Richard Garfield

Name: Richard Channing Garfield
Genre: Person
Age: 50

Richard Garfield is a game designer that was born in philadelphia on June, 26, 1963. He spent much of his young life with his father who was an architect. He has designed many successful games including Magic: the Gathering with its debut in 1993 as well as other games including Roborally, King of Tokyo and a whole slew of other TCGs. 

Start of his Career

In 1985 Richard Garfield he received a bachelor of science degree in computer mathematics and later studied combinatorial mathematics at the University of Pennsylvania. Soon after he developed the idea for Roborally and decided to bring the idea to Wizards of the Coast to see if they could back the game for him. Wizards said no because it would have been too costly for them to make at the time and suggested to him that he work on some quick and easy to play game for conventions. What came out of this was the first true trading card game Magic: the Gathering. For early testing mostly a group of his close friends formed a playtesting group of sorts to test the game in its early stages of research and development. 

Current Games and Work

Garfield stepped down from Wizards of the Coast in 2000 when they sold the computer rights of D&D to Hasbro. The list of some of Garfield's current games include Netrunner, Dilbert: Corporate Shuffle, Filthy Rich, Twitch, Pecking Order, Rocketville, Stonehenge and Ghooost! just to name a few. He has worked on several of the versions of D&D over the years as well as actively contributed to the current versions of Magic: the Gathering. In more recent years he has became an independent game designer and wound up working on more computer and video games. In 1999 Garfield was inducted into the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame as was his brainchild Magic. Some of his most recent games include the TCG Android: Netrunner and his most recent card game Ghooost!

Tsuro Wants to be a Digital Game

Title: Tsuro
Genre: Tile Placing Game
Rating: 8+
Original Creator: Tom Mc Murchy
Published By: Calliope Games

Tsuro is a tile placing based game played on a 6x6 grid making a total of 36 squares to place tiles on. No two tiles are the same there are some that are similar but there are not any two that are the same, making for much more interesting games. The premise of the game is that each player is one of eight dragons each marked on the board by a differently colored marker and each is following its own path of life.

Digital Applications

Tsuro is just waiting to be made into a digital game. This game would most likely be an app like the one pictured to the left. If the game were an app with multiplayer and singleplayer based systems. The game is so much fun for the players because the goal for them may not be just to win and there are many ways of doing so as well. If a player simply wishes to crash into another player and just end the game there for both of them they could do so, or if they wished they could take a more risky path and go closer to other players in an attempt to make them go off the board or even make them collide with another player.