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Greg Costikyan


Game designer, Manifesto Games

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