Richard Bartle: Spellbinder
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Description: Game where players take the role of wizards battling it out in an arena. The game's creator, discusses the history and success of the game.
Around 1977, I designed a pencil-and-paper game which I called (after some deliberation, as all the best names were taken) . Its premise was that two (or more) wizards were placed together in an arena, where they battled it out using spells made by stringing together series of (originally 5) basic gestures. I had been thinking for some time about the similarity between generating spells and programming computers, and this is what I finally designed in response. It bears a superficial resemblance to certain aspects of the duelling system from the
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| Date | Last updated: 02-Jul-2013 Expiry date: 06-Sep-2014 |