon Zombie Brawl and Bloodthirsty Capital Backstabbing
Hogs II.
Dan is now a resident of Santa Maria, California where he lives with his
wife of ten years and two kids.
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