Dr. Lewis Pulsipher (Wikipedia: "Lewis Pulsipher"; "Britannia (board game)"; "Archomental" ) is the designer of half a dozen commercially published boardgames. His game "Britannia" is described in an Armchair General review "as one of the great titles in the world of games." Britannia was also one of the 100 games highlighted in the book "Hobby Games: the 100 Best". He has over 17,000 classroom hours of teaching experience including teaching video game design and production, and over 20 years of part-time graduate teaching experience.

His book "Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop Games, Start to Finish" (McFarland) focuses on practical advice for beginning game designers, about how you actually create and complete game designs. He also contributed to the books "Tabletop: Analog Game Design," "Hobby Games: the 100 Best," "Family Games: the 100 Best." His game design blog has been active since 2004, and he is a contributor and "expert blogger" on Gamasutra.com, the #1 site for professional video game developers.

His latest published game is "Lew Pulsipher's Doomstar", a two-player (single-player included) tactical space wargame (video, available on Steam). Hastings 1066 should be available by Thanksgiving '18. Classic Britannia will be reissued with a new, two player, 60-90 minute game. Three new versions of Britannia (tabletop), including a 90-120 minute version and a diceless version, are forthcoming, as well as other games.

Lew has a Ph.D. in military and diplomatic history from Duke University, from ancient days when degrees in media, computer networking, or game design did not exist - nor did IBM PCs. He has been a speaker in recent years at the East Coast Game Conference, GenCon, PrezCon, Origins Game Fair, and the World Boardgaming Championships. Long ago he was contributing editor for White Dwarf and Dragon magazines (among others), and publisher of various game fanzines.

Website: http://pulsiphergames.com
Game design blog: http://pulsiphergamedesign.blogspot.com/ and http://boardgamegeek.com/blog/435/pulsipher-game-design
Teach game design blog: http://teachgamedesign.blogspot.com
"Expert blogger", Gamasutra: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/LewisPulsipher/774/

Google+: google.com/+LewisPulsipher

There's a roughly twice a month column, "Worlds of Design" on ENWorld.org (the #1 site for tabletop RPGs).
Former contributing editor, White Dwarf, Dragon, Space Gamer, Gameplay, etc.

Interviews with Lew:

Boardgame University #27 (with Tom Vasel, audio): http://boardgameuniversity.libsyn.com/

Designer Spotlight (with Jason Levine, video)): http://www.dicetower.com/game-video/jason-levines-designer-spotlight-lewis-pulsipher

RPG Review (with Lev Lafayette, text): http://rpgreview.net/node/176

Lewis Pulsipher

Game designer, Teacher, Author

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