Education
Pulsipher graduated from Albion College (Albion, Michigan) in 1973, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in military and diplomatic history from Duke University (1981).
Pulsipher graduated from Albion College (Albion, Michigan) in 1973, and earned a Doctor of Philosophy in military and diplomatic history from Duke University (1981).
He was the first person in the North Carolina community college system to teach game design classes (fall 2004). He has designed half a dozen published boardgames, written more than 150 articles about games, contributed to several books about games, and presented at game conventions and conferences. He discovered strategic gaming with early Avalon Hill wargames.
In college, he designed many Diplomacy variants.
While living in England in the late 1970s he wrote magazine articles about Dungeons & Dragons (Doctorate&Doctorate), and other role-playing games, and at one time or another was Contributing Editor to Dragon magazine, White Dwarf, and The Space Gamer as well as a columnist for Imagine magazine. He also contributed monsters to TSR"s original Fiend Folio, including the Elemental Princes of Evil, denzelian, and poltergeist.
He published what may have been the first science fiction and fantasy game magazine, Supernova (later sold to Flying Buffalo Incorporated), as well as other non-commercial magazines. He made presentations at game conventions as early as Origins 82.
He also designed several games published mostly in the 1980s.
He is the designer of Dragon Rage, Valley of the Four Winds, and Swords & Wizardry. His game Britannia, was described in an Armchair General review as "one of the great titles in the world of games", and is the progenitor of a series of similar games. He teaches college-level computer networking, Web development, and game design in North Carolina.
He now teaches video game related subjects, writes regularly for Gamasutra and GameCareerGuide, and continues to design board and card games.
Pulsipher, Lewis (1978), Diplomacy and Variants, Strategy Limited Swords & Wizardry, Gibsons, 1980 Valley of the Four Winds, Workshop, 1980 Dragon Rage, Dwarfstar, 1980 (not to be confused with the PlayStation 2 game Dragon Rage). The title is back in print by Flatlined since 2011.
Britannia, Gibsons, 1986. = Forthcoming Law & Chaos, Mayfair, 2013 (proposed) = Book Game Design: How to Create Video and Tabletop, Start to Finish.
Hobby: The 100 Best.
Hobby: The 100 Best.