Ron Hale-Evans

External home page: http://ron.ludism.org/

You may know me from my articles on GameSystems in The Games Journal.

Ludography

I initiated a family of games called called Kennexions based on Hermann Hesse's Nobel-Prize-winning science fiction novel The Glass Bead Game. For an entry-level game from the Kennexions family, I suggest the KenningHaiku. There is a KenningHaikuCompetition running through 15 February 2005, with a minimum of $100 of prizes.

I wrote an article on an "EconoSplurge" Chess Variant Construction Set for the Chess Variant Pages in November 2002. I hope to write a sequel soon.

Here are some piecepack games I have authored or co-authored:

CastleCroquetnole

EasySlider

EpicFunhouse (honourable mention in the fifth piecepack game design contest)

KidSproutJumboree (winner of the first piecepack game design contest)

SnowmanMeltdown

Wormholes

I have co-authored a game for the Alpha Playing Cards game system called ?AlphaGhost.

I wrote a Cosmic Encounter variant called CosmicPig, based on the game in the juvenile SF novel InterstellarPig by William Sleator.

I rewrote the rules for DominoRasanto, a game in the ?Das Spiel dice pyramid game system, and added a timing rule.

My first serious attempt at game design was a game for the Icehouse game system called ?IceGammon, about which the less said the better.

Miscellaneous

I am married to the wonderful Marty Hale-Evans, who is a better gamer than I am and who co-authored many of the games above.

In August 2004, I was a guest of honor at Dragonflight XXV. You can read about it.

Here are my memepool contributions (under the name "tinfoil"), many of which are game-related.

Here is my BookCrossing bookshelf. I sometimes release game-related books.

Here are the five games I would take to a desert island (back in April 2001, anyway). Check out what's in my EmergencyGameKit too.

Here is my game collection on BoardgameGeek. If you click "Hide games not for trade", you can see a list of games I'm trading. (Weird interface, eh? Why not "Show games for trade"?)

I have a huge collection of gaming bookmarks at Backflip.com. I also have some game shopping bookmarks.

I'm currently working on a translation of Reiner Knizia's KartenSchach.

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