If anyone is interested...

I had been "retired" from game design for the last 8 years or so, but participating in this forum has drawn me back into it a little bit.  The thread I started here about the Star Fleet Universe inspired me to take some of those ideas to a more appropriate forum and I now have a blog on Gamasutra.  The editors like my articles so far and will be posting them at the end of the week so they stay at the top of the member blogs for the the entire weekend which also means most of Friday and Monday so they are kind of "headlining" my articles within the member blog category for half of the week.  It started with the SFU and the vast unrecognized influence it has had on the modern game industry, but has now evolved into a discussion of the hobbyist game industry in general.  And soon I will begin an entire series of articles I am calling "Tiny Little Branches" that will ultimately lead to my revealing one of the best game concepts I ever came up with in a lifetime of considering game ideas.  My personal "Civilization Killer".

So if anyone here is interested in learning about the early history of games, and seeing my "CivKiller" revealed you can follow my blog at the address below.  I already have all of the articles for the next 2 months written, and will publish one every weekend.

http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/MarcMichalik/787769/