Jason Coffey

Jason Coffey (born in 1975) is an American game designer. He has been a playtester and freelance designer for over 15 years with Last Unicorn Games, Hawgleg Publishing, Mongoose Publishing, and Petroglyph Games to name a few. He has a strong interest in getting new people to play non-electronic tabletop games, and in an interactive relationship between manufacturers and players.

In the 1980's Coffey grew up playing a variety of electronic and non-electronic wargames like; Sword & the Flame, Space: 1889, Johnny Reb, Rogue Trader, OGRE, Top Secret, Star Frontiers, Traveller, Car Wars, and Battletech.

During the 1990's he worked as a CADD Draftsman for a number of Engineering firms. During that time he began to experiment with scenarios and mechanics of his own design. He worked with a number of free to play online games (MUDs), along with contributing to Last Unicorn Games product line for Star Trek. He was part of the team developing the Miniatures Skirmish game to go along with the Roleplaying game, as well as, the Wolf 359 Tactical Combat Simulator prior to the company folding.

In 2000 he moved to Las Vegas, NV and met Thomas Adams. Together they started to develop scenarios for tabletop games, along with modifications to existing rulesets, as they worked with manufacturers on playtesting existing products. They worked heavily with a handful of miniature companies to playtest GUTSHOT! by Hawgleg Publishing, Battlefield: Evolution by Mongoose Publishing, Babylon 5: A Call to Arms by Mongoose Publishing, and the revisions to the Soldier's Companion for Space: 1889 by Bob Giglio.

Coffey was previously employed (2008-2009) by Petroglyph Games in Las Vegas, NV. He worked for Chuck Kroegel on the XBOX Live title Panzer General: Allied Assault. In addition to being the secondary Game Designer on the project, he also worked to select the photos used, and to verify the historical accuracy of the 3D models. Coffey would serve as the Historical Consultant on the associated Boardgames for Panzer General: Allied Assault and its seaqual Panzer General: Russian Assault.

Jason Coffey and Thomas Adams finally decided to give it their best shot in the fall of 2009, and formed a non-electronic tabletop game company with a different spin on products. Their focus is to develop simple, cooperative, and inexpensive games to help develop new tabletop wargamers. Coffey serves as the Lead Designer at Monomer Games in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their signature product was Zombie-A-Go-Go a cooperative play Miniatures rule set for Zombie games. It was followed by a tidal wave of other manufactures Zombie products, ultimately resulting in their remaining products being unfinished.

Starting in 2017, Jason Coffey joined Sandy Dobbs efforts as Gobbotown Games. They spent several months developing a range of Cthulhu Mythos monsters for a unique "monster v. monster" skirmish game called Cthulhu Xothic Wars. Their first wave of miniatures are the Xothians, and were made available for sale in February of 2018 through their website, along with a free downloadable set of rules. Their second wave of miniatures, the Elder Things, became available in April of 2018. Finally their Core Rulebook was released in June 2018, and included some additional information on how to use a gamers existing collection of Human miniatures against the Cthulhu Mythos creatures.

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