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Learn more. I live, write, and teach in Sarasota, Florida, my home and native town. I am a professor of Creative Writing at the Ringling College of Art and Design, where I teach classes on writing for video games, writing for tabletop games, writing comics, the history of game art, and other fun stuff. Born in 1972, I grew up in Florida before ...
View Rick Dakan’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members. Professor of Creative Writing, Chair of AI Task Force at Ringling College of Art and Design · I write books ...
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Jan 24, 2006 · 9 Min Read. Rick Dakan is the author of 2005's 'Geek Mafia,' the story of a rogue game designer who enlists the help of an underground group of con-men to enact revenge on the developer that fired him, and make a small profit on the process. Dakan is also the creator of Cryptic's City of Heroes massively-multiplayer on-line superhero brawler.
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Nov 3, 2004 · Rick: I do, although as a friend of mine pointed out, the way it reads, it sounds like Mike fired me and then everything got better all of a sudden. Actually, they’d had it that I resigned, but ...
Jan 24, 2006 · In one of today's main Gamasutra features, City of Heroes creator and 'Geek Mafia' author Rick Dakan discusses his strange transition from lead game designer, to design contractor, to comic book writer, and to novel author.
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Feb 3, 2022 · Rick Dakan and Ryan G. Van Cleave, PhD are professors at the prestigious Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where they teach such courses as Writing Science Fiction, Writing for Video Games, and Writing for Shared Worlds. Both of them have ended a D&D campaign with a single well-placed fireball.
Rick Dakan has 29 books on Goodreads with 4387 ratings. Rick Dakan’s most popular book is Geek Mafia.
