Jason Morningstar

Jason Morningstar
Occupation(s)Game designer, game publisher
EmployerBully Pulpit Games
Notable work Fiasco
AwardsDiana Jones Award, IndieCade

Jason Morningstar is an American indie role-playing game designer, publishing mostly through Bully Pulpit Games. Morningstar's games often forgo a game master and are set in situations that quickly take a turn for the worse for the player characters. Grey Ranks, for example, is about doomed child soldiers in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, and Fiasco is about impulsive crooks pulling heists that are sure to go terribly wrong. With these two games, Morningstar became the only named person to have won the Diana Jones award twice as of 2023.[1][2] He also won an IndieCade award for Desperation.[3] In addition to designing games, Morningstar works with academia and industry, consulting on using games for teaching and learning in education, with a focus on health sciences.[4][5][6]

  1. ^ Diana Jones Award 2008
  2. ^ Diana Jones award 2011
  3. ^ "Festival 2023 Award Winners – IndieCade". Retrieved 2024-10-31.
  4. ^ Morningstar, Jason. Quick and Dirty Games for Teaching and Learning in Medical Education. Presented at Innovation Learning Network Annual Meeting, 2009.
  5. ^ Morningstar, Jason. Iterative Games for Nursing Education. Presented at Kaiser-Permanente Nursing Summit, 2010.
  6. ^ Game Becomes Learning Tool for Nursing Students