Joel is a composer and illustrator who has worked in the comic book and videogame industries for... longer than he would care to consider. He is also a longtime tabletop gamer, having played D&D, Star Frontiers, Shadowrun, Robotech, and most of the White Wolf games. He's even worked on making game systems and designs from scratch. One might say he has spent a large portion of his life contemplating or playing games. One might indeed say that. Indeed.
Joel also occasionally writes about himself in the third person for website biographies.