Greg Costikyan is the designer of more than 30 commercially published games, ranging from tabletop to PC to free-to-play mobile. He is the recipient of the GDC Maverick Award (for "tireless promotion of independent games"), and of five Origins Awards for his tabletop work. He has written for publications as diverse as Wall Street Journal Interactive, The Escapist, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Reason, Game Developer, and, of course, Adventure Game Hotspot. His book Uncertainty in Games  is available from MIT University Press, and his professional website is at http://costik.com.