Summary

Greg Costikyan is a freelance game designer and game industry business consultant in New York City. He founded two companies -- Manifesto Games, an online retailer of independently created games, and Unplugged Games, one of the first North American mobile game companies. As a consultant, his clients have included Guerillapps, Sonic Boom, Playdom, the Macarthur Fondation, Games4Change, the Themis Group, Motorola, Nokia, Intel, Sarnoff Laboratories, France Telecom, and Viacom. He has designed more than 30 commercially published games in almost every form -- social, mobile, online, conventional retail release, and tabletop (ludography at www.costik.com/ludograf.html). He's won five Origins Awards, and in 2007 received the Maverick Award at GDC for "tireless promotion of independent games," and is an inductee into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame. His essay, "I Have No Words and I Must Design" is used across the globe in game studies classes, and he has written on games, game design, and game industry business issues for publications including Wall Street Journal Interactive, the New York Times, and The Escapist, as well as chapters to books including SECOND PERSON and BUSINESS AND LEGAL PRIMER FOR GAME DEVELOPMENT. He is also the author of four published science fiction novels. Plus, he makes a killer Caesar Salad.

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