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I'm a passionate gamer living in North London and since my pre-teens I've been fascinated by roleplaying games. Not just the getting together with friends to roll dice and consume snacks whilst playing makebelieve, but how games are constructed. The world building. The narrative structures. The mechanics of risk and choice and consensus.
Systems are a bit of an addiction for me and my professional life revolves around programming, systems analysis and architectural design. It's been a good career that's allowed me to travel, to solve some fascinating and inscrutable problems, and support my passion for games. Having developed some deep analytical skills I now want to turn them squarely on the games I love and try to compile a handbook of game design using popular commercial game systems as examples.
The handbook is called Games With Brains , a name I coined in 1998 with the intention of starting a games company only to get sucked into two decades of consultancy and tech research.
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