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J. Hunter Johnson (born January 8, 1969) is a freelance American game designer, author, and translator. He has translated many game rules and websites from German for Mayfair Games. He has authored or co-authored six books for Steve Jackson Games, including ''GURPS Monsters'' and ''GURPS Japan'' and designed two games for White Wolf Publishing, including gToons, which proved popular among children on Cartoon Network's ''Cartoon Orbit'' children's website and left an impact on how such websites use digital trading cards for online gaming. ==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.〔 During his time at Steve Jackson Games, Johnson authored, co-authored, or contributed to seven books (see ''Bibliography'' below) for the company's ''GURPS'' role-playing game. He also served as development coordinator for the company's ''Knightmare Chess'' 2nd edition card game.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://web.archive.org/web/20050228135846/http://www.pen-paper.net/gamedb.php?op=showothergame&othergameid=5 )〕 After leaving Steve Jackson Games, Johnson worked for White Wolf Publishing, where he designed gToons for the programmers at Cartoon Network. Prior to the introduction of gToons, the Cartoon Network's website, ''Cartoon Orbit'', had implemented a system of offering collectible digital trading cards (called cToons) and providing a means of trading them with other users of the website. Introduced in October 2002, ''Cartoon Orbit's'' gToons took the digital trading cards concept and made it into a game, using new gToons cards, where website users could play each other head-to-head. In 2013, Johnson had teamed up with a new development and business partner, Sebastian Chedal, and the pair introduced a new online game, called Quizgle.com. The original concept was Chedal's. "He does the interfacing and I have a background in database. He was looking for someone to do the back end of it," said Johnson in a 2013 interview. The game's interface displays results of a simulated web search, and the player tries to guess the search terms used to get the results shown. The game's online legal page describes the game as a tribute to Google while disclaiming any affiliation with them. The site reads, "Quizgle is a tribute to that daily experience we all share when we pull up our favorite search engine to ask the world a question." In June 2013, Johnson and Chedal were working on improvements in the game. As of August 2014, the game was still in beta, though some of the planned improvements had been implemented.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「J. Hunter Johnson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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