RPG Designer / Streamer / Gamemaster

Kimi Hughes

  • Owner/Designer: Golden Lasso Games

  • Owner: Happy Jacks RPG Network

  • Streamer/Podcaster/Gamemaster

Awards & Accomplishnments

  • Gold ENnie Winner - 2023

  • GAMA Horizons Fellow - 2023

  • Finalist: Best GM - New Jersey Web Fest - 2023

  • Winner: Best Video Actual Play - Sydney Web Fest - 2023

  • Winner: Best Video Actual Play - Baltimore Next Media Fest - 2023

Golden Lasso Games

Owner & Lead Designer

Kimi is the owner and lead designer at Golden Lasso games. Her first published game, Decuma, raised nearly $55,000 on Kickstarter and won a gold ENnie in 2023. She was chosen for the prestigious Game Manufacturers Association’s Horizons Fellowship that same year, which pushed Golden Lasso Games to the next level in the industry.

Happy Jacks RPG Network

Owner & Manager

Kimi also runs the Happy Jacks RPG Network of streams and podcasts, producing and hosting a top 200 “games” podcast and dozens of successful actual plays in as many tabletop RPG systems. Her gamemastering and actual play performances have won numerous awards at festivals worldwide. She will forever be grateful for the enthusiastic Happy Jacks community who support all of her design and game publication endeavors.

Media Coverage

Guest Appearances

  • The 42 Cast

  • Saving Throw Show

  • The Critshow Podcast

  • The Redacted Files Podcast

  • She's a Super Geek Podcast

  • Saving the Game Podcast

  • Fear the Boot Podcast

  • Paid to Play Podcast

  • The Gnomecast

  • Tales from the Fandom

  • Elevating the Genre Podcast

  • Part time Fanboy Podcast

  • Nerdtastic 4 Podcast

Actual Play Campaigns

  • The Unsung Tales (GM) - The One Ring 2e

  • The Hexbreakers - Kids on Brooms

  • Idolon Academy (GM) - MASKS

  • Murmurs at the Abyss - Call of Cthulhu

  • The Seventh Vale - City of Mist

  • Wild Wild Talents (GM) - Wild Talents

  • Exodus - Mongoose Traveller

  • Vault 818 - Apocalypse Worlds 2ed.

  • Gene X - Cortex Prime Beta

  • The Kintsugi Chronicles - L5R

  • Revelations - Demigods PBTA

  • Dissension - L5R

  • Dead Reign - Palladium

  • Interpol X - Monster of the Week PBTA

  • Desert of Despair - D&D 5e

  • Just Us #Heroes - MASKS Beta

  • The Mote of Sin - Vampire the Masquerade

  • Tomorrow Legion - Savage Rifts

  • Ashes of Exodus - Mongoose Traveller

  • Saga of the Inukai - L5R

  • Ghostbusters L.A. - Savage Worlds

Film Projects

Cosplay

Kimi is a professional cosplayer, but has been on a break since the pandemic hit in 2020.

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