Mike Pondsmith

American roleplaying board and video game designer. He is best known for his work for the publisher R. Talsorian Games where he developed a majority of the companys roleplaying game lines since the companys founding in 1982. Pondsmith is credited as an author of several RPG lines including Mekton 1984 Cyberpunk 1988 and Castle Falkenstein 1994. He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the Dungeons Dragons roleplaying game worked in various capacities on video games and authored or cocreated several board games. Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. Source: Wikipedia