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Greg Costikyan, also known as Designer X, is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including hex-based wargames, role-playing games, boardgames, card games, computer games, online games and mobile games. Several of his games have won Origins Awards. A game designer is a person who designs games. ...
Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
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Internet games (also known as online games) are games that are played online via the Internet. ...
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Origins International Game Expo is one of North Americas most prominent annual gaming conventions, second in size only to (Gen Con. ...
A few of Costikyan's notable works include Toon, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Pax Britannica, Paranoia and Violence: The Roleplaying Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed. Toon is a role-playing game in which the players take the roles of cartoon characters. ...
Pax Britannica (Latin for the British Peace, modelled after Pax Romana) refers to a period of British imperialism after the Battle of Waterloo and the War of 1812, which led to a period of overseas British expansionism. ...
Paranoia is a humorous role playing game set in a dystopian future similar to 1984, Brazil, Brave New World and especially Logans Run; however, the tone of the game is rife with black humor, frequently tongue-in-cheek rather than dark and heavy. ...
A short, 32-page roleplaying game written by Greg Costikyan under the pseudonym of Designer X and published by Hogshead Publishing as part of its New Style line of games. ...
In addition, Costikyan is a widely-published author on the subject of game design and the role of games in culture. His essay, "I Have No Words and I Must Design" is widely read as a conceptual approach to framing game design.
Lately, his studies have tended towards mobile phone game design, and Costikyan has been writing and consulting for Nokia. Nokia Corporation (NYSE: NOK) is one of the worlds largest telecommunications equipment manufacturers. ...
Costikyan lives in New York City. He is a frequent speaker at game industry events including the Game Developers Conference and E³. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ...
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is an annual gathering of video game developers. ...
E³ logo The Electronic Entertainment Expo (or Exposition), commonly known as E³ or E3 , is the worlds largest annual trade show for the computer and video games industry. ...
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