Biography 

Christopher Joel Bledsoe was born and raised in Kennet Square Pennsylvania. Growing up, he had many passions in life. Music, motorcycles, gaming and comic books. He started working at a local comic book store near his home.

While working there he met Bob Watts, owner of Heartbreaker Hobbies. Heartbreaker was Chris’s entry into the gaming world as a designer. He excelled there at helping to bring their two flagship miniatures games with Target Games AB to the forefront of the gaming world- Mutant Chronicles Warzone, and Chronopia.

From there, Chris went on to work for Ral Partha Miniatures, helping to get their game Vor: The Maelstrom launched. It was here that he met his future wife Stacey as well. Chris and Stacey left Ral Partha and returned to PA where he returned to retail work. It was then that his cancer was first diagnosed.

Chris had Non Hodgkins Lymphoma, centered in his chest. He underwent several aggressive rounds of chemotherapy, and went into remission. Seizing the second chance he had been given Chris, along with Stacey and his father Joel formed ZN Games. They added a fourth partner in Jeremy Webb, who had also worked with Chris both at Showcase and Heartbreaker and went to the GAMA trade show in Las Vegas to officially launch the company. Chris and Stacey wed there in true Vegas style, giving their vows under the officiation of the King himself. This was March of 2002. Then, the unthinkable happened.

Chris’s cancer had relapsed and was much worse. He immediately began a very aggressive series of chemotherapy treatments, but it sadly proved too much for his body to handle. He passed that August. Stacy, Joel and Jeremy made the decision to shutter ZN, going on with Chris was too much to consider.

Jeremy and several of Chris’s friends from the gaming community have done things over the years to honor his memory. CJBM is the latest effort by Jeremy to raise funds to battle the disease that took his friend from him 21 years ago this August.