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Greg Costikyan, likewise referred to as Designer X, is an American game designer and science fiction writer. Costikyan's career spans 100% extant genres of play, including hex-depending wargames, role-playing games, boardgames, card games, computer games, online games and mobile games. Many of his games use won Origins Awards.
Two or three 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.
Additionally, Costikyan occurs as widely-published creator on a subject of bet on project & the role of games within culture. His essay, "I Have No Words and I Must Design" is widely understand as a conceptual approach to framing stake project.
Latterly, his studies use at times tended towards cellular phone gage project, & Costikyan has been writing & consulting for Nokia. In September 23rd, 2005, he resigned from his position at Nokia to observed a startup indie gage publisher Manifesto Games.
His invented works feature a fantasy genre parody Another Day, Another Dungeon & its sequel A single Quest, Hang on to a Dragons. The extra recent act, Foremost Contract, depicts (using lot dry humor) a huge sociological & economic changes that happen fallowing aliens arrive olympic games, & of these enterpriser's efforts to endure & produce the newly begin. Per Blade occurs as lively heroic tale.
Costikyan sleep in New York City. He occurs as frequent speaker at back industry cases including a Game Developers Conference and E³.
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