A while ago I wrote an article suggesting that it would be a good idea if there was a central web links pages for Matrix Games. I was hoping that some enthusiastic techie would jump on this. It didn’t happen. Typical… Now I find that you don’t need to be a techie to do web pages. COOL! I set up the “Matrix Game Nexus” in January. Right now it is very minimal. But just like this newsletter, it exists as a communications hub. But what is it for? I flip on my computer and it automatically goes to a web page. I’m going to shift my home page to be the MG Nexus. That way I’ll see what’s new each time I check my email. Other people are not as obsessed as I am by MGs so they may not check the site as often as that. They might go there to see what’s new (maybe on a weekend when surfing the web) or go there when they are looking for a game to play. Or just to read MG articles. The point is that they need only go to one place on the internet to get all their nasty little MG desires met. Checking on what’s new. Say you read everything out there that is written about MGs. You want to have an easy time doing this. One stop shopping does this. Finding a game. Right now we advertise up coming games on the Matrix Gamer egroup. This means only people who want to be inundated with MG email can find out what is coming. Outside people are thus excluded by out communications medium. Not good! The same holds for the actual play. Games run on the list can only be easily joined by list members. A turn off for many web surfers. No commitment is the by word for success. Which web/email based Matrix Games can accomplish with only a little tweaking. Finding articles. Say I want to run a web based Matrix Game, but I don’t want to reinvent the wheel. I just want to game - not write rules! The Matrix Game Nexus provides links to free rules pages and articles about how to play MGs that anyone can plug into. An example of a utility to help gamers game. At the moment this is still just a dream. But it is a dream very nearly awake. The technology is in place. The rules are done. The interest is there and growing. It only remains to do as Kevin Costner did in Field of Dreams - “Build it and they will come!” Back to Table of Contents -- Matrix Gamer #23 To Matrix Gamer List of Issues To MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 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