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Cliff Johnson (born 1953)[2] game designer , best known for the puzzle video games The Fool's Errand 3 in Three GAMES Magazine ' s Best Puzzle Game of the Year.
Biography
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Johnson was born August 14, 1953, in Hanover, New Hampshire , the only child of Norman and Leatrice Johnson. He attended Bristol Eastern High School in Connecticut , where he started making Super 8 movies. In 1972, he had jobs "building monsters" for five different amusement parks. He later attended University of Southern California 's film school, where he became a teaching assistant in animation and created some of the Monty Pythonesque animations for Nickelodeon 's television series Out of Control [1] [2]
In 1984, using his first computer, a Macintosh 512K , he learned to program and created the game The Fool's Errand GAMES Magazine GamesTM [3]
From 1990 to 1995, he directed the *FunHouse* production group for Philips Media , and from 1996 to 2001, he consulted with Mattel , Warner Bros. and Disney for online puzzles and treasure hunts.[1]
In 2002, Johnson designed a $100,000 Challenge for the book Mysterious Stranger David Blaine . It was solved in 2004.[4]
Authored games
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Other contributed works
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References
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^ "Retrospective: Cliff Johnson" (PDF) . GamesTM. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2005-11-03. Retrieved September 23, 2017 .
^ Johnson, Cliff. "Mysterious Stranger Book Excerpts" . fools-errand.com. Retrieved April 29, 2023 .
^ Levy, Steven ; Mello, Adrian (December 1989). "The Game Hall of Fame". Macworld 6 12 ). IDG Communications : 165–166.
External links
[ edit ] R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cliff_Johnson_(game_designer)&oldid=1216160516 " C a t e g o r i e s : ● 1 9 5 3 b i r t h s ● L i v i n g p e o p l e ● A m e r i c a n v i d e o g a m e d e s i g n e r s ● P u z z l e d e s i g n e r s ● U S C S c h o o l o f C i n e m a t i c A r t s a l u m n i ● P e o p l e f r o m H a n o v e r , N e w H a m p s h i r e ● P e o p l e f r o m B r i s t o l , C o n n e c t i c u t H i d d e n c a t e g o r i e s : ● A r t i c l e s w i t h s h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n ● S h o r t d e s c r i p t i o n m a t c h e s W i k i d a t a ● A r t i c l e s w i t h h C a r d s
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a d d i t i o n a l t e r m s m a y a p p l y . B y u s i n g t h i s s i t e , y o u a g r e e t o t h e T e r m s o f U s e a n d P r i v a c y P o l i c y . W i k i p e d i a ® i s a r e g i s t e r e d t r a d e m a r k o f t h e W i k i m e d i a F o u n d a t i o n , I n c . , a n o n - p r o f i t o r g a n i z a t i o n . ● P r i v a c y p o l i c y ● A b o u t W i k i p e d i a ● D i s c l a i m e r s ● C o n t a c t W i k i p e d i a ● C o d e o f C o n d u c t ● D e v e l o p e r s ● S t a t i s t i c s ● C o o k i e s t a t e m e n t ● M o b i l e v i e w
