Randy Nichols Randy Nichols is an Assistant Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington Tacoma. His research has focused on examining how video games are produced and what game production can teach us. He is the co-author of the 2016 book Inside the Video Game Industry: Game Developers Talk about the Business of Play, the author of the 2014 book The Video Game Business, as well as a number of book chapters and articles examining the impact and implications of game production.