About me and this blog
My name is Brian Train. I am a freelance writer and game designer.
I have published games and/or historical articles with BTR Games, Compass Games, Decision Games, Fiery Dragon Productions, Flying Pig Games, GMT Games, Hollandspiele, Lock n’ Load, Microgame Design Group, Modern Combat Studies Group, Nestorgames, One Small Step Games, Schutze Games, Simulations Workshop, Strategy Gaming Society, Steambubble Graphics, Tiny Battle Publishing and XTR Corp.
My special interests in game design are irregular warfare, “pol-mil” games, and asymmetric games generally.
This blog is dedicated to writing about my game designs, and items on “serious” gaming generally that catch my interest.
If you’d like to hear from me, I am at [email protected] .
Preface to a self-published book from 1885, on a card game the author had invented (“Symmetry”). I suppose and hope we all feel this way sometimes.
Someone suggested a while back I should make up a general “ludological CV”, so here it is FWIW.
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Excellent site. Congratulations!
Thank you!
Brian, I have a question regarding one of your titles what is the best way to connect with you?
Email, as above!
Truly impressive site. I had no conception of the scope of your attainments. You do tend to take on the assignments nobody else would dare…
Great site Brian. Interestingly the Preface address is located v close to an old postal Diplomacy zine (Snorwood Gazette) publisher when I first stumbled across the “serious” games market back in the late 70’s. Couldn’t find Napier Villas tho’
Keith
Waldegrave Road, near the Crystal Palace (SE19) appears to be one of the shorter roads in London, no more than 300 m long.
I’m not sure where “Napier Villas” might have been, but when Mr. Ram lived there one of the first buildings in the world to be made of mass-concrete had recently been built near him – a church that is now a block of flats:
https://www.norwoodsociety.co.uk/articles/the-concrete-church