I posted this in another forum for discussion, but I thought I'd post the question to the writers too. After seeing "The Greater Good", I noticed that the terrorists were playing Half-Life. The writing in this scene is actually extremely accurate, when one of them tells the other to "use the crowbar", and he responds "that only works on the zombies, not the big bugs". This leads me to believe that one of the writers is a video gamer.

I've also noticed that Lost seems to parallel the Silent Hill game series quite a bit. Children seem to be an important and mysterious part of the story in both. There's a light/dark theme in both (the stones in Lost, the normal and nightmare versions of the town in Silent Hill), the strange hallucinations in both, people being forced to deal with their haunted pasts due to the nature of a place where they're trapped in both, the town and the island both drawing people in through unexplained circumstances, and so on. So I'm wondering if Lost drew any inspiration from the Silent Hill series.

Whether I'm way off on the Silent Hill references or not, I definitely noticed the Half-Life thing. So at least one of the writers is a gamer who knows their stuff. Who is it?