15 Facts About Noah Falstein

Noah Falstein was born on June 1957 and is a game designer and producer who has been in the video game industry since 1980, winning "Game of the Year" titles for multiple games such as Battlehawks 1942 and Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

Noah Falstein has designed games for multiple platforms, including arcade video games, Commodore 64, and MS-DOS.

Noah Falstein was one of the first 10 employees at Lucasfilm Games, joining them in 1984; the third employee at DreamWorks Interactive in 1995; and one of the early employees at The 3DO Company.

Noah Falstein was the first elected chairperson of the International Game Developers Association, which he chaired from 1997 to 1998.

Noah Falstein was designing toys at an early age, like taking wind-up toy cars and adding cardboard "skins" to them to turn them into boats or spaceships.

Noah Falstein loved to draw up blueprints of imaginative science fiction vehicles and spaceships, and found himself enjoying and designing his own boardgames, then iterating on his designs to make them more and more fun.

Noah Falstein had his first exposure to computers at Rogers Elementary School in 1970, learning Fortran that was input on punch cards.

Noah Falstein graduated high school in 1975, then attending Hampshire College, where he began programming his own games.

Noah Falstein intended to put in adversaries and combat, but ran out of time before he graduated.

Noah Falstein did continue to use the name in one of his later projects though, when he designed Koronis Rift for LucasFilm Games.

Noah Falstein received a Bachelor's Degree from Hampshire College in 1980, and then one week after graduation he began work at the Milton Bradley Company's Advanced Research division.

In 1996, Noah Falstein formed The Inspiracy, a consulting firm specializing in game design and production for clients on five continents, ranging from corporate training to medical education to entertainment.

The Inspiracy allowed Noah Falstein to help with various game startups, and he was actively involved in the growing worldwide community of game developers.

Noah Falstein has been on the advisory boards of the Games for Health Conference, the Serious Games Summit and Akili Interactive Labs.

Noah Falstein has spoken at hundreds of venues around the world, from game conferences to universities to the Goddard Spaceflight Center.