Weathervane Games

Weathervane Games is a game design studio and publisher founded by Jeff Irving in 2021. Our primary focus is creating and publishing our own game titles, however we are accepting inquiries to work with other designers to bring their games and ideas to life as well. We also offer licensing opportunities with our proprietary Harbinger 3D Terrain System and Vrahode Game System. Weathervane Games is located in Whitefish, Montana.

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Jeff Irving
Found - Writer - Game Designer

I am a Muncie, Indiana native and graduated from local Ball State University in graphic design and journalism. A lifelong gamer and fantasy and science fiction fan, I played my first RPG at ten (original yellow cardstock cover AD&D) and was immediately addicted to the genre.

As a creative in college, and having devoured as many 80s fantasy novels as I could get my hands on, I began to long for a fresh take on a fantasy setting, and the world of Vrahode was born (1990)! It started mostly as a series of anthropological and sociological studies of various fantasy races. After college, I spent eleven years as a lead graphic designer for a large Midwest corporation. During that time, the world, lore, and history of Vrahode continued to develop and unfold in secret.

Several catalysts led me to where I am now. Probably the most important was meeting my amazing wife, Kristin, who believed in me and my creativity. In 2019, I began work on developing an affordable and modular 3D terrain system called Harbinger, which I wanted to be my contribution to the board game industry. That, in turn, reinvigorated my desire to create a series of games about Vrahode and to be the first to employ the Harbinger system within that game world. At that point, I also realized that, while I was a decent writer, I wasn’t able to get the words out fast enough and needed to enlist the help of a true epic fantasy writer. Shawn Dressler joined the team and began learning the vast lore that had been in my head since 1990. Since then, we have been mostly focused on developing the Vrahode Game System, the Harbinger 3D Terrain System, and a few other peripheral games. We look forward to sharing our creative passions with gamers soon and elevating the hobby we truly love!