Matrix Game Web Pages

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by Chris Engle

The following list are of web pages that I have seen that say anything about Matrix Games. If you know of anymore, please contact me so I can add them to the list. One thing I've noticed is that the information out there derives from two sources. In England Bob Cordery and Tim Price have put the Campaign in a Day rules out (modified to fit what they've written about in Wargames Illustrated). Tom Barnes put the MG rules of just prior to Campaign in a Day on line. So the rules people know now date from 1991-92. I am glad to say there have been considerable advances since then.

Chris Engle's Web pages

HAMSTER PRESS – My company for publishing commercial Matrix Games. http://www.io.com/~hamster

MATRIX GAMER – My geocities page that tells a little more about the game. http://www.geocities.com/area51/dungeon/6987

Bob Cordery's page

INDEX WD WEBSITE– The index of Wargame Developments – the guys who published my first MG article in 1988. Includes a separate page on MG rules and a dictionary of terms including Matrix Games and Mugger games. http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~warden/index.htm

GAME CABINET: Includes an article on Narrative in Board Games by Mike Siggins in which Matrix Games (Experimental Game Group) are mentioned in the bibliography. Editor Ken Tidwell. http://www.gamecabinet.com/editorials/narrative.html

Pages inspired by Tom Barnes

WORLD DESIGN: Loren Miller uses a Matrix Game to develop game worlds. http://rider.wharton.upenn.edu/~loren/Fabulous/roolz.html

GIANTS IN THE DEEP: One of Loren's worlds. It includes the rules he uses and a noble attempt at coming up with an over arching matrix to pull the game together. http://www.geocities.com/area51/cavern/7398/

CHRIS DOHERTY'S WORLD: Chris Doherty, one of Loren's associates, has his own world with rules slightly modified from Loren's. Other players of this game include Jamie Tonkin, Shannon Mann, Alex Nicolaous and Loren Miller. http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~cpdohert/index.html

PLEASE EVERYONE! CHECK OUT THESE SIGHTS AND START TALKING TO ONE ANOTHER.

PS Also check out MagWeb (www.magweb.com). A site that puts 50 game magazines on line. In the MWAN section it includes some of my early writing. We are talking about getting the entire run of EGG on line so more people can see the early development work of the Matrix Game.


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