| Chaos_General Rules and explanation for a game where the deck is only 9 cards. |
| Dragonlance_Collector_Card_Game Details rules of the card game, as well as information and download of the computer version. |
| Echelon Turn-based WWII themed game. Contains information on the game, photos, and online sale. |
| Galactic_Warfare A science fiction RPG. Includes game rules and information. |
| 7_Hammer_Productions Official site for the Angelfire trading card game. Features character information, rules, and store. |
| Hecuba_Games Offers news service and product reviews for CCGs. |
| Identity_Crisis Game about of the meaning of life, full of self-deprecating humor. It's Swingers vs. Wall Street, where players compete to become the richest or hippest, but can't manage both. |
| Improbable_Mission Providing checklists, images and general information to collectors of Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Covers both the English and the Japanese versions of both card games. |
| Killamon Information on the card game and the comic. |
| Mage_Warfare____Where_Realities_Collide Features card information and deck tips. |
| The_Place_for_Games Organizes tournaments and events for play of games such as Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic: The Gathering. |
| Rumble_Robots_UK Includes a forum, the best places to buy the game, and latest news. |
| Spacemon Official site for the Spacemon collectible card game. Offers news, game rules, and information on the races. |
| Spythrillogy Role-playing card game of international espionage and intrigue. |
| The_Team_Rocket_Gym Hints and tips for deck building as well as alternate rules for a variety of games. |
| Timestream_Traveller Fan page of Timestream: The Remnant features PDF format rules. |
| Ultramancool\'s_Domain Images of Geneforge cards. |
| VEX Offers game and ordering information. |
| WAM Baltimore convention. Includes 2002 World Strategy Gamer Rankings as well as miscellaneous downloads. |
| Warriors Offers game rules and card lists. |
| Corx Game of skill using cork pieces. Describes the rules of the game and offers playing pieces and accessories. |
| Donut_Disaster Rules for the Parker Brothers game of placing foam rings onto a plastic machine before it explodes. |
| Flame_Sticks Photos, tricks, information on the game, and juggling. |
| Speed_Stacks Dedicated to spreading the game of cup stacking around the world. Includes rules, news and events. |
| Blacksburg_Tactical_Research_Center Produces a number of role-playing games, board games and supplements. |
| Briarpatch Developer of board, card, and puzzle games for children. |
| Cactus_Marketing International licensing agents for toy and game inventors. |
| Cardinal_Industries Developer of board, card, and travel games. |
| Conceptual_Math_Media,_Inc_ Designs and produces math educational products. Site offers game and company information. |
| Divinity_Games Produces Catholic family and bible trivia games. |
| DVS_Games Developer of card and board games. |
| Ferdinand_Piatnik_and_Sons_of_Vienna Produces toys, games, puzzles, memo games, children cards, activity, and playing cards. One of the oldest game producers in Europe. [English, Deutsch] |
| Freak_Factory_Game_Studios Creates RPGS, CCGs, and board games such as Red Tape, Game: The Gaming, and Porn Star. |
| FRV_Group Board and card game manufacturing company provides production, printing, sourcing, assembly, fulfillment and marketing services. |
| Game_Publishers_Association Professional association of small press publishers, focusing on adventure hobby games and related products. |
| Games_to_Remember Developers of ZooMania and Funky Monkey. |
| Gic-Software Developes games for smart phones, and held computers, PDA's, laptop and desktop computers. |
| Goliath_Games Distributes card and board games to a mainly UK market. |
| Guild_of_Blades_Publishing_Group Provides ordering and wholesale catalog, company information, and product lines. |
| Hasbro_World Producer of toys, board, and video games. |
Spellbinder 
Around 1977, I designed a pencil-and-paper game which I called (after somedeliberation, as all the best names were taken)Spellbinder. Its premise was that two (or more) wizards wereplaced together in an arena, where they battled it out using spells made bystringing together series of (originally 5) basic gestures. I had been thinkingfor some time about the similarity between generating spells andprogramming computers, and this is what I finally designed in response. It bears a superficial resemblance to certain aspects of the duelling system fromthe Three Musketeers-era game En Garde!, which I had played at the time, but these are coincidental; the two games are verydifferent.For the first version, I used a board. Wizards were able to walk around, spells being represented by counters that moved at different speeds depending on how many gestures were used to create them. Although this worked, the map was cluttered and the bookkeeping tiresome; I felt itwould make for quicker and more exciting play if I abstracted out the positional information and concentrated on the fun part - "programming" spells on-the-fly from gestures.This second version also worked, but the strategy aspect was now exposed astoo shallow. I therefore allowed wizards to gesture withboth hands instead of just one, and introduced an extra, two-handed gestureto enforce occasional reconciliation between the gesture streams. I printedthe rules to this third version in my postal games magazine, Sauce of the Nile.The game was warmly received, and several games were played successfullyby post. I negotiated for it to be published commercially by the same people who did my programmed-adventure game The Solo Dungeon, but (sigh) they went bankrupt before it happened. Unable to publish it myself (I was 17 andpenniless at the time), I pretty well had to give up on that idea.Consequently, when one of my magazine's subscribers, Mike Lean, asked to reproduce the rules to Spellbinder in his own postal games magazine, Duel Purpose, I gave him permission and forgot about it. Well, that's not perhaps strictly true: the magic system from Spellbinder formed the basis of the one in my novel,INflamessight,however as a game I didn't do anything with it at all.Many years later, I learned that people had programmed upSpellbinder to beplayed on computer. There were versions for email and head-to-head play. I was cited as its author, but was believed deceased (which, to the best ofmy knowledge, I am not). The game was also renamed each time it wasrewritten, which is hardly surprising given the lousy title I gave itmyself! I was nevertheless quite pleased to find that what I knew asSpellbinder was out there, living free, after all that time; it was like finding a long-lost friend.There arefive different versions of Spellbinder that I'm aware of: 
INsightflames, the novel inspired by the game. Copyright © Richard A. Bartle (richard@mud.co.uk) 2nd August :\webdes~1\ m.htm 