John Douglas is an American senior game consultant. He majored in Art and Criminal Justice at Southwestern College. In 1969, he served in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve. In 1971, John was hired as a San Diego County Deputy Sheriff. In 1983, he founded the Bonita School of Martial Arts. In 1988, he founded Playcare, Inc. and worked in the video game industry as a technical writer and consultant. He designed the board games G. Gordon Liddy's Hardball Politics '96 in 1994, VeggieTales Puzzler in 1996, and The Omega Expedition in 1998. In 1999, joined forces with Tommy Nelson to produce The Lost Mountain of God and Adventures In Odyssey: Imagination Station. In 2002, he formed a CGI film production company, Grand Design Productions. In 2006, the company completed the animated film Sara and the Starfish and subsequently produced a spin-off series entitled Starfish Cove. In 2009, he was appointed Executive Director of the telecommunications company 4Star Wireless, Inc. In 2015, he co-founded Game Producers, Artists & Consultants, LLC (GPAC) with John F. Kaiser III.