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Jim Bambra is a British game designer and author who has been active in the gaming industry since the late 1970s. He is best known for his work on the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, which he co-authored with Steve Jackson. He has also written and designed a number of other role-playing games, including the popular RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu. Bambra was born in 1956 in the United Kingdom. He studied at the University of East Anglia, where he earned a degree in English Literature. After graduating, he began working as a freelance writer and editor for various gaming magazines. In 1982, Bambra co-authored the first Fighting Fantasy gamebook, The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, with Steve Jackson. The gamebook was a huge success, and spawned a series of over 50 titles. Bambra also wrote and designed a number of other role-playing games, including the popular RuneQuest and Call of Cthulhu. Bambra has also written several books on gaming, including The Complete Guide to Role-Playing Games and The Complete Guide to Adventure Gaming. He has also written a number of novels, including The Dark Path and The Shadow of the Sorcerer. Bambra is currently living in the United Kingdom. He is 64 years old.

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2003

In 2003 he became managing director at Pivotal Games Ltd, a videogame development company based in Bath and owned by SCi Ltd. During his period at the firm it published the series of Conflict: videogames, the most successful of which was Conflict: Desert Storm. He remained as director until 2008, when SCi closed down the company. Between 2005 and 2009 he was also a board member of The Independent Games Developers Association Ltd.

1996

In 1996 Bambra founded Pumpkin Studios, which achieved success with Warzone 2100, a computer game with a post-nuclear scenario. This company closed in 2000 after Eidos Interactive cancelled its then current project, Saboteur, a PlayStation video game.

1990

During the 1990s he was Head of Design at MicroProse, where he worked on projects including Fields of Glory, Grand Prix, Special Forces, various X-COM products, and Gunship.

1989

In 1989, Bambra co-wrote the Fighting Fantasy gamebook Dead of Night for Puffins, a Penguin inprint, with Stephen Hand.

1983

In 1983, Bambra wrote "The Beginner’s Guide to Roleplaying Games" (with Paul Ruiz), published in Imagine magazine Issue 6 (Sept 1983), explaining what an RPG is and accompanied by a comic strip, "The Adventures of Nic Novice". He was a reviewer and writer for Imagine magazine 1983-1985, and reviewer for White Dwarf and Dragon magazines during the late 1980s and early 1990s.

1980

Jim Bambra worked on game design and materials for various companies during the 1980s and early 1990s, including TSR (publisher of Dungeons and Dragons), Games Workshop (Warhammer), and West End Games (Star Wars RPG).

1956

Jim Bambra (born 1956) is a British designer and reviewer of fantasy roleplaying games (RPG), and a former company director. He is particularly known for his contributions to Dungeons and Dragons, Fighting Fantasy, Warhammer, and Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game which was based on the Star Wars films. Later he became head of design at MicroProse, then managing director of Pivotal Games, a publisher of video games including Conflict: Desert Storm.

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