Stone Librande is an American
video game designer
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at the
video game publisher
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They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer ...
Riot Games
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. He was the lead designer of ''
Diablo III'' at
Blizzard Entertainment
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and creative director of ''
SimCity
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'' at
Electronic Arts
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.
Stone is a frequent speaker at the
Game Developers Conference
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where he has given several talks about game design:
* 2009
The Paper Prototypes of Spore* 2010
One Page Designs* 2011
15 Games in 15 Years* 2012
Designing Games for Game Designers* 2013
Simulating a City - One Page at a Time* 2015
game < design
References
1972 births
American video game designers
Living people
Riot Games people
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