Jim Deacove

Jim was born in 1939 on a farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. In those days, school started at age 6, which meant he had an extra year to play. His mother says that was when he began inventing games. During his second year at the university he invented a board game that involved saving the world... and took three days to play. Later he noticed that his two kids worked together well when they helped in the garden but squabbled when they played any of the usual games. He thus went to a local game store to find a game that would make them be nicer to each other. But the owner told him that there was no such game in his entire store. So Jim started creating cooperative games (and a small business in his living room, that grew and grew). 55 years and 140 games later, his Mother asks « Jim when are you going to stop playing games and get a real job? »