See his ???Designer Perspective??? interview on page 23.
Richard Gar?¬? eld
In 1990 Richard Gar?¬? eld was an unknown mathematician and part-time game designer. He had been trying
unsuccessfully to sell a board game prototype called RoboRally to publishers for seven years. When
yet another publisher rejected his concept, he was not surprised. However, this time the publisher, a man
named Peter Adkison doing business as Wizards of the Coast, asked for a portable card game that was playable
in under an hour. Gar?¬? eld took the challenge and developed a dueling game system where each card in
the system could a?¬? ect the rules in di?¬? erent ways. It was a breakthrough in game design because the system
was in?¬? nitely expandable. The game was Magic: The Gathering, and it single handedly spawned the industry
of collectible card games. Magic has been released in digital format in multiple titles. When Hasbro bought
Wizards of the Coast in 1995 for $325 million, Gar?¬? eld owned a signi?¬? cant portion of the company. See his
article, ???The Design Evolution of Magic: The Gathering,??? on page 191.
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