Frank Lantz is the director of the NYU Game Center and chair of the department of game design at the Tisch School of the Arts. He has been a professional game designer for over 20 years, creating a number of award-winning games at his studio Area/Code, including the popular iPhone game Drop7. Frank’s pioneering work on large-scale real-world and location-based games has been widely influential and his writings on games, aesthetics and culture have appeared in a variety of publications. His most recent game is the philosophical clicker game Universal Paperclips.