Editor in Chief
Greg Costikyan (costik)
Greg is CEO of Manifesto Games and the designer of more than 30 commercially published games. Prior to founding Manifesto, he was a games researcher for Nokia; and before that, was the founder of Unplugged Games, one of the first mobile game start-ups. He is the winner of five Origins Awards, the Maverick award, and is an inductee into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame. He's also a science fiction novelist.
Managing Editor
Patrick Dugan (the99th)
Patrick Dugan is a game designer and writer who focuses on the power of games to educate, challenge worldviews, and change the world. He's currently involved in a global conspiracy to summon Azathoth through a huge MMO ritual. He's willing to hear offers from Yog Sothoth.
Contributing Editors
Emily Short (EmilyShort)
Her Wikipedia entry.
Robert August de Meijer (RobertAugustdeMeijer)
Robert studies literature at the University of Utrecht. Which also means he has to read a lot of books, even in his free time. That's his excuse for never having time to play all the new videogames being released on the new consoles. Actually, he just can't stand 3D graphics, loading times and cinematics. Luckily, he still loves games when they're focussed on being "fun", like the games on this website or good ol' Street Fighter. When not reading literature or playing games, he's probably reading literature about games.
Paul Eres (RinkuHero) is a game designer with Radical Poesis Games & Creations, originally founded to improve people through the games they play. Some of their games are Immortal Defense, Fedora Spade, Alphasix, Missing, Sword of Jade.
He also keeps a LiveJournal.
Eleanor Lang (RedEl)
A public relations professional, Ms. Lang has worked in publishing, comics, games and technology. She has worked with Random House, DC Comics, Neil Gaiman, Arthur C. Clarke, Crossover Technologies, and has been with Manifesto Games since the company's inception. She also founded the Impact line reprinting classic works of science fiction for Del Rey Books.
Jim Bennett (Therum)
Jim Bennett is an amateur writer and director, as well as an aspiring game designer. He enjoys everything from text adventures to shmups to first person shooters. His favorite games include Shadow of the Colossus, Cave Story, Sin and Punishment, Super Mario World, Gunstar Heroes, Ben Croshaw's John DeFoe series, and, though he is ashamed to admit it, Kingdom Hearts 2. Jim lives in Connecticut.
Robert Rossney (rbr)
Robert Rossney is a software developer (often), journalist (rarely), and owner of far too many board games (always). Subjects he can be a bore on include: how the Assize of Clarendon prefigures The Dukes of Hazzard, how he knows he was the first person ever to get an email address printed in the San Francisco Chronicle, why you should give Gene Wolfe's The Book of the Long Sun another try, Bob Pfeifer's federal obstruction-of-justice charge, why collectible card games aren't fun, the genius of Karl-Heinz Schmiel, slavery (he's against it), single-payer health insurance (he's for it), and XSLT (he's in recovery). His plangent bleatings can very occasionally be found at www.koaxkoaxkoax.com.
Sage LaTorra (sage) was a mystery wrapped in an enigma, but then this bio was written. His degrees say he's a computer scientist from New Mexico Tech, and his hobbies make him a gamer. He likes games that convey knowledge in some way and is waiting for someone to develop Donald Knuth's The Art Of Computer Programming: Kart Racing. Software developer by day (and occasionally by night too), he enjoys all types of games and likes to think that he looks at them with a critic's eye. He is currently hoping that the critic doesn't ask for his eye back.
