GREG COSTIKYAN
Games Researcher, Nokia Research Center
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Greg Costikyan has designed more than 30 commercially published board, roleplaying, computer, online, and mobile games, including five Origins Awards Winners, 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 was co-founder of Unplugged Games, one of North America's first mobile game publishers, and currently works as a games researcher for Nokia Research Center, Nokia's research wing. He blogs about games at www.costik.com/weblog, and has written about games, game design, and game industry business issues for publications including Wall Street Journal Interactive, Salon, Game Developer magazine, Tekka, and the New York Times.