What role-playing game centers on the conventions of mecha anime and science fiction and was authored by Mike Pondsmith?
Mekton
Mike Pondsmith
Michael Alyn Pondsmith (born April 14, 1954 ), typically credited as Mike Pondsmith, is an American roleplaying, board, and video game designer.
 He is best known for his work for the publisher R. Talsorian Games, where he developed a majority of the company's role-playing game lines since the company's founding in 1982.
 Pondsmith is credited as an author of several RPG lines, including "Mekton" (1984), "Cyberpunk" (1988) and "Castle Falkenstein" (1994).
 He also contributed to the Forgotten Realms and Oriental Adventures lines of the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game, worked in various capacities on video games, and authored or co-created several board games.
 Pondsmith also worked as an instructor at the DigiPen Institute of Technology.
Mekton
Mekton is a role-playing game which centers on the conventions of mecha anime and science fiction (although it can easily enough be adapted to other genres like police drama or high fantasy).
 It has seen several editions since its introduction in 1984, the most recent, "Mekton Zeta" (メクトン Z; a reference to the seminal mecha anime series "Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam") being first published in 1994.
Tech Romancer
Tech Romancer (Japanese: 超鋼戦紀キカイオー , Hepburn: Chōkō Senki Kikaiōh , "Chronicle of Super Steel Warrior Kikaioh") is a 1998 3D fighting arcade game by Capcom that draws heavily from the various subgenres of mecha anime.
 It has been ported to the Dreamcast console.
 The player controls a giant robot which is used to fight another robot in one-on-one combat.
 Studio Nue (the animation studio responsible for the mechanical designs for the mecha anime series "The Super Dimension Fortress Macross") designed the robots in this game. Metal Armor Dragonar
Metal Armor Dragonar (機甲戦記ドラグナー , Kikō Senki Doragunā ) is a 48-episode mecha anime series, created by Sunrise and aired from 1987 to 1988.
 Devised shortly after the release of "Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ", Dragonar was intended to be both a "starter" series to get new fans into mecha anime, and a potential successor to the Gundam franchise.
 In fact, its concept is to be the renewal of the first Gundam.
 Though the series enjoyed good ratings and earned a loyal fan following, it failed to surpass Gundam and ended up as a single series, probably due to its light, ZZ Gundam-like take on the real robot mecha genre.
 Game developer Banpresto had Dragonar appear in two of its popular franchises, "Super Robot Wars" and "Another Century's Episode"; fans responded positively, and Sunrise acknowledged them in 2005 by releasing a memorial DVD collection of the series, a remastered version of the previous two-part LD boxset releases years before. Xenosaga: The Animation
Xenosaga: The Animation (Japanese: ゼノサーガ THE ANIMATION , Hepburn: Zenosāga: Za Animēshon ) is a science fiction mecha anime produced by Toei Animation.
 The 12-episode series ran from January to March 2005 on TV Asahi, while it was licensed for release on DVD overseas first by A.D. Vision and later by Funimation Entertainment.
 The anime is based on the narrative of "Xenosaga Episode I", a role-playing game for the PlayStation 2 developed by Monolith Soft and published by Namco.
 Set 5000 years in the future, it tells of the adventures of scientist Shion Uzuki and the battle android KOS-MOS as they fight the threat of the alien Gnosis. Super Robot Wars V
Super Robot Wars V (Japanese: スーパーロボット大戦V , Hepburn: Sūpā Robotto Taisen V ) is a tactical role-playing game developed by B.B. Studio and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
 Released as part of "Super Robot Wars"' 25th anniversary, it is the eighth standalone entry to the series since "Super Robot Wars NEO", with the game's continued focus on the massive crossover between different mecha anime series released in Japan.
 It is released on both Japanese and Asian Territories on February 23, 2017. Armored Trooper Votoms
Armored Trooper VOTOMS (装甲騎兵ボトムズ , Sōkō Kihei Botomuzu ) is a military science fiction mecha anime series, having undergone several incarnations.
 The original 1983 television series was created by Ryosuke Takahashi and Sunrise, featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara.
 Following directly in the footsteps of Takahashi's previous series, "Fang of the Sun Dougram", "VOTOMS" continued the trend towards hard science in the mecha anime subgenre.
 The series was supplemented by numerous original video animation releases, and also inspired a number of spin-off works whose media ranges from serialized light novels to video games. Super Robot Wars
Super Robot Wars (スーパーロボット大戦 , Sūpā Robotto Taisen ) is a series of tactical role-playing video games produced by Banpresto, which is now a Japanese division of Bandai Namco Entertainment.
 Starting out as a spinoff of the Compati Hero Series, the main feature of the franchise is having a story that crosses over several popular mecha anime, manga and video games, allowing characters and mecha from different titles to team up or battle one another.
 The first game in the franchise was released for the Nintendo Game Boy on April 20, 1991.
 Later spawning numerous games that were released on various consoles and handhelds.
 Due to the nature of crossover games and licensing involved, only three games have been released outside Japan, these games only feature Banpresto's own original characters and mecha.
 The franchise celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2016. Castle Falkenstein (role-playing game)
Castle Falkenstein (abbreviated CF) is a steampunk-themed fantasy role-playing game (RPG) designed by Mike Pondsmith and originally published by R. Talsorian Games.
 The game is named for a legendary unbuilt castle in the Bavarian Alps.
 Players play the roles of gallant adventurers, facing the intrigue and derring-do of Victorian adventures such as "The Prisoner of Zenda". Cyberpunk 2020
Cyberpunk, mainly known by its second edition title Cyberpunk 2020, is a cyberpunk role-playing game written by Mike Pondsmith and published by R. Talsorian Games in 1988.
 Because of the release in 1990 of the second edition, set in a fictional 2020, the first edition is often now referred to as "Cyberpunk 2013", following the fictional year, 2013, in which the game was set when it was first released in 1988.
 The third edition, published by R. Talsorian Games in 2005, is referred to as "Cyberpunk V3.0" and is set further along the same fictional timeline as the former editions, during the 2030s.