Chris Crawford
Computer game designer and creator of "the Erasmatron"

We had a chat with him on Monday, August 4. You can read a transcript here.

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Chris Crawford's longtime hobby of game design became his job when he joined Atari in 1979 where he worked until he was laid off during the general collapse of Atari in 1984. As a freelance computer game designer he subsequently created the bestselling Eastern Front (1941) and Balance of Power, Patton Versus Rommel, a wargame, Trust & Betrayal, Guns & Butter (about macroeconomics), and Balance of the Planet, a game about environmental problems. Another wargame, Patton Strikes Back, was published in 1991. His current project, five years in the making, is a technology for interactive storytelling and a development environment that permits nontechnical artists to control the technology.