John Peake (game designer)
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John Peake | |
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| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Game designer |
John Peake is a traditional board game maker and one of the founders of Games Workshop.
Career
[edit]In early 1975, John Peake and his school friends – Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson, who shared a Shepherd's Bush flat in London with him – wanted to make their own games; they chose the name "Games Workshop" for their company because it their intention would be to craft their games by hand.[1] Peake was a craftsman and began making backgammon games using inlaid mahogany with a cherry veneer and before long he started crafting sets for games such as mancala, nine men's morris, go, and tower of Hanoi.[1] Jackson, Livingstone and Peake began publishing the monthly games newsletter, Owl and Weasel (1975–1977), to provide support for their business.[1] Peake was not interested in the new role-playing game industry, and when he saw that Games Workshop was getting more involved with RPGs he left the company in 1976.[1]
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Ewalt, David M. (2013). Of Dice and Men: The Story of Dungeons & Dragons and The People Who Play It. Scribner. p. 97. ISBN 978-1-4516-4051-9.
- Houghton, Richard (2017). Pink Floyd: I Was There. This Day In Music Books. ISBN 978-1-7875-9054-0.
- Purchese, Robert (1 September 2022). "Without Dungeons & Dragons, Fighting Fantasy might never have existed". EuroGamer. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
- Westberg, Peter (8 May 2025). "House of Warhammer: The Inner Workings of Games Workshop". Quartr. Retrieved 29 May 2025.
- McCarthy, Dave (12 May 2012). "The History of Games Workshop". IGN. Retrieved 29 May 2025.