Deborah Todd is an award-winning writer, designer, producer, and director. She began her career writing for MGM’s Saturday morning Pink Panther cartoons, then quickly segued into video games, working with Disney, Fox, Discovery, Humongous, Houghton-Mifflin, Warner Bros, and Nickelodeon, among others. Her projects have ranged from FPSs to MMOGs, and have garnered such awards as the ABA Book Sellers Choice New Media, ComputEd Best Interactive Story, Child Magazine’s Best Software of the Year, Parenting Magazine’s Software Magic, and U.S. News and World Report’s Top 12 Titles of the Year. Deborah is the author of Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light, named one of the “Top 5 Industry Books of the Year” by Game Developer magazine.