John is an urban board game nerd who frequently masquerades as a tough outdoorsman by backpacking over the Sierra Nevada mountains or bicycling across the United States. Enjoying the sunshine and great people, he lives in Los Angeles and designs board games all of the time and does data analytics some of the time. John invented the Card Crafting System™ that is used in his games Mystic Vale, Edge of Darkness, and Custom Heroes, as well as non-card crafting games like Space Base and Downfall. He has worked closely with Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG), a board game publisher, since he pitched them the original card crafting concept in 2014. In his spare time he continues obsessively designing and playing board games. He is terrible at golf, passable at tennis, and used to be pretty good at baseball. Homeschooled as a youth, he likes to think he appears normal in public and has somehow managed to get married to a wonderful woman, Csilla, who encourages his board game obsession and makes him happy.