Ben Sawyer is the co-founder of Digitalmill (www.dmill.com), a technology project consulting firm in Portland, ME. Sawyer has worked in and covered game development for over eight years. He is the author of the best-selling Creating Stores on the Web and Game Developers Marketplace. His company has authored several analyst reports on the gaming industry and it managed the development of The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's university simulation game: Virtual U which was an Independent Games Festival finalist in 2000.

Sawyer has been a former contributing editor to Game Developer Magazine, and has written for it and its online sister publication Gamasutra.com. Recently Sawyer helped found the Serious Games Initiative (www.seriousgames.org) with U.S. Government's Woodrow Wilson Center think-tank to foster the development of public policy management games. One of Sawyer's previous books, The Game Developers Sourcebook (Coriolis, 1996) was given a Game Developer Magazine choice award in 1998. He is also the author of Monster Gaming also published by Paraglyph.