Allen Eldridge

Allen Eldridge
Allen Eldridge
Nationality	American
Occupation	Game designer

Allen D. Eldridge is a game designer who has worked primarily on board games.

Career[]

Allen Eldridge met Stephen Cole at a local game club in Amarillo, Texas, and joined Cole at his company JP Productions a few years after he founded it in 1973.^[1]^: 114 Cole and Eldridge decided to close down JP in November 1976, and the company shut down in spring of 1977.^[1]^: 114 In the fall of 1978, Cole and Eldridge co-founded Task Force Games which they used to sell only to wholesalers and retailers and not to individuals.^[1]^: 114 After Eldridge got a line on inexpensive boxes, Task Force was able to release Star Fleet Battles in a regular-sized and boxed second edition.^[1]^: 114 After Cole left Task Force in 1983 to form his new company, the Amarillo Design Bureau, Eldridge stayed with Task Force.^[1]^: 116 In April 1988, Eldridge sold Task Force Games to New World Computing.^[1]^: 117

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

[designers-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7.

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