Chris Crawford has designed and built 14 computer games. He ran games research at Atari in 1983. He wrote the first book on computer game design. He wrote and published the first periodical on game design. He founded the Game Developers Conference and ran it for the its first years. He has written five published books, many articles and papers for periodicals, and lectured all over the world on the problems of game design. He has built a technology for interactive storytelling.