Re: [piecepack] The piecepack is in GAMES Magazine!

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:18:08PM -0700, Mark A. Biggar wrote:
> Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
> > Hey all--
> > 
> > Looks like our favourite game system made it into the July 2004 issue
> > of _Games_.  The lead article for this issue (page 8) is by W. Eric
> > Martin and is entirely about the piecepack.  It's five full pages long
> > and includes a full-colour spread with a Mesomorph 3rd Edition set in
> > all its glory.  There are interviews with several piecepack notables,
> > including James Kyle (of course!), Phillip Lerche, Karol Boyle, and
> > Iain Cheyne.  The complete rules for Fujisan are included, as well as
> > a Fujisan puzzle by James.  I'm feeling a bit like chopped liver,
> > especially since Eric already knows me, but I am overjoyed about this
> > level of exposure for the piecepack.  Congratulations to all involved!
> 
> Yeah, really great article.  The only thing I wish it had was a side box
> with the web resource URL's, only www.piecepack.org got mentioned, the
> wiki and the yahoo group are missing.
> 
> Sorry you got ignored Ron, but I'm happy that I was mentioned by name
> and two of my games were mentioned as well (Ppolf [by name] and Worm
> Derby [indirectly by description]).

Yes, congratulations to you, Mark.  Good show!

I regretted the "chopped liver" remark soon after I made it.  I
thought about it and really do not feel left out anymore.  After all,
it was a five-page article, not a book, and things have to be omitted
even from books for reasons of space.  Clark Rodeffer, our last
contest winner and current contest judge, was not mentioned or
interviewed (AFAIK), so why should I think I'm a must to include?
Anyway, like Worm Derby, both Epic Funhouse and the Ludic Synergy
Competition were mentioned indirectly by description, and Eric dropped
me a nice email message to say that editors tend to prefer a variety
of sources, so since he had interviewed me for his last _Games_
article (on metagames), he thought it best to talk to other people for
this one.  Thus, no hard feelings.

As for the web resources (mailing list, wiki) that didn't get
mentioned, at least they're accessible from Piecepack.org.  I just
wish the editors had highlighted _that_ address more scrupulously.  It
was buried in the text the one or two times it was mentioned, and one
of those times it was broken across a line like this:

Blah blah blah www.piece
pack.org blah blah blah.

At least they didn't hyphenate it at the break, or people would be
getting "domain not found" errors for www.piece-pack.org!

I think this article will be good for everyone in the piecepack
community, whether they or their games were mentioned or not.

Best to all,

Ron

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