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[lojban] Re: [rt@lojban.org: [lojban.org #746] Browne the gamer]
At 10:58 PM 7/1/04 -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
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>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
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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
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