Richard Dansky – 27th
Richard Dansky is the Central Clancy Writer for Red Storm/Ubisoft. Praised as one of the Top Twenty Video Game Writers by Gamasutra in 2009, he has written for numerous games including Splinter Cell: Conviction, Far Cry, Rainbow Six: Black Arrow, and many more. A former executive of the IGDA Game Writing SIG and a member of the advisory board of the Game Narrative Summit at GDC Online, Richard has contributed to numerous books on game writing.
Richard’s most recent novel is Firefly Rain, which was a Booksense pick and received a starred review in Publishers’ Weekly. He’s also written four tie-in novels, numerous pieces of short fiction, a small mountain of roleplaying game supplements, and a column in a Korean-language gaming magazine. At one point, he was the world’s leading authority on Denebian Slime Devils, but mercifully, that is no longer the case.
He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife and their inevitable cats.