# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mike-pondsmith
# Generated: 2026-08-13T05:24:13.800Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mike-pondsmith"
name: "Mike Pondsmith"
slug: "mike-pondsmith"
description: "Michael Alyn Pondsmith is an American roleplaying, board, and video game designer. He founded the publisher R. Talsorian Games in 1982, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines. Pondsmith is the author of several RPG lines, including Mekton (1984), Cyberpunk (1988) and Castle Falkenstein (1994). He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games. Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology."
tagline: "American game designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mike_Pondsmith%2C_Gamelab_2017_(35483365351)_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             6.132879045996591
  historical:           12.777044
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm1574819"
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    title: "Mike Pondsmith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump