Jesper Myrfors

Jesper Myrfors (born c. 1964 in Sweden) is a founding member of Hidden City Games and Clout Fantasy.

Career

He was the original art director for Magic: The Gathering,[1] and several of that game's initial expansions. He also has several game designs to his credit, including the Magic expansion The Dark and The Hills Rise Wild (co-designed by John Scott Tynes). Myrfors graduated from Cornish College of the Arts with a BFA in illustration and is a two time winner of the GAMA award for graphic design and art direction.

Myrfors lived in Snohomish, Washington, while working as chief creative officer for Hidden City Games, publisher of the game he created in 2005, Clout Fantasy.[2][3][4][5] He later moved to Mercer Island, Washington, where he works as chief creative officer for Aspect Arts Studio.

Roleplaying game credits

Other game credits
gollark: I've been meaning to make a useful utility library but never got to it.
gollark: I think the potatOS one returns a table, doesn't include the separator, and uses a string as a separator, not a pattern.
gollark: PotatOS lets you split strings with the division operator.
gollark: (I'm going to come up with more eventually)
gollark: ██████ Siri is a dangerous and advanced artificially intelligent system believed to have originated from a project to add an "AI" assistant to Opus OS to help with common tasks. Initial testing versions appeared helpful and were being considered for release, but the project was shut down after its computation began to take up a large amount of server tick time even when not used.

References
  1. O'Hara, Delia (March 19, 1995). "A Magic Start", Chicago Sun-Times, p. 3nc.
  2. Corliss, Bryan (March 21, 2005). "Got game: Bored with retirement, former Wizards of the Coast art director Jesper Myrfors of Snohomish likes the chances of his new chip-tossing game 'Clout Fantasy'", The Herald.
  3. Corliss, Bryan (March 15, 2006). "More punch to Clout", The Herald.
  4. Corliss, Bryan (November 7, 2005). "Now entering a new fantasy", The Herald.
  5. Chiu, Lisa (May 6, 2006). ""Wizards" conjuring up old magic: making games", The Seattle Times. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  • "Jesper Myrfors :: Pen & Paper RPG Database". Archived from the original on February 25, 2005. Retrieved May 27, 2006.
  • Hidden City Games
  • Jesper Myrfors at BoardGameGeek
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