History
J. Hunter Johnson was born January 8, 1969 in Wichita, Kansas. At age ten, he was introduced to Dungeons & Dragons. That, combined with an exposure to Isaac Asimov and John M. Ford at the local library, led to his love of role-playing games.
In 1988, he was introduced to GURPS and became an active on USENET. While working on a list of GURPS supplements, he was contacted by Steve Jackson Games for some corrections. This eventually led to a job as the first coordinator of GURPS errata which he stayed at for five years.
After leaving Steve Jackson Games, J. Hunter Johnson worked with White Wolf Publishing to develop gToons for the programmers at Cartoon Network. In the first month of release, the game had over 250,000 registered players. The key to its success is attributed to the large number of cards and interesting combinations.
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