Steve Jackson Games

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Steve Jackson Games Incorporated

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 1980
Seat Austin , Texas , USA
management Steve Jackson
Number of employees 43
sales $ 8.8 million
Branch pen & paper RPG , board games , card games , digital books etc.
Website www.sjgames.com

Steve Jackson Games (SJG) is an American game publisher that publishes role-playing games , board games and card games .

The enterprise

SJG was founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson (not to be confused with the Englishman of the same name , who is a co-founder of the competitor Games Workshop ). The 43 full-time employees (as of the end of 2013) are supported by a number of freelancers (for example, the artist John Kovalic designed all of the Munchkin cards in the original American version).

SJG is also behind the game mail order company Warehouse 23 and the download platform e23 , on which game material is sold in digital form. The company relied on computers and data networks early on to test games, support customers and provide a forum for fans: On April 1, 1986, the Illuminati Online mailbox went online in Austin. According to Steve Jackson Games, the mailbox had more than 1000 users. From 1993 Illuminati Online offered Internet access to 7,000 subscribers in Austin and Houston as an Internet provider, and in 2004 the provider Prismnet took over the company.

The main sources of income

Company logo on the entrance portal of the SJG headquarters

The most important source of income for the company are the titles in the Munchkin card game series , which alone accounted for 75% of sales in the 2013 financial year. Another important source of sales are dice games, which brought in 7.6% of total sales in the 2013 financial year. Steve Jackson Games publishes new material for the universal role-playing game system GURPS , mainly as PDF downloads; 20 new editions for the system appeared in 2013 alone.

The license income ( Munchkin , for example, is available in 16 languages, SJG only sells the English version) and the e23 download platform , which has been the world's second largest provider of game material downloads since 2006, generated a further large part of the income.

SJG in Germany

The following titles are distributed in German by Pegasus Spiele GmbH :

The following systems were sold by Fantasy Productions Verlags- und Medienvertriebsgesellschaft mbH , but their production has already been discontinued:

In addition, you can always find US imports in well-stocked game stores.

List of games distributed by SJG

Board games

  • The Awful Green Things From Outer Space
  • Car Wars (futuristic battles between cars)
  • Dork Tower (with the characters from the comic of the same name)
  • Ask ("first first-person shooter without a computer")
  • GreedQuest
  • Knightmare Chess (Chess variant with playing cards)
  • Kung fu 2100
  • Ogre (simulation of a futuristic war)
  • Ogre: GEV
  • Shockwave (Ogre Extension)
  • Snits
  • Star Traders
  • Strange Synergy
  • X-Bugs (developed by the Italian company TM Nexus Editrice srl.)

Card games

  • Battle cattle
  • Burn in Hell
  • Car Wars (developed from the miniature system)
  • Chez Geek and its extensions / variations:
    • Chez Dork (with the characters from the comic " Dork Tower " by John Kovalic )
    • Chez Goth
    • Chez Greek (Student Associations)
    • Chez Grunt (in the army)
    • Chez Guevara (among the Latin American revolutionaries)
    • Chez Cthulhu (with followers of the Cthulhu myth)
  • Cowpoker
  • Dino Hunt
  • hacker
  • Illuminati
  • Illuminati - New World Order
  • Illuminati Crime Lords
  • King's Blood
  • Knightmare Chess
  • Munchkin , a parody of hack and slash RPG, and its expansions:
    • Munchkin Bites!
    • Munchkin Blender
    • Munchkin Booty!
    • Munchkin Cthulhu
    • Munchkin Fu
    • Munchkin Impossible
    • Star Munchkin
    • Great munchkin
    • The Good, the Bad, and the Munchkin
  • Ninja burger
  • SPANC (Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls)
  • Spooks

Oddities

Online games

Role play

  • GURPS (Generic Universal RPG System)
  • In Nomine (with angels and devils; based on the French role-playing game Magna Veritas / In Nomine Satanis)
  • killer
  • Munchkin RPG
  • Toon (with cartoon characters)
  • Transhuman Space
  • Tribes

Chess games

  • Knightmare Chess (see card games)
  • Tile Chess (chess variant for up to 6 players)
  • Proteus (chess with dice instead of pieces)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steve Jackson Games: A Brief History of the Illuminati BBS. Retrieved May 25, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Steve Jackson: Report to the Stakeholders 2013 , accessed December 21, 2014