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Hi, I'm Ron Hale-Evans, author of the book Mind Performance Hacks and coauthor of Mindhacker.

This ever-in-progress blog/wiki is the successor to my ancient and crufty home page, which is out of date in many ways, and no longer represents me or my thinking accurately. Feel free to visit my old pages, which still contain plenty of good stuff (of course, take into account who's telling you that).

Blog

• Overwhelming Gearwheels, my current blog

Social networks and so on

• Amazon author page
• AskMetaFilter
• BoardGameGeek (wishlist and collection proper are below)
• BookCrossing
• Facebook
• Flickr
• GitHub
• Google+
• identi.ca
• LibraryThing profile
• LibraryThing author page
• LinkedIn
• LiveJournal
• memepool (old)
• Pinboard - my bookmarks
• Twitter
• WordPress

Projects

• Mind Performance Hacks: Tips & Tools for Overclocking Your Brain (2006): my first book
• Mindhacker: 60 Tips, Tricks, and Games to Take Your Mind to the Next Level (2011): unofficial sequel to Mind Performance Hacks, coauthored with Marty Hale-Evans
• Parallel Pastimes, my third book, a work in progress
• Various older prose pieces and other projects
• The Center for Ludic Synergy is the notional umbrella organization for most of my projects. I'd like to legally incorporate it as a nonprofit one day, but there are so many other interesting things to do first...

Wikis

In addition to this one, I maintain the following wikis:

• Alpha Wiki: the wiki of Alpha, the world's first (as far as we know) comprehensive word game system
• Funferall Wiki: the wiki of the Seattle/Tacoma-based Finnegans Wake reading group, Allforabit Funferall -- non-members welcome
• Game Design Wiki: all aspects of game design
• GameFrame Wiki: a free, open source MetaGame system that you can extend yourself
• Glass Bead Game Wiki: Hermann Hesse's concept of the GlassBeadGame
• Glome Wiki: higher and lower geometric dimensions
• Matrix Games Wiki: a home for Engle Matrix Games, highly improvisational simulations-cum-RPGs
• Mentat Wiki: ways to become a better thinker
• Piecepack Wiki: the piecepack is to board games what a standard deck of cards is to card games
• Rainbow Deck Wiki: the Rainbow Deck is an open card game system that enables you to play hundreds of commercial card games, and prototype your own games
• Seattle Cosmic Wiki: a small cadre of more-or-less highly trained gamers that meets to do battle every Saturday night in the Seattle area

Games

• Ludography: a list of games I've designed or co-designed.

Game Systems articles

I wrote a series of articles on game systems for The Games Journal. There are four articles in the series. I hope to expand them into a book eventually.

• Game Systems, Part 1: Introduction
• Game Systems, Part 2: Card Game Systems
• Game Systems, Part 3: Board Game Systems
• Game Systems, Part 4: Low-Tech Game Systems
• Bonus for people who are paying attention: ZenBlocks, an interview that was going to be part of Game Systems, Part 5, about dominoes, polyominoes, and polyforms

Miscellaneous

• BasicForth: a 40%-baked attempt to implement a Forth interpreter with stone knives and bearskins
• Books I've read over the years
• CommonplaceBook: Some of my favorite quotations
• FavoriteFlags
• FriendsAndFamily
• Games I own on BoardGameGeek
• ObscureGames: games I own, too obscure for BoardGameGeek
• Games to PlaySoon
• EmergencyGameKit
• FavoriteComputerGames
• Kilodeck
• ReadingPlan: The beginnings of a list of 1000 books I plan to read before I die.
• TokiPona (conlang)
• Unboxed Games Manifesto: Board gamers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your boxes...
• WebRadio
• WishList: Books, games, and miscellaneous miscellanea

Appearances

• In August 2004, I was a guest of honor at Dragonflight XXV.
• In April 2007, I was a Nifty Guest at Penguicon 5.0 in Troy, Michigan.
• I sometimes appear on radio and podcasts in connection with my books and other projects.

What people are saying about Ron Hale-Evans

"Ron Hale-Evans, escritor de profesión, diseñador de juegos por vocación y psicólogo por formación" ("writer by profession, game designer by vocation, and psychologist by training") – Planeta Diego: Linux y Software Libre

"...online wag..." – The Guardian (reference)

"...self-professedly papilionine mind..." – Lojban list

"Mr. Hale-Evans is a very pleasant 48-year-old gentleman" – an otolaryngologist

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