He’s the Head of Studio at Chip Theory Games, where his responsibilities include overseeing their game development, graphic design, and project management efforts.
He’s the outgoing President of Left Justified Studio and Prolific Games, a two-headed publisher of tabletop board and card games. Marquee titles include Broken and Beautiful and Flapjacks & Sasquatches. He’s currently in the process of selling the company to an existing publisher, to be announced when the legal process is a bit further along.
He has consulted, designed, and written for a variety of game publishers and game industry companies. He specializes in strategic management processes for creative companies and processes, especially in tabletop gaming. Recent clients include Chip Theory Games, Matt Paquette & Company, GameHead, and Play All Day Games. Consulting engagements are infrequent these days.
He was co-founder — with Will Hindmarch — of Gameplaywright, a small publisher of non-fiction books about games, stories, and the work of making them. The two of them sold the imprint to Pelgrane Press at the end of 2023.
Jeff will publish Gravstrike if it kills him. It’s a miniatures board game design about hovertanks battling for sport in the arenas of the future.
Jeff co-wrote — again with Hindmarch — the ENnie Award–winning Eternal Lies campaign for Trail of Cthulhu. He designed the Fantasy Flight Games edition of the Horus Heresy board game, created the Origins Award–winning pirate coin game Pieces of Eight, co-designed (with Kenneth Hite) the indie sleeper Band or Album, and was the producer of the one-of-a-kind board game design toolkit The White Box. He’s particularly proud of his game development and producing work on Chaos in the Old World, Cursed Court, and Dice Miner.
Jeff has taught game design and producing in workshops and seminars, as well as at the Kansas City Art Institute and University of Wisconsin–Stout.
Jeff’s family is just plain fantastic, and he feels like games are more or less the greatest thing ever.