Justin D. Jacobson
Justin D. Jacobson is an attorney and professional game designer.
Career
Justin D. Jacobson is an attorney,[1]:425 and was the owner and operator of Blue Devil Games, publishers of role-playing games and strategy games. He is best known as the designer of Poisoncraft: The Dark Art, Dawning Star, and Passages, and the winner of the About.com 2004 Shared Pieces Design Competition for Golem.
In 2004, Blue Devil Games was one of the seven companies working with Indie Press Revolution as a fulfillment house serving "independent" publishers by warehousing, selling, and shipping their books direct to customers.[1]:408 Jacobson joined with Fred Hicks and Rob Donoghue of Evil Hat Productions and Chris Hanrahan in 2008 to form the game company One Bad Egg, with a goal to publish high-quality PDFs for 4th edition Dungeons & Dragons that supported storytelling; sales were bad, and Hicks announced in September 2009 that One Bad Egg was closing down.[1]:425
Jacobson is now the president of Restoration Games, a tabletop game publishing company, specializing in out-of-print mass-market games from the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.