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Костикян Грег
Greg Costikyan
На английском:	Greg Costikyan
Дата рождения:	22.07.1959
Место рождения:	Нью-Йорк, США
Краткая информация: Американский игровой дизайнер, писатель

Биография

Родился 22 июля 1959 году в Нью-Йорке, США.

С 1970-х годов занимается конструированием игр.

В 1982 году окончил Брауновский университет.

До 1982 года работал в Simulation Publications.

В 1983 году работал в West End Games в качестве дизайнера игр.

В 2005 году Костикян вместе с Джонни Уилсоном основал компанию «Manifesto Games», прекратившую свою деятельность в 2011 году, где он занимал пост генерального директора.

В мае 2011 года вступил Disney Playdom в качестве старшего дизайнера игры.

В июне 2015 года вступил в должность старшего игрового дизайнера в Boss Fight Entertainment.

Читает лекции по гейм-дизайну в вузах, в том числе: Копенгаген МСЭ, Хельсинский Университет искусства и дизайна, ИРЦ, и штата Нью-Йорк Стоуни Брук.

Сочинения

Романы

• First Contract (2000)

Короткие фантастические рассказы

• They Want Our Women! (1988)
• A Fairy Tale (1989)
• Greep Bouillabaisse (1990)
• Bright Light, Big City (1991)
• After the War (1991)
• A Doe, In Charcoal (1992)
• High On Life (1992)
• Can a White Boy Sing the Blues? (1993)
• The Hart (1993)
• The Winter of Love (1993)
• Demons Aren't a Girl's Best Friend (1993)
• What Comes Naturally (1994)
• The West Is Red (1994)
• Syrup of Greep (1995)
• Our Hour of Need (1995)
• And Still She Sleeps (2000)

Эссе

• Star-spanning space opera comes to life in "Traveller: The New Era" (1994)
• Harlan Ellison's most famous tale translates compellingly from text to game (1996)
• Short Fiction Market Response Times (1992)
• Games Fen Will Play (Game Reviews) (1980)
• Games Fen Will Play (Game Reviews) (1980)
• Games Fen Will Play (Game Reviews) (1980)
• You Against the System (1981)
• Review of the rpg "Call of Cthulhu" by Chaosium, Inc. (1982)
• The 11 Billion Dollar Bottle of Wine: The Possibilities of Interstellar Trade (1982)
• Letter (Analog, May 1989) (1989)
• How to Make Big Bux Writing Elfy-Welfies (1990)
• Software Review: SimEarth: The Living Planet by Will Wright and Fred Haslam (1991)
• Short Fiction Market Response Times (SFWA Bulletin #116) (1992)
• Glace "Doc" Smith (1996)
• Pasta Puttanesca (1996)

Рецензии

• A World Between (1980) by Norman Spinrad
• Another Fine Myth (1980) by Robert Asprin
• Electric Forest (1980) by Tanith Lee
• Empire of the East (1980) by Fred Saberhagen
• Jesus on Mars (1980) by Philip José Farmer
• Tales of Neveryon (1980) by Samuel R. Delany
• The Face (1980) by Jack Vance
• The Ruins of Isis (1980) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Thieves' World (1980) by Robert Asprin
• A Shadow of All Night Falling (1980) by Glen Cook
• Catacomb Years (1980) by Michael Bishop
• Eyes of Amber and Other Stories (1980) by Joan D. Vinge
• Faith of Tarot (1980) by Piers Anthony
• God of Tarot (1980) by Piers Anthony
• Mooncrow (1980) by Jack Massa
• The Devil Wives of Li Fong (1980) by E. Hoffmann Price
• The Ennead (1980) by Jan Mark
• The Infinitive of Go (1980) by John Brunner
• The Probability Broach (1980) by L. Neil Smith
• The Trick Top Hat (1980) by Robert Anton Wilson
• The Universe Next Door (1980) by Robert Anton Wilson
• Vision of Tarot (1980) by Piers Anthony
• Wheels Within Wheels (1980) by F. Paul Wilson
• Ariosto (1980) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
• Engine Summer (1980) by John Crowley
• Mayflies (1980) by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
• Michael and the Magic Man (1980) by Kathleen M. Sidney
• Still Forms on Foxfield (1980) by Joan Slonczewski
• Sundiver (1980) by David Brin
• The Monitor, the Miners, and the Shree (1980) by Lee Killough
• Thrice Upon a Time (1980) by James P. Hogan
• Unisave (1980) by Axel Madsen
• Watchtower (1980) by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• Lord Valentine's Castle (1980) by Robert Silverberg
• All Darkness Met (1980) by Glen Cook
• Ironbrand (1980) by John Morressy
• Lifekeeper (1980) by Mike McQuay
• October's Baby (1980) by Glen Cook
• Roadmarks (1980) by Roger Zelazny
• The Dancers of Arun (1980) by Elizabeth A. Lynn
• The Light-Bearer (1980) by Sam Nicholson
• The Magic Labyrinth (1980) by Philip José Farmer
• The Man Who Corrupted Earth (1980) by G. C. Edmondson
• The Number of the Beast (1980) by Robert A. Heinlein
• The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun (1980) by Christopher Anvil
• Antinomy (1981) by Spider Robinson
• Beyond Rejection (1981) by Justin Leiber
• Leviathan's Deep (1981) by Jayge Carr
• Malafrena (1981) by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Star Driver (1981) by G. Harry Stine
• The Devil's Game (1981) by Poul Anderson
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1981) by Douglas Adams
• The Mind Game (1981) by Norman Spinrad
• Dragon's Egg (1981) by Robert L. Forward
• Expanded Universe (1981) by Robert A. Heinlein
• Myth Conceptions (1981) by Robert Asprin
• Songs from the Stars (1981) by Norman Spinrad
• Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn (1981) by Robert Asprin
• The Spellcoats (1981) by Diana Wynne Jones
• Transfigurations (1981) by Michael Bishop
• A Planet in Arms (1981) by Donald Barr
• Masks of the Illuminati (1981) by Robert Anton Wilson
• Savage Empire (1981) by Jean Lorrah
• Sword of the Lamb (1981) by M. K. Wren
• The Claw of the Conciliator (1981) by Gene Wolfe
• The Shadow of the Torturer (1981) by Gene Wolfe
• Too Long a Sacrifice (1981) by Mildred Downey Broxon
• Valis (1981) by Philip K. Dick
• Homeworld (1981) by Harry Harrison
• Space Doctor (1981) by G. Harry Stine
• Stardrifter (1981) by Dale Aycock
• Starworld (1981) by Harry Harrison
• The Trick Top Hat (1981) by Robert Anton Wilson
• Vampires of Nightworld (1981) by David Bischoff
• War Games (1981) by Karl Hansen
• Wheelworld (1981) by Harry Harrison
• Dream Park (1981) by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes
• Octagon (1981) by Fred Saberhagen
• Shadow of the Swan (1981) by M. K. Wren
• Starspinner (1981) by Dale Aycock
• Systemic Shock (1981) by Dean Ing
• The Homing Pigeons (1981) by Robert Anton Wilson
• The House Between the Worlds (1981) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• Their Majesties' Bucketeers (1981) by L. Neil Smith
• Last Communion (1982) by Nicholas Yermakov
• Lilith: A Snake in the Grass (1982) by Jack Chalker
• Long Shot for Rosinante (1982) by Alexis A. Gilliland
• Lord Darcy Investigates (1982) by Randall Garrett
• Reefs (1982) by Kevin O'Donnell, Jr.
• Shadows of Sanctuary (1982) by Robert Asprin
• Spacetime Donuts (1982) by Rudy Rucker
• Starship & Haiku (1982) by Somtow Sucharitkul
• The Elves and the Otterskin (1982) by Elizabeth Boyer
• The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle (1982) by Michael Moorcock
• The Janus Syndrome (1982) by Steven E. McDonald
• The Ring of Allaire (1982) by Susan Dexter
• The Seven Altars of Dusarra (1982) by Lawrence Watt-Evans
• Tomorrow's Heritage (1982) by Juanita Coulson
• Esbae: A Winter's Tale (1983) by Linda Haldeman
• Madwand (1983) by Roger Zelazny
• The Anarch Lords (1983) by A. Bertram Chandler
• The Morphodite (1983) by M. A. Foster
• The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1983) by Douglas Adams
• The Soul Eater (1983) by Mike Resnick
• Tintagel (1983) by Paul H. Cook
• Wolf and Iron (1990) by Gordon R. Dickson

Игры

• Web and Starship (1984)
• Toon (1984)
• Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game (1987)
• Pax Britannica (1985)
• Paranoia (1984)
• The Creature That Ate Sheboygan (1979)
• MadMaze
• Violence: The Roleplaying Game of Egregious and Repulsive Bloodshed
• The Price of Freedom (1986)

Фантастические сериалы

Cups and Sorcery

• Another Day, Another Dungeon (1990)
• One Quest, Hold the Dragons (1995)

Magic of the Plains

• By the Sword (1993)

Достижения

• В 1999 году он был занесён в «Зал славы приключенческих игр» (Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame)
• Maverick Award (2006)
• Game Developers Choice Awards (2007)

Изображения

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  Обложка игры "Toon"

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  Обложка игры Violence

Библиография

• Ролевая энциклопедия
• Веб-сайт Грега Костикяна
• ISFDB Sciense fiction