Acknowledgments
Thanks to Steve Ogden for coming back to Atomic Sam and breathing life into the
little kid once again.
Thanks to Noah Falstein, James Hague, Damion Schubert, Ian Parberry, and Mar-
garet Rogers for looking over my work and providing me with invaluable feedback and
support, which have improved this book tremendously.
Thanks also to Tom Hall, Katherine Isbister, Darius Kazemi, and Michael Eilers for
their comments on this book and how it might be made better the second time around.
Thanks to Doug Church, Chris Crawford, Ed Logg, Jordan Mechner, Sid Meier,
Steve Meretzky, and Will Wright for graciously subjecting themselves to my nearly
endless questioning.
Thanks to Wes Beckwith, Beth Kohler, Martha McCuller, Alan McCuller, Denise
McEvoy, Tim McEvoy, and everyone at Wordware for making this book once again
become a reality.
For their help with this book, thanks to Jim Hill, Steve Crane, Ken Fedesna, George
Gomez, Rob Gustafson, Reilly Brennan, Robin Hunicke, Matt Bertz, Scott Miller, Jenny
Huldschiner, Tyrone Miller, Carol Quito, Rannie Yoo, Loretta Stevens, Jason Wonacott,
Doug Zartman, Benson Russell, John Scott Lewinski, Ari Feldman, Laura J.
Mixon-Gould, Jeff Buccelatto, Jayson Hill, Laura Pokrifka, Josh Moore, Lisa Sokulski,
Dan Harnett, Steffan Levine, Susan Wooley, Chris Brandkamp, Kelley Gilmore,
Lindsay Riehl, Patrick Buechner, Greg Rizzer, Lori Mezoff, Jenna Mitchell, Ericka
Shawcross, Maryanne Lataif, Bryce Baer, Bob Bates, James Conner, Lisa Tensfeldt,
Paula Cook, Donald Knapp, and Diana Fuentes.
Thanks to Jamil Moledina, Jennifer Olsen, Alex Dunne, & everyone atGame Devel-
oper/Gamasutra, Gordon Cameron, Tuncer Deniz, Bart Farkas, Andy Eddy, Brian
Moriarty, Scott McCloud, Ed Magnin, Bernd Kreimeier, Andrew Rollings, George
Broussard, Jason Della Rocca, Dave Astle, Tom Russo, Kevin Toyama, Greg Orlando,
George Jones, Owain Bennallack, Matthew Percival, Dishad Husain, Julie Perkins,
Angie Cox & everyone at Gamer.tv, Jon Goodwin, Christopher Erhardt, Jonathan Kay,
Neil Morton, Stephen Granade, Jeff Vogel, Laura Heon, Kaarin Lemstrom-Sheedy &
MassMOCA, Troy Dunniway, Clay Heaton, Rich Carlson, Iikka Keranen, Curt Feldman
& everyone at E3, Alan Patmore, Nick Radovich & everyone at Surreal, David Zucker
& everyone at Midway, Mark Bullock, the Leaping Lizard crew, Brian Rice, Lee
Waggoner, Pat Alphonso, Peter Tamte, Nate Birkholtz, Al Schilling, Cindy Swanson &
everyone at MacSoft, Alex Seropian, Jason Jones, Jim McNally, Jeff O’Connor, Ira
Harmon, Gordon Marsh, Glenn Fabry, Derek Riggs, and Chuck Schuldiner.
Special thanks to Richard & Regina Rouse, Dave Rouse, Linda Rouse, Grayson
Starner, Margaret Rogers & the Rogers clan, June Oshiro & Matt Bockol, Ben Young,
Alain, Annalisa, & Alexandria Roy, Katie & Eric Pidkameny, Gail Jabbour, Amy & Jason
Schigelone, Rafael & Belinda Brown, Eloise Pasachoff, Kristin Kane, and Christian &
Logan Bell.
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