Aharpo.614 net.games.emp utzoo!decvax!harpo!ber Fri May 7 07:43:51 1982 Re: Re: who else is running empire? - from a notesfile #R:u1100a:-13800:harpo:15500001:040:888 harpo!ber May 7 07:30:00 1982 ***** harpo:net.games.emp / u1100a!rick / 11:18 pm May 6, 1982 Would one of you be willing to please post a brief description of hte empire game. from all the talk, it sounds very interesting, but I dont know enough about it to be sure. Thanks! Rick Thomas ...!houxi!u1100a!rick ---------- This isn't brief but it is the overview out of the Empire Information Manual (as of 1/81) The game "Empire" is the most recent in a series of territorial conquest games inspired by a board game of the same name played at Reed College (Portland, Oregon). Earlier versions have been written at Reed by Peter Langston and at The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington) by Chuck Douglas, Peter Langston, Ben Norton and Mike Rainwater. The current version was written partly on the HRSTS Unix system at the Harvard Science Center, ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.