Tom Smith

Hi! I'm Tom Smith, game designer, professor, and author.

I've been making games professionally since the mid-90s in all sorts of formats. I wrote the first American rulebook for Settlers of Catan. I did design on licensed games like Lilo & Stitch and Conan. I built a lot of the levels for Where's My Water? Currently, I'm making assessment games used for hiring purposes at Roblox, and helping with educational games there.

In addition, I've been teaching game design at Moorpark College since 2016.

And finally, I wrote a book! Anatomy of Game Design uses games you might know as a framework to talk about the fundamentals of game design.