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Book Reviews and Compare Prices for Costikyan Greg Home Browse Books Bookstore List Top Selling Books ... Rate Book Stores Search: Title/Author/Keywords/ISBN Authors A-Z Costikyan Greg Book Review and Price Comparison Pages: Top Selling Books for Costikyan Greg First Contract AUTHOR: Greg Costikyan ISBN: 0312873964 Publish Date: June 2000 Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book First Contract AUTHOR: Greg Costikyan ISBN: 0812545494 Publish Date: June 2001 Format: Mass Market Paperback Compare prices for this book Another Day, Another Dungeon AUTHOR: Greg Costikyan ISBN: 0812501403 Publish Date: September 1990 Format: Mass Market Paperback Compare prices for this book By the Sword AUTHOR: Greg Costikyan ISBN: 0312854897 Publish Date: May 1993 Format: Hardcover Compare prices for this book By the Sword AUTHOR: Greg Costikyan ISBN: 0812522680 Publish Date: April 1994 Format: Mass Market Paperback Compare prices for this book Toon: The Cartoon Roleplaying Game AUTHOR: Designed by Greg Costikyan, Kyle Miller (Illustrator)

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By the Sword Costikyan Greg Book Review AUTHOR: Greg Costikyan ISBN: 0312854897 Compare price for this book Authors A-Z Costikyan Greg By the Sword - Book Review, by Greg Costikyan From The Critics BookList - Roland Green This brisk and readable fantasy had its origins as an online Prodigy network serial. (Costikyan is a potent figure in the world of fantasy role-playing games, computerized and in other media.) The story straightforwardly uses almost equally straightforward fantasy elements: a young barbarian, Mongoose, who is also the son of a god and his animal companion, Brother (a real mongoose), are launched on a peril-fraught quest requiring both brains and brawn. The writing is entirely satisfactory for the purposes of the story, and its light touch never slips into silliness. The tale's likely to find a large readership among the game-oriented, a respectable one among regular fantasy fans. Compare prices for this book Authors A-Z Costikyan Greg

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Greg Costikyan Bio: Game designer. Other Costikyan stuff on net Greg Costikyan's Parlor of Pop Culture Pomposity Bb: Another Day, Another Dungeon 1990, Tor 1991, Science Fiction Book Club One Quest, Hold the Dragons 1995, Tor 1995, Science Fiction Book Club By the Sword 1991, Prodigy Services, Inc. 1993, Tor Books 1993, Science Fiction Book Club "After the War" June 1991, Amazing Stories "Bright Light, Big City" February 1991, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine "Can a White Boy Sing the Blues?" Summer 1993, Aboriginal Science Fiction "Demons Aren't a Girl's Best Friend" Dec, 1993 Betcha Can't Read Just One Martin H. Greenberg "A Doe, In Charcoal" July 1992 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine "Doin' What Comes Naturally" Jan-Feb 94, Galaxy "A Fairy Tale" Sept. 1989, Amazing Stories "Greep Bouillabaisse" Summer 1990, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine "The Hart" April 1993, Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine "High On Life" Nov 1992, Analog "Syrup of Greep" Galaxy "They Want Our Women!"

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Greg Costikyan I consult on game industry business issues and game design; I'm a game designer ; and I write science fiction and fantasy as well as many articles about games and the game industry. I'm Chief Creative Officer of Unplugged, Inc. , a wireless game and service provider; consult to and am on the Board of Advisors of the Themis Group , am a member of the Editorial Board of Gamestudies , and coordinate the New York chapter of the International Game Developers Association News (1/12/03) Blog I've started a blog about games, game design, and digital culture; you can find it here Talk Like a Gamer I just added this piece, originally published in Verbatim: The Language Quarterly. It's about the colorful vocabulary of gamers and game developers. You can read it here. What's the Time in Tampere? In addition to my work for Unplugged and Themis , I've now game section editor of the developer support website run by a major mobile phone manufacturer. Essentially, I'm writing and editing documents to help developers produce games for mobile phonesdocuments primarily related to J2ME and Symbian OS, but also ones about business and design issues. My consulting agreement prohibits me from mentioning the name of the company in a public place (like, say, this site), but curiously, does not apparently prevent me from linking to the site PegSolo As a sort of finger exercise, done to familiarize myself with

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home SF book reviews Greg Costikyan Novels/collections Search Web for Greg Costikyan Google search Alta Vista search Novels/Collections First Contract Novels/Collections : reviews Greg Costikyan. First Contract Review: Johnson Mukerjii is the president of a successful Silicon Valley enterprise, about to bet the company on a new holographic projector. Then the aliens come, and their super advanced technology knocks the bottom out of Earth's entire high-tech industry. Abruptly bankrupt and on the street, Mukerjii fights back by selling the aliens what they want tat! But there are some problems along the way, not least raising the $25 million, plus travel, during Earth's massive global economic depression, for a small booth at the local Trade Fair, "only" 28 light years away. A mildly amusing and fast-paced look at corporate finagling with an alien twist. There's also a moral when the aliens come, let's not be too quick to trade them our equivalent of Manhattan Island for their equivalent of a handful of glass beads. Rating: 4 mind candy reviewed 7 August 2002

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Greg Costikyan UserPreferences Game Design Wiki FrontPage RecentChanges TitleIndex WordIndex ... moin.sf.net One of the pioneers of the idea of a design language for games. His often-referenced paper, , foreshadowed the process that this site is trying to accelerate. Home page: http://www.costik.com CategoryPerson EditText of this page [current page size bytes] (last modified 2003-01-29 19:55:26) FindPage by browsing, title search , text search or an index Or try one of these actions: LikePages LocalSiteMap SpellCheck

10. Polytropos: Greg Costikyan Finds The Master greg costikyan Finds the Master. greg costikyan has picked up on what Ed Heil and I have known http://www.polytropos.org/archives/000098.html

Polytropos A blog of twists and turns. Main September 23, 2003 Greg Costikyan Finds the Master Greg Costikyan has picked up on what Ed Heil and I have known for a while – My Life With Master is very cool. Greg’s not approaching the game steeped in narrativist RPGs like Ed and I, which gives him a fresh perspective. Ed linked to it before me, but I think Greg’s taken aback by more than just the fact that MLWM is narrativist. It’s the predetermined structure of the narrative that fascinates him. He conflates the significance of the game’s narrativism and its determinism, though: In a standard RPG, player action is tightly constrained on a moment to moment basis . . . In Master, by contrast, there are no literal constraints on action, on a moment-by-moment basis; there are no systems to resolve the success or failure of actions, so that the only real constraint is gamemaster acquiescence, which is unlikely to be withheld unless you are doing someting inappropriate from the perspective of narrative coherence. On the other hand, the narrative is highly constrained; inevitably, Master will die, and each character will achieve or suffer one of five possible outcomes. Everything but the last sentence is true of any game with a narrative, low-mechanics focus, and will be intimately familiar to fans of games like

11. Salon Technology | Games Don't Kill People -- Do They? let's remember There's both bad and good in blowing up pixels. - - - - - - - - - - - By greg costikyan. June 21, 1999 http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/06/21/game_violence

Click Here Search Archives Contact Us Table Talk ... Columnists Click Here View From the Top Full list of profiles Also Today For a full list Search Salon Advanced Search Help Recently in Salon Technology Silicon Follies Silicon Follies Chapter 28: Fire off the press releases! Sales force, start your engines! By Thomas Scoville 21st Challenge 21st Challenge No. 23 Half-baked long distance learning schemes. By Charlie Varon and Jim Rosenau Books Web wars By Andrew Leonard The Silicon Valley myth with a life of its own In "Pirates," HP, Xerox and other big companies play the fools of the PC revolution, and only the lone visionary "gets it." By Michael Mattis Review The great Silicon Valley soap opera By Janelle Brown Complete archives for Technology Technology by e-mail Sign up here to receive our weekly e-mail newsletter listing recent and upcoming articles and events in Technology. Unsubscribe and good in blowing up pixels. By Greg Costikyan June 21, 1999 A bout 10 years ago, I had drinks with Frank Chadwick, then president of a game publisher called Game Designers Workshop. At the time, the Game Manufacturers Association was trying to reposition hobby games as "adventure games" which we both thought risible.

12. As I Please: Speaking Of Greg Costikyan... Speaking of greg costikyan greg posted to his weblog last weekend Dot Boom, a satirical card game of the Dot Com era http://www.spicejar.org/asiplease/archives/000049.html

As I Please Alan Bostick explains the which of the what-he-did. Main May 14, 2003 Speaking of Greg Costikyan... Greg posted to his weblog last weekend Dot Boom, a satirical card game of the Dot Com era . He designed the game last year, tried unsuccessfully to sell it, and has just now put it up for our amusement. Players take the role of venture capitalists who fund dubious dotcom enterprises in hopes of taking them public and cashing out before the bubble bursts. Whoever makes the most from IPOs before the inevitable crash is the winner. Even if you have no intention of playing the thing, I recommend you look at the game cards that go with it. They are a hoot and a half. Posted by abostick at May 14, 2003 09:58 AM Comments Gawd, that looks brilliant. I want to make a set and play at once! Posted by: Scott at May 16, 2003 12:28 PM Post a comment Name: Email Address: URL: Remember personal info? Yes No Comments:

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Joho the Blog An Entry from the Archives [DG] Micah Jackson: SelfObjects Back to Blog ... [DG] Edward Castronova: Virtual Worlds May 31, 2003 [DG] Greg Costikyan: Games in Crisis Greg is talking about the severe pressure the game industry is under. Development budgets have increased in a Moore-like way but revenues haven't: A game ten years ago cost about $200,000 to produce; now it costs $2M+. App size has gone up two orders of magnitude in just a few years. Most of the costs are for graphic design. I.e., it used to take a one person-day to build. A Doom III level takes 2+ weeks. But the industry feels it has to keep moving up. The audience has no "Indie game" aesthetic. And games are sold to distributors on the basis of brief demos that highlight the graphics. Actual gameplay is too hard to judge to play much of a role in the decisions. And, historically, supporting advanced hardware has increased sales, but (says Greg) that's because the hardware has sucked. Games lose money. And it will get worse. Consequence: The field is driven by mega-hits. Over 89% of sales are generated by thhe top ten games. Publishers will continue to consolidate. And games will be more like other games; the most lucrative approach is to publish a sports game that has minor annual updates. And basing a game on a commercial character (or doing a sequel) reduces the risk. It has to fall into an existing category, with innovation only on the margins. There is interest in independent game development because people are desperate for a hit. Also, mobile games are showing signs of life becausegames mobile platforms require much less develop time.

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17. Greg Costikyan First Contract Reviewed By Rick Kleffel First Contract. greg costikyan. Tor / Tom Doherty Associates scenario is played out to nearperfection in greg costikyan's pre-crash novel 'First Contract'. The author, a noted http://www.trashotron.com/agony/reviews/costikyan-first_contract.htm

Agony Column Home Agony Column Review Archive First Contract Greg Costikyan Tor / Tom Doherty Associates US Hardcover First ISBN 0-312-87396-4 Publication Date: 07-2000 287 Pages; $23.95 Date Reviewed: 07-24-2002 REFERENCES COLUMNS Science Fiction Summer 2000. The girls were good looking and the stock market was high. High tech was still high profit. We were all going to retire early, live the good life. And then the aliens came, and ruined it all. As 'First Contract' begins, life is sweet for Johnson Mukerjii. He's a go-getter jet setter of the Internet startup generation, and he just about has a hot piece of technology that could make him a bundle. He has all the good things that go with the job a wonderful house, a hot wife and a couple of fast cars. But when those pesky aliens arrive, they bring more than gifts and greetings. They bring ultra-cheap technology. Suddenly, we're the Aztecs and the aliens are the Spaniards. We don't have a hope of competing with them. Mukerjii finds his life going down the toilet at an alarming rate. Costikyan's scenario isn't all doom and gloom, however. Capitalism is a two-edged sword that can be turned against the aliens just as well as it can be used by them. Mukerjii hasn't forgotten how to cut fiscal throats even though he himself has been under the knife. There's more than a bit of a Douglas Adams vibe at work in this novel, and the satire is relieved by some sunnier thoughts. My only regret is that the novel, even in the title, suggests that there would be a follow up. It hasn't come out as yet, which probably means that Costikyan is doing fine in the game business. But if he ever needs a fallback plan, that novelist gig worked out well in 'First Contract'.

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19. MAGIC OF THE PLAINS : BY THE SWORD - Costikyan, Greg Author Name costikyan, greg. Title MAGIC OF THE PLAINS BY THE SWORD http://www.areaderscorner.com/si/4320.html

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