From lojbab@lojban.org Fri Jul 02 15:29:41 2004 Return-Path: X-Sender: lojbab@lojban.org X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (qmail 25031 invoked from network); 2 Jul 2004 22:29:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m19.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 2 Jul 2004 22:29:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lakermmtao02.cox.net) (68.230.240.37) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 2 Jul 2004 22:29:39 -0000 Received: from bob.lojban.org ([68.228.12.146]) by lakermmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.03.02 201-2131-111-104-20040324) with ESMTP id <20040702222934.OEMV923.lakermmtao02.cox.net@bob.lojban.org>; Fri, 2 Jul 2004 18:29:34 -0400 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20040702180307.0367bcd0@pop.east.cox.net> X-Sender: lojbab@pop.east.cox.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:26:28 -0400 To: franklinlj@earthlink.net,lojban@yahoogroups.com In-Reply-To: <20040702055800.GO28169@chain.digitalkingdom.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-eGroups-Remote-IP: 68.230.240.37 From: Bob LeChevalier Subject: Re: [lojban] [rt@lojban.org: [lojban.org #746] Browne the gamer] X-Yahoo-Group-Post: member; u=1120595 X-Yahoo-Profile: lojbab X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 22623 At 10:58 PM 7/1/04 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: >Transaction: Ticket created by franklinlj@earthlink.net > Queue: lojban.org > Subject: Browne the gamer > Owner: Nobody > Requestors: franklinlj@earthlink.net > Status: new > Ticket > > >I recently read the 2000 obituary of Dr. J C Browne. Do you know how I >could find out about his other game designs besides 'Careers'? To the best of my knowledge, Brown published no other games. He did assist in the design of some other games which may or may not have been published, but I only know the details of one, because I helped in the playtesting. That game was designed by someone in England in the early 1980s, though Brown did a lot of work on it, and largely made it salable. In 1982 Brown had arranged to sell this game to Avalon Hill, but after the initial contract signing, Brown apparently became upset with something they were doing and pushed the issue. Avalon Hill found a loophole, I think involving the contract not having been notarized in England, and used that to back out of the contract. So far as I know, the game was never published. That game had a vague resemblance to the later computer games Civilization and Master of Orion with resources, ship development, and technology advances, but also involved a geometric "capture space" element akin to the board game Go. If you were to contact Jenny Brown at the Loglan Institute address on this page, she might be able to tell you more, and she would likely know of any other games that were published. http://www.loglan.org/#contact lojbab -- lojbab lojbab@lojban.org Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group (Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.) Artificial language Loglan/Lojban: http://www.lojban.org