Deborah Todd

Biography

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Deborah Todd is a veteran games designer, writer, producer, and director, and has worked with some of the industry’s top publishers and Hollywood studios. Her projects have garnered the ABA Book Sellers Choice New Media Award, ComputEd Best Interactive Story Award, Child Magazine’s Best Software of the Year Award, and Parenting Magazine’s Software Magic Award. Her algebra game won the U.S. News and World Report’s Top 12 Titles of the Year award, and a FPS CAD game shipped over a million copies.

Ms. Todd has lectured at the California State University—Hayward Master's Program, San Francisco State University, Santa Clara University, the master's game design program at En’jmin in France, and as part-time faculty for Cogswell Polytechnical College, teaching game design. She is a member of the WGA, PGA, and IGDA, is listed in the premier edition of Who’s Who in Media and Communications, and is on the board of a Stanford-based nonprofit dedicated to delivering education to massively underserved markets worldwide.

She is the author of Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light. Jon Landau proclaims, “throughout her career, Deb’s constantly innovated new ways to deliver entertainment through gameplay… And from the start, she’s spoken and written about the right ways to marry technology and entertainment to create great games”. Game Design was named one of the five most important industry books of 2007 by Game Developer magazine. Her next book, The World According to Video Games, looks at the positive influence of videogames on society.

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