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Notes on Guest Expert Contributors
Naomi Alderman is the author of three novels: Disobedience, The Lessons , and
Doctor Who: Borrowed Time . She has won the Orange Award for New Writers
and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year prize. She’s also a games writer,
was lead writer on puzzle alternate reality game Perplex City and has recently
completed a language teaching game for the BBC. She writes regularly on
games for the Guardian .
Richard A. Bartle is Professor of Computer Game Design at the University of
Essex. He is best known for having co-written in 1978 the first virtual world,
MUD , and for his 1996 Player Types model which has seen widespread adoption
by the MMO industry. His 2003 book Designing Virtual Worlds is the
standard text on the subject, and he is an influential writer on all aspects of
online design and development. In 2010, he was the first recipient of the prestigious
Game Developers Online Choice Award of Online Game Legend.
Jacob Habgood is now a Senior Lecturer in Game Development at Sheffield
Hallam University. His games industry career spanned 14 years and includes a
dozen published titles for all the major console gaming platforms. He studied his
PhD in game-based learning at the University of Nottingham and was awarded
his doctorate in 2007. His research interests focus on harnessing the motivational
power of games for learning, as well as the affective motivational components
of digital games themselves. He is the author of a popular series of books
on hobbyist game development, beginning with The Game Maker’s Apprentice .
Adrian Hon is co-founder and CEO at Six to Start, specializing in creating new
forms of storytelling through ARGs, transmedia, or mobile and web-based
games. Clients have included Disney, the BBC, Channel 4, and Penguin, and
Six to Start has won multiple awards including Best of Show at SXSW. He also
writes about technology for the Daily Telegraph , is writing a Kickstarter-funded
book and blog called A History of the Future in 100 Objects , co-organizes the
Hive Mind Challenge, and is the founder of Transmedia London. He studied
Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specializing in experimental psychology and
neuroscience.
Eric Klopfer is Associate Professor and the Director of the MIT Scheller
Teacher Education Program ( http://education.mit.edu ) and the Director of The