Greg Costikyan
- January 9, 2024
- Writer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Greg Costikyan |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Date Of Birth | Jul 22, 1959(1959-07-22) |
| Age | 65 |
| Birthplace | New York |
| Country | United States |
| Horoscope | Cancer |
Greg Costikyan Biography
| Name | Greg Costikyan |
| Birthday | Jul 22 |
| Birth Year | 1959 |
| Place Of Birth | New York |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Parents | Edward N. Costikyan |
Greg Costikyan is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on July 22, 1959 in New York, United States. Greg Costikyan (born July 22 1959 at New York City), sometimes referred to under the pseudonym “Designer X”, is an American game creator and writer of science fiction. His work spans a wide range of games that exist, which include hex-based wargames boardgames, role-playing, computer games, card gamesonline,, and mobile games. Some of his games have received Origins Awards. He was co-founder of Manifesto Games, now out of business, along with Johnny Wilson in 2005.
Greg Costikyan is the son of politician and lawyer Edward N. and Frances (Holmgren) Costikyan. He got married Louise Disbrow (a securities analyst) on September 4 in 1986. Costikyan reside in New York City near his three children. He was an alumni of 1982 (B.S.) from Brown University. He is a frequent guest speaker at games industry events such as E3 and the Game Developers Conference and E3.
Costikyan has written four novels. The first two were parodies of genre fantasy: Another Day, Another Dungeon (1990, ISBN 0-8125-0140-3) and its sequel One Quest, Hold the Dragons (1995, ISBN 0-8125-2269-9). By the Sword (1993, ISBN 0-312-85489-7) is another irreverent fantasy about a young barbarian who is forced by circumstances to make his way in the larger world; it was originally serialized on the Prodigy online service.
His latest novel, First Contract (in French : Space O.P.A. – 2000, ISBN 0-312-87396-4), depicts (with much dry humor) the vast sociological and economic changes that happen after aliens arrive on Earth, and one entrepreneur’s efforts to survive and make a new start.
The other RPG credits comprise Acute Paranoia (1986) for Paranoia as well as Your Own Private Idaho (1987) for The Price of Freedom.
Greg Costikyan Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Writer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Greg Costikyan is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Greg Costikyan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In the 70s and the in the 1980s, Costikyan was a leading participant in Slobbovia. The novel he wrote, One Quest, Hold the Dragons includes a number of stories of crottled Greeps, an Slobbovian meme.
Greg Costikyan has been a game designer since the 1970s. Costikyan worked for SPI until the time it was shut down in 1982 by TSR in 1982. He joined West End Games in 1983. His game, Bug-Eyed Monsters, from 1983 was the first game to bring West End Games into the genres of science fiction and fantasy, and the following year , he license the rights to his Paranoia Role-Playing Game for publication to West End Games for publishing after failing to find an editor. Costikyan developed Toon (1984) in 1984 for Steve Jackson Games after developing the concept from an idea conceived by Jeff Dee; Costikyan felt that the game’s system was mostly “arbitrary” and that the idea of this game is more significant. West End Games acquired licensing to develop an game that was that was based on Star Wars, and Costikyan created Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game which was released in 1987 with the help with Doug Kaufman and others.
Costikyan and Eric Goldberg left West End Games in January 1987, forming the short-lived Goldberg Associates. When West End Games declared bankruptcy in 1998, Costikyan and Goldberg tried to recover the rights to Paranoia; although West End’s founder Scott Palter fought this, a judge gave the rights back to the creators in 2000. Costikyan designed the role-playing game Violence (1999) under the pseudonym “Designer X” for Hogshead Publishing, and made the game widely available under a Creative Commons license. Costikyan and Goldberg licensed Paranoia to Mongoose Publishing, which began producing new books for the game in 2004.
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In 2013, Costikyan’s non-fiction look at the role of uncertainty in game development Uncertainty in Games was published by MIT Press. A paperback edition was subsequently published in 2015. ISBN 9780262527538.
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