Greg Costikyan
Game designer, Manifesto Games
Constraining Interaction to Create Emergent Narrative
Greg Costikyan has designed more than 30 commercially published board,
roleplaying, computer, online, and mobile games over 3 decades. He is the
winner of five Origins Awards (the most prestigious North American award
for non-digital games), and is an inductee into the Adventure Gaming Hall
of Fame for a lifetime of accomplishment in the field; on more than a
dozen occasions, his games have been included in the Games 100, Games
Magazine's annual round-up of the best 100 games in print. He has
written on games, game design, and game industry business issues for
many publications, including Wall Street Journal Interactive,
the New York Times, Salon, and Game Developer magazine, and is the author
of two analyst's reports about the online game business. He is also the
author of four published science fiction novels and a clutch of short
stories.
Greg Costikyan has been employed by Nokia Research Center, and has
recently started a new company, Manifesto Games
Greg maintains the weblog Game * Design * Art * Culture
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