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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. 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Steve Jackson is a games reviewer and writer is one of the best known authors in the gaming industry. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... White Dwarf is a magazine published by British games manufacturer Games Workshop. ...

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. Bryan Ansell is a British roleplaying and wargame designer. ... The Citadel Miniatures Logo Citadel Miniatures Limited is a producer of metal and plastic miniatures for tabletop wargames, such as Warhammer Fantasy Battle. ...

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. 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ... Deathtrap Dungeon (ISBN 0140317082) is a single player roleplaying gamebook, written by Ian Livingstone, illustrated by Ian McCaig and originally published in 1984. ...

Video Game Industry

In the mid 1980s Livingstone did some design work for video game publisher Domark, and in 1993 he returned to the company, this time as a major investor and board member. In 1995 Domark was acquired by the video technology company Eidos plc, which had floated on the London Stock Exchange in 1990, and formed the major part of the newly created Eidos Interactive. Livingstone left Eidos in May 2005 after the company was taken over by SCi. He then joined SCi in September, the only former Eidos board member to be asked back, taking on the role of product acquisition director. He is currently contributing to the latest Tomb Raider project entitled Tomb Raider: Anniversary, an enhanced version of the original Tomb Raider game which is due for release in 2007.[1] Domark was a computer and video games software house based in Britain. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Source by Greyworld, in the new LSE building Paternoster Square. ... Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and computer games based in the United Kingdom. ... SCI may stand for: Sales Curve Interactive, a video game developer Scalable Coherent Interconnect Science Citation Index Sensitive Compartmented Information Serial Communication Interface Service Civil International Sierras Creative Interpreter Society of Chemical Industry Spinal cord injury Structure Conservation Index Science (as in comp sci or bio sci) String Cheese... Tomb Raider is a video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. ...

Awards

• In 2002, Livingstone won the Gift of the Academy in the BAFTA Interactive Entertainment Awards for outstanding contribution to the community.

• Livingstone was awarded an Order of the British Empire, for "Services to the Computer Games Industry" in the New Years Honours List 2006.

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External links

• Biography
• Interview about the Fighting Fantasy series
• GameSpot Interview - Interview with GameSpot about the Tomb Raider series and the console wars
• Ian Livingstone's profile at MobyGames