A week ago I was up in "The Land of Cheese" (aka Wisconsin) at the GenCon game show. This was my ninth year up there running Matrix Games. I've already got my event proposals ready for next year! It is an expensive show but always a fun one. I've always found that it helps hone my thinking and gives me something to work towards. This year all my events were set on a three dimensional map of down town Indianapolis. I wanted to make people aware of Indy to begin transitioning them to the new home of GenCon (come 2003). I experienced many logistical problems this year but hope to trot Indy out again for next year. Next year I plan on running six different Sherlock Holmes Murder Mysteries. I need someone else who is coming to GenCon to run four games on the Indy map. Any volunteers? As always on the drive home, my mind bubbled with game ideas. This year the energy went in the direction of academic games. I've written a draft of rules for doing psychotherapy educational games. I have a list of applications ranging from teaching anger management, addictions relapse prevention and parenting to teen parents. There are lots more educational applications that I hope to tap in the future. Teaching English composition, history, political science, and of course planning. The rules will need slight modifications to do these tasks but not big ones. This issue has articles about Mark Kinney's face to face Hwa Rang Do game, Tim Prices description of how the British army is using Matrix Games to a draft of an academic Matrix Game article I'm working on. Next month I hope to include a write up on the war lessons I've been doing in Hwa Rang Do online. Pretty soon the Hamster Press web page will be up dated. I hope that you find it easier to use and a good beginning to the MG web community I mentioned in the last Matrix Gamer. I will include a more easily read version of the basic Matrix Game rules and the miniatures battle version of the Matrix Game. Back to Table of Contents -- Matrix Gamer #17 To Matrix Gamer List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Chris Engle. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com