Mike Pondsmith, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mike Pondsmith

game designer

Date of Birth: 14-Apr-1954

Place of Birth: United States of America, United States

Profession: teacher, graphic designer, role-playing game designer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Michael Alyn Pondsmith is an 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 company's role-playing game lines since the company's 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 role-playing game, worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games.
Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.