Dr. José P. Zagal has authored and edited numerous books and articles on topics including game ethics, game design, and role-playing games. His recent works include Seeing Red: Nintendo’s Virtual Boy (MIT Press, 2024), Fifty Years of Dungeons & Dragons (MIT Press, 2024), and The Routledge Handbook of Role-Playing Game Studies (Routledge, 2024). He was named a Distinguished Scholar by the Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) and a Fellow of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA) for his contributions to games research. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech (2008), and an M.Sc. and B.S. in Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.