Today we get to look at Geoff "Heretic" Tuffli.  He's the combat systems designer for Cryptic Studios' upcoming game, Champions Online!

Q: How does someone get from majoring in Aztec Cultural Linguistics to making videogames?
A: When I graduated from college I realized that major, while providing unparalleled dinner table conversation on topics such as glyphic representations of cannibalism in the context of various Mesoamerican tributary empires, was less useful when finding a job. For some reason, there are not a lot of job openings in the field I studied.

I decided I wanted to do interesting things with this new-fangled "web" everyone was talking about, write professionally in some capacity, or design games.

Since that point, I have worked professionally in the web application industry, as a technical writer, and then I managed to land a job at Sony doing quality assurance (QA). From there, the rest, as they say, is history.

He's got quite a history, as well as a unique look at this awesome game.