Quote: Andrew Rolling is a guy I know for a fact has not made a commerical game, yet he has many books on the topic.
Quote from "Game Architecture and Design" (which is an AWESOME book....everyone here should have a copy)
"Andrew Rollings holds a BS (Hons) is Physics from Imperial College, London and Bristol University and has worked as a technical consultant spanning the games industry an the financial industry since 1995. With Dave (Dave Morris, co author-F69), he operates a consultancy covering all aspects of game design from concept to full-technical planning"