Before joining the videogame industry ten years ago, Stéphane Bura spent eight years as a freelance writer of pen and paper role-playing games. He has the French equivalent of a Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence for work in Artificial Life and studying emergence of properties in complex systems. After 5 years as the creative director of 10Tacle Studios Belgium, he is now looking for a new career. More of his game design articles can be found at www.stephanebura.com.