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• Ernest W. Adams
• Edward Castronova
• Greg Costikyan
• Gonzalo Frasca
• Tracy Fullerton
• Henry Jenkins
• Aki Järvinen
• Sampo Karjalainen
• Jami Laes
• Jane McGonigal
• Jessica Mulligan
• Frans Mäyrä
• Katie Salen
• Christa Sommerer
• Tom Söderlund
• Mika Tuomola
• Catherine Warren
• Dmitri Williams

Jessica Mulligan

Executive Consultant, Online Games

• Designing Stories for Connected World: Where the Designer's Storytelling Stops and the Player's Begins

• This Is Your Life: Virtual Gaming and the New Reality

• Story Game Workshop 2: The New Reality: Perception Is the Story

Jessica Mulligan is a 20-year veteran of the online games industry. Recently as Executive Producer and Creative Director at Turbine Entertainment, she oversaw the award-winning MMORPG franchise, Asheron's Call. Before Turbine, Ms. Mulligan held a number of positions within the games industry, including president of The Themis Group, vice-president of development for Engage Games Online, director of online services for Interplay Productions, a director on Ultima Online for Electronic Arts and director of operations at MM3D, Inc on the Middle Earth Online project. Ms. Mulligan has been involved in the design, development or management of more than 50 online games, including a dozen persistent worlds.

A respected writer on industry issues, she was the author of the popular "Biting the Hand" column on Skotos.net for over six years. Her most recent book, "Developing Online Games: An Insider's Guide," with co-author Bridgette Patrovsky (bridgette@mm3d.com), was released in the US by New Riders in March 2003 and has since been published in localized versions worldwide, including Korean and Chinese. Ms. Mulligan can be reached at jessmull@ureach.com.