Buckeye Game Fest welcomes James Ernest!
James Ernest is a prolific game designer and publisher, with more than 150 published games. He is the president of Cheapass Games, co-founder of Lone Shark Games, and has worked as a computer game designer at Microsoft and The Amazing Society. He also co-writes the Web comic Brian and John, at www.brianandjohn.com.
From 1996 to 2006, Cheapass Games published more than 100 original games, including Origins Award winners Give Me the Brain, Button Men, BRAWL, and Diceland. During the same period James Ernest also designed games for other publishers, including Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, Fleer, GAMES
Magazine, Microsoft, and Steve Jackson Games.
In 2004, James Ernest and design partner Mike Selinker founded Lone Shark Games, a gaming and entertainment studio responsible for several popular board and card games. James and Mike’s most recent board game is Lords of Vegas, from Mayfair, an Origins Award nominee for Best Board Game 
of 2010.
In 2011 James Ernest rebooted Cheapass Games by issuing many of his most popular titles as PDFs. Cheapass fans are encouraged to download, print, and share these games absolutely free. They are welcome, of course, to support Cheapass Games through donations, and by spreading the word. Check out the new games at www.cheapass.com.
