We met Geoff Zatkin when we were invited to speak at Digipen a while back. Being a
person who plays a lot of videogames I'd created this image of a
wizened "game designer" that was part shaman and part puppeteer, and
to actually come into contact with one was intimidating. He's a nice
enough guy, but when people asked us questions on the panel we would
just spit up something offensive and he would respond with a series of
extremely relevant statistics. To think that his art is committed
largely in the tables of Excel, submerged in numbers and their
relationships to one another is something that really humanized the
process for me.