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3/5/2007 MatrixGamer: [Press Release] Jack the Ripper: Engle Matrix Game
"Jack the Ripper: The game to play before the game" Now available at RPGNow for $5 Laminate paper version available at Hamster Press for $9.95 Players: 2-6 Duration: 1/2 hour…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer.

2/23/2007 MatrixGamer: The curse of being original - popularizing Matrix Games
Okay - I have a few minutes - time to tackle this issue. First the curse. Say you actually have something that is "New". It doesn't easily fit in any…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, moonflovver, guildofblades.

2/14/2007 MatrixGamer: Matrix Game Decision Making Process
MATRIX GAME DECISION MAKING PROCESS I have always found that solo games are useful for understanding thought processes. Thought experiments like this hark back to the first generation of psychologists…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer, Simon C, komradebob, Valamir, Aaron Blain.

2/8/2007 MatrixGamer: Engle Matrix Games used in RPG Character Development
The following bit is a gloss of how I've used Matrix Games as a support element in RPGs. In this case to aid character growth. MATRIX GAMES IN CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MatrixGamer, Simon C.

2/7/2007 MatrixGamer: Dracula Engle Matrix Game - Refereeing example
ENGLE MATRIX GAME REFEREEING: DRACULA ACTUAL PLAY Three players, Tom, Bob and Chris are gathered together to play “Dracula: The game before the game” (available on RPGNow from Hamster Press).…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer, Noon, komradebob.

2/6/2007 MatrixGamer: Example of a Engle Matrix Game interest building article.
My plan for marketing this year is to send out one new product a month to reviewers and offer the product as a PDF on RPGNow and as a paper…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Simon C, komradebob.

11/17/2006 MatrixGamer: Cartoon version Engle Matrix Game rules PDF available on RPGnow
This post serves two functions. 1. It lets people know that a free PDF version of the Engle Matrix Game rules are available on RPGnow. That is important. It's marketing.…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, daMoose_Neo, Valamir.

9/14/2006 MatrixGamer: Learning curves on new computer programs.
Recently I purchased Adobe Creativity Suite 2 (with a college discount so I'm not in hock for the next year!) I got it so I could start converting product files…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, David Artman, nikola.

6/13/2006 MatrixGamer: A question about pictures
A member asked me to post pictures of my printing equipment on a thread about self publishing. I'm not aware of that happening on this site before. Is there a…
In Site Discussion
Participants: MatrixGamer, Adam Dray, Ron Edwards, LordSmerf, Czar Fnord.

6/6/2006 MatrixGamer: In House production for the upcoming convention season.
I want to describe what I'm doing this year for production so people who do in house production or are interested in that can see one way of doing it.…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, philreed, komradebob.

5/23/2006 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Sherlock Holmes Murder Mystery
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE DEAD DUKE This is the Matrix Game scenario that I have run the most. I first ran it in 1997 and I officially…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer.

5/11/2006 MatrixGamer: Interrogation: A question about role playing them.
I am interested in hearing people's perspectives on how to run an interrogation using conflict resolution techniques. First a review of other ways I've seen interrogation done. In D+D games…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer, joepub, Ron Edwards.

4/4/2006 MatrixGamer: Manufacturing cardboard counters
I'd like to hear people's experiences with making cardboard counters. I'm move Engle Matrix Games into a folio format. The game comes in a hardback cover (color and glossy) with…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Gaerik, Czar Fnord, guildofblades, Veritas Games.

1/23/2006 MatrixGamer: Presentation - As important as system?
The Lumpley Principle says that system matters. The rules of the game inform and shape all that follows. In my constant tinkering with Engle Matrix Games I've mused on how…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, guildofblades, komradebob, Ron Edwards, ChrisC, pells, nikola, mythusmage.

1/3/2006 MatrixGamer: (Engle Matrix Game) Chaos on Campus - with the family
My sister in law and two of my nephews were over for the Holidays and in between washing dishes we played a Matrix Games. We played "Chaos on Campus" a…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, Sydney Freedberg, neelk.

11/28/2005 MatrixGamer: Buffy the Vampaire Slayer/ Engle Matrix Game hybrid
My brother was over for Thanksgiving and as we frequently do I ran a game for him and my wife. A couple of years ago we did a BtVS one…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer.

11/9/2005 MatrixGamer: Horror and players that balk
A while back I ran a Cthulhu like horror game in which the players were on a river boat which ran aground on a small island. There were two players.…
In GNS Model Discussion
Participants: MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, Eric J-D, komradebob, timfire, M. J. Young.

10/28/2005 MatrixGamer: The Great Engle Matrix Game Debate: Turn resolution and the art of contradiction
The Great Debate: Turn resolution and the art of contradiction An interesting debate has come up from the latest Play by Email Game – “Zulu.”  The game is based on…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer, komradebob, contracycle.

10/25/2005 MatrixGamer: Unspoken rules - boardgames to miniatures to role play games
A quote by Vincent got me thinking about implied rules. Over time, repetition makes a body of informal procedures, mere hit-or-miss guesses, into an unspoken and…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MatrixGamer, Sydney Freedberg, Mike Holmes.

10/5/2005 MatrixGamer: The Machine Model of Games (long)
I want to put these ideas out for the Forge community to chew on. I first published them in EGG in 1990.  It is a way of analyzing games. I…
In RPG Theory
Participants: MatrixGamer, Joshua BishopRoby, Sydney Freedberg.

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4/3/2007 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dead Duke
Hamster Press has just released “Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Dead Duke” at RPGNow. A paper version of the game is available on the Hamster Press web page. Sherlock…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer.

4/6/2007 MatrixGamer: Reality check
Am I wrong? It looks like the rate of posting is declining on the forum. Is that a problem? Do we need to do anything about it? Chris Engle Hamster…
In Site Discussion
Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards.

4/27/2007 MatrixGamer: Blast from the past: The longevity of web pages
I've just had a Matrix Gamer in England join my yahoo MG group who has been playing MGs since the late 90's. He came across the rules that were posted…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer.

4/27/2007 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Jack the Ripper PBEM
We've been playing a game of "Jack the Ripper: The game you play before the game" on the MatrixGame2 yahoo group. This group has been around in one form or…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer.

5/11/2007 MatrixGamer: Dead Man on Campus Engle Matrix Game released
If you like Call of Cthulhu you'll love this game. Dead Man on Campus is the fourth folio EMG released this year by Hamster Press. This time the games centers…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, guildofblades.

5/18/2007 MatrixGamer: Machiavelli made a game!
I'm rereading "The Prince" for a seminar I'm doing at Origins ("The Anatomy of Defeat") when I came across a section where Niccolo perfectly describes a "Tactical Exercise Without Troops".…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MatrixGamer, Noon, Froley, tj333, komradebob.

6/6/2007 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] I need some help seeing if buying arguments is good mechanic
I want some help finding the bugs in a new rules mechanic I'm playing around with. The basic rule of Matrix Games now is that each turn a player makes…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MatrixGamer.

6/13/2007 MatrixGamer: Where can I put announcements of product releases?
They are not really right for the publishing section - where is the appropriate place to put press releases? Maybe you need a place for them like the have on…
In Site Discussion
Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, GreatWolf, M. J. Young.

6/20/2007 MatrixGamer: Making board game boards
I'm playing around with making boardgame boards. I'd like to share the results of the experiments so far. First off I'm printing maps on a HP Color laser printer. This…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades.

7/18/2007 MatrixGamer: Anybody done anything with silk screen printing?
I'm getting ready to do some experiments with screen printing to get a glossy coat on covers, maps, etc. Anybody done any of this before me? If so, how did…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, David Artman, Paul Czege.

8/21/2007 MatrixGamer: Gen Con - How did it go for everyone?
Time to share your experiences and thoughts. I'm putting this in the publishing section because this would be for people who were there selling. First off I want to say…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, jasonm, JustinB.

11/28/2007 MatrixGamer: Plans for the new year
I've been gearing up for the new year for the last few weeks. At the beginning of November I decided what games I'd put out next year. I'm thinking of…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, Ron Edwards.

1/23/2009 MatrixGamer: Victory conditions in story telling games
My first impression is that this is a foolish idea - I like telling stories just for the fun of engaging the challenge but... When I think "game" and I'm…
In First Thoughts
Participants: MatrixGamer, Jason M Dockins, whiteknife.

6/2/2009 MatrixGamer: New business model - The Artist/Craftsman Game Business
I've been kicking around ideas on how to proceed with my game business. I want to make money and have tried out many product formats and have sold lots of…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards, guildofblades, preludetotheend, slingshot.

6/30/2009 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Thunder Hamsters and the Temple of Cheese
My big release for Gen Con is Thunder Hamsters - a hybrid Engle Matrix Game/Board Game. In the game hamster heroes run into the temple of cheese looking for... cheese.…
In Actual Play
Participants: MatrixGamer, Ron Edwards.

7/28/2009 MatrixGamer: "Thunder Hamsters and the Temple of Cheese" at the Hamster Press booth at Gen Co
My big release for this year's Gen Con is Thunder Hamsters. It's a hybrid boardgame/Engle Matrix Game in which hamster heroes run into the temple and steal things. When they…
In Conventions
Participants: MatrixGamer, Emily Care, hoefer.

7/28/2009 MatrixGamer: I'm really liking Adobe Illustrator!
Previously I've done my cover art layout in Photoshop but for my latest game I've been doing it in Illustrator. All I can say is wow! I've always been slow…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, Airafice.

8/24/2009 MatrixGamer: [Engle Matrix Game] Salem Creek Cthulhu Horror PBEM
We are play testing the first draft of what I hope will be a future EMG board game/story game on the MatrixGame2 yahoogroup. We'd love to have some more players.…
In Playtesting
Participants: MatrixGamer.

12/21/2009 MatrixGamer: Color Printing question - for Ryan at GOB
You said that you have printers that don't need varnish after printing. Can you tell me more about them? What sizes do they print? What is the quality? How much…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, fernando.

4/21/2010 MatrixGamer: Musing about the future: 3D Printers
I was just looking at an article on a commercial 3D printer from HP. It will retail for $17,000 (so impossible for individuals now) but the cost will come down.…
In Publishing
Participants: MatrixGamer, guildofblades, The Magus.

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