Bio: Ernest Adams is a game design consultant, writer, and teacher, working with the International Hobo design group. He has been in the game industry for 17 years, and was most recently employed as a lead designer at Bullfrog Productions on the Dungeon Keeper series. For several years before that, he was the audio/video producer on the Madden NFL Football product line at Electronic Arts. Mr. Adams is the joint author of two books on game design and one on getting a job in the industry. He also writes the popular Designer's Notebook columns for the Gamasutra developers' webzine. His website is at http://www.designersnotebook.com.