About the Authors

Ernest W. Adams is an American game design consultant and teacher residing in England. In addition to his consulting work, he gives game design workshops and is a popular speaker at conferences and on college campuses. Mr. Adams has worked in the interactive entertainment industry since 1989 and founded the International Game Developers’ Association in 1994. He was most recently employed as a lead designer at Bullfrog Productions, and for several years before that, he was the audio/video producer on the Madden NFL line of football games at Electronic Arts. In his early career, he was a software engineer, and he has developed online, computer, and console games for machines from the IBM 360 mainframe to the present day. Mr. Adams ...

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