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Cliff Johnson
BornAugust 14, 1953
Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
OccupationGame designer
Years active1984–
Notable workThe Fool's Errand, 3 in Three

Cliff Johnson (born 1953) is an American game designer, best known for the puzzle video games The Fool's Errand (1987) and 3 in Three (1990). Both games use visual puzzles and a metapuzzle structure. Both won GAMES Magazine's Best Puzzle Game of the Year.

Biography

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.

In 1984, using his first computer, a Macintosh 512K, he learned to program and created the game The Fool's Errand, which in 1987 won "Best Puzzle Game of the Year" from GAMES Magazine and was declared "Best Retro Game Ever" by British GamesTM magazine.)

From 1990–1995, he directed the *FunHouse* production group for Philips Media, and from 1996–2001, he consulted with Mattel, Warner Bros. and Disney for online puzzles and treasure hunts.

In 2002, Johnson designed a $100,000 Challenge for the book Mysterious Stranger by street magician David Blaine. It was solved in 2004.

Authored games

Other contributed works

References

  1. ^ "Cliff Johnson". fools-errand.com. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  2. ^ Maher, Jimmy (November 20, 2015). "Cliff Johnson's Fools Errand". The Digital Antiquarian. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  3. "Retrospective: Cliff Johnson" (PDF). GamesTM. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 2005. Retrieved September 23, 2017. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |archivedate= (help)
  4. Johnson, Cliff. "Mysterious Stranger Book Excerpts". fools-errand.com. Retrieved April 29, 2023.
  5. Levy, Steven; Mello, Adrian (December 1989). "The Game Hall of Fame". Macworld. 6 (12). IDG Communications: 165–166.

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