Greg Costikyan, also known as Designer X, is an American game designer and science-fiction writer.[1] Costikyan's career spans nearly all extant genres of gaming, including hex-based wargames, role-playing games, board games, card games, computer games, online games and mobile games. Several of his games have won Origins Awards. Costikyan was the game designer for the original version of Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, and is credited under "original design" for its subsequent editions.
Games
Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
Greg Costikyan is credited on the following West End Games books:
- Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game (credited with "design")
- The Star Wars Sourcebook (credited with "additional development")
- Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition (credited with "original design")
- Tales of the Jedi Companion (credited with "Original Force Power Design")
- The Jedi Academy Sourcebook (credited, along with Greg Gorden, with "Additional Design" for the Force powers "Contort/escape," "Force of will," and "Shift sense")
- Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded (credited with "original design")
His work on the first edition of Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game was recognized with an Origins Award for Best Role-playing Rules of 1987.[2]
Sources
Notes and references
- ↑
Ludography of Greg Costikyan on www.pen-paper.net (backup link archived on May 23, 2003)
- ↑ Origins Award Winners (1987) on www.originsgamefair.com (backup link archived on April 15, 2008)
External links
Greg Costikyan on Wikipedia- Greg Costikyan's homepage on www.costik.com (backup link archived on September 23, 2001)
- Greg Costikyan's blog on www.costik.com (backup link archived on January 14, 2003)
- "I Have No Words and I Must Design" (essay, full text) on www.costik.com (backup link archived on February 23, 2002)
- Pen & Paper listing for Greg Costikyan on www.pen-paper.net (backup link archived on May 23, 2003)
- Review of First Contract on www.infinityplus.co.uk (backup link archived on September 22, 2001)
- GameZombie.tv Video Interview day after winning Maverick Award on www.gamezombie.tv (backup link archived on September 28, 2007)
