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| livingstone, ian | |
| british gamebook writers | |
| english fantasy writers | |
| officers of the order of the british empire | |
| 1949 births | |
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CAREER Games Workshop Livingstone founded Games Workshop in 1975 with flatmate Steve Jackson , and began distributing '' Dungeons & Dragons '' later that year. Under the direction of Livingstone and Jackson, Games Workshop expanded from being a bedroom mail order company to a successful gaming manufacturer and retail chain. In June 1977 , partially to advertise the opening of the first Games Workshop store, Livingstone and Jackson launched the gaming magazine '' White Dwarf '', which Livingstone also edited. They opened a number of Games Workshop stores and then Ian and Steve together with Bryan Ansell founded Citadel Miniatures in Newark to make miniatures for games. Fighting Fantasy In 1981 Jackson and Livingstone devised the concept of mixing a role playing game with a book, resulting in the ''Fighting Fantasy'' book series. The first ''Fighting Fantasy'' book was co-written by Jackson and Livingstone, but following an instruction from publishers Penguin to write more books "as quickly as possible", the pair wrote subsequent books separately. The series has sold over 14 million copies to date, with Livingstone's '' Deathtrap Dungeon '' selling over 300,000 copies in Britain alone. Video Game Industry In the mid 1980s Livingstone did some design work for video game publisher , an enhanced version of the original Tomb Raider game which is due for release in 2007. {Link without Title} AWARDS
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