Foreword

When Jonathan Harbour asked me to write the foreword to this book, I was quite honored. I first met Jon when I started teaching game design at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona. As a novice teacher, I was very grateful to Jon for offering his advice and assistance. Because he taught game programming and I taught game design, it was natural that we would work together.

We also hit it off simply as gamers. We both love strategy games, and we found that we are both huge board wargame fans. We especially enjoyed a WWII battle game called Memoir ’44, but our most intense confrontations were in Twilight Struggle, a game covering the entire Cold War period in an innovative card-driven format.

We soon discovered that we ...

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