Andrew Clifford Greenberg (born 1957) co-created '' Wizardry'' with

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, which was one of the first

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s for a

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. He was also involved with the production of the game '' Q-Bert'' and several of the later ''Wizardry'' games in the 1980s. He is a graduate of

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, where he did his first work on role-playing video games. He also is a proficient tuba player. With Rick Dutton, Walter Freitag, and Michael Massimilla he created Star Saga One: Beyond the Boundary & Star Saga: Two - The Clathran Menace, in 1988 and 1989 respectively. Both were released by Masterplay Publishing. The name of the evil wizard in the first ''Wizardry'' game is Werdna, ''Andrew'' spelled backwards. After working as a patent attorney with

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, a law firm in

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, Andrew moved to

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where he serves as an executive and general counsel for a renewable energy company. Greenberg is a past Chairman of the

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Committee for the

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, and has received the Institute's National Citation of Honor.

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