Guests of UK Games Expo

Steve Jackson

We are delighted to have a visit from Steve Jackson co-creator of the Fighting Fantsy Books who are also exhibiting at UK Games Expo. Steve and Ian Livingstone (see below) will be signing books and will give a talk about the Fighting Fantasy Books.

In early 1975, Steve Jackson co-founded the company Games Workshop with John Peake and Ian Livingstone. In 1980, he created the line of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks published by Puffin Books with Ian. Steve now works at Lionhead Studios, which he founded with Peter Molyneux. He is also an honorary lecturer at Brunel University in London, teaching the Digital Games Theory and Design MA.

Ian Livingstone

We are delighted to have a visit from Ian Livingstone co-creator of the Fighting Fantsy Books who are also exhibiting at UK Games Expo. Ian and Steve Jackson (see above) will be signing books and will give a talk about the Fighting Fantasy Books.

Ian Livingstone OBE (born December 1949 in Prestbury, Cheshire, England) is an English fantasy author and entrepreneur. He is a co-writer of the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and co-founder of Games Workshop.

Tobias Stapelfeldt aka Glomeor of Eggertspiele

UK Games Expo will host the UK release at UK Games Expo of their new game Speicherstadt and we are very pleased that one of the company's main games editors Tobia Stapelfeldt will be demoing the game at Expo.

From Tobias' Bio page on the Eggerspiele games site:

I am Tobias Stapelfeldt and I’ve been with eggertspiele since they published my game “Neuland” in 2004. One of my principles when inventing games is: a new game has to offer something strikingly new or you just don’t need it.

These days, I accompany eggertspiele’s new games as an editor, starting with the first prototype an author presents us with and up to the finished box at the Games Fair in Essen or Nuremberg. Games that incorporate eggertspiele’s key characteristics of being high-quality, unique and sophisticated, can also regularly be found on the table of my private gaming groups.

In the rest of my life I am a teacher of mathematics and physics at a comprehensive school in Hamburg. Beside my classes, I am keenly interested in school improvement. For instance, I lobby for the subject of mathematics, which still scares so many, to lose some of its terror and even become fun.

Any questions? glomeor@eggertspiele.de

Mark Barrowcliffe

Mark Barrowcliffe grew up in Coventry. He worked as a journalist and also as a stand-up comedian before giving it all up to write his first novel, Girlfriend 44.

Under the pen name of MD Lachland,
Mark has recently released Wollsangel.

There will be live readings at Expo and
Mark will be signing copies of the book.

For more on Mark go to: http://www.mdlachlan.com/

Stephen Deas

Stephen Deas as an author of fantasy literature. His current work is
a dragon-based trilogy.

The Adamantine Palace was published in March 2009 and the paperback was Waterstone's Science Fiction & Fantasy book of the month for February this year.

The King of the Crags will be out in April this year.

The Thief-Taker's Apprentice will come out in August this year.

Gavin Smith

Gavin Smith was born in Dundee some 36 years ago. With a degree in Media Production (specialising in script writing) and a MA in Medieval history he describes himself as the worst person in the world to watch a historical movie with. He runs a marketing company from home in leicester and Veteran is his first novel.

Alessio Cavatore

After studying biology at Turin's university, Alessio Cavatore has moved to the UK at age 25 to work as a translator for Games Workshop.

One year later he became a games developer, and has continued to do that job for the last twelve years. For Games Workshop he has worked on several game systems and supplements, like Warhammer Fantasy Battle, Warhammer 40,000 and the Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game.

He is now a part-time rules editor for Games Workshop, and in his spare time he is learning to be a dad and has founded a boardgame company, River Horse LLP , in order to publish games of his own making. The first one is Shuuro, the game of creative chess.

Neil Roberts

Neil Roberts, aka SkinnyElbows, is the cover artist on the NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING Horus Heresy series. he is also a freelance artist/ illustrator/ sculptor/ comic artist and 3D artist with over 10 years experience in Games and Illustration. Projects include 2000AD (Rebellion), Horus Heresy (Black Library), Warmachine (Privateer Press), Judge Dredd RPG (Mongoose Publishing) and Classic Battletech (Catalyst Games).