Difference between revisions of "Engle Matrix Games"
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More information on Engle Matrix Games can be found here: [http://hamsterpress.net/?page_id=15 Free Matrix Game Rules]. | More information on Engle Matrix Games can be found here: [http://hamsterpress.net/?page_id=15 Free Matrix Game Rules]. | ||
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| + | On an editorial note, there's a severe lack of information about these games available on the internet that makes it difficult to collect information about them. The [[Hamster Games]] web site doesn't list information by game. The games were all home-published, and the publisher apparently changed formats (hardback, paperback, Ziplock (whatever format that is), and boxed) frequently. The games are often referred to interchangeably as role-playing games, board games, and sometimes card games, and it's really not clear if they're the different editions of the same game or different games entirely. | ||
This is a list of [[Cthulhu Mythos]]-themed Engle Matrix Games: | This is a list of [[Cthulhu Mythos]]-themed Engle Matrix Games: | ||
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* [[Cthulhu on Campus]] | * [[Cthulhu on Campus]] | ||
* [[Dead Man on Campus]] | * [[Dead Man on Campus]] | ||
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| + | And their two-in-one games: | ||
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| + | * [[Chaos on Campus]] - [[Horror at the Miskatonic University]] (Note: This could actually just be one game. It was hard to tell.) | ||
| + | * [[Cthulhu on Campus]] - [[Dead Man on Campus]] | ||
[[Category:Board Games]] | [[Category:Board Games]] | ||
Revision as of 05:35, 11 March 2016
Engle Matrix Games are a type of game designed by Chris Engle and published by Hamster Games. The games are all the same on a mechanical level, with each game distinguished only by its individual story or setting.
Every Engle Matrix game can be played as a standalone game; there is no core game that it is necessary to purchase.
These games are generally storytelling board games, using discussion between players as a conflict resolution tool, modeled after a real-life psychotherapy tool. Additionally, when these games are referred to as "role-playing games", it's closer to role-playing in the psychological therapy sense than the tabletop gaming industry definition of role-playing game. Unlike most other Cthulhu Mythos-themed games, which treat insanity as an amusing lark, Engle Matrix Games takes an approach to the subject closer to real-world psychological therapy.
More information on Engle Matrix Games can be found here: Free Matrix Game Rules.
On an editorial note, there's a severe lack of information about these games available on the internet that makes it difficult to collect information about them. The Hamster Games web site doesn't list information by game. The games were all home-published, and the publisher apparently changed formats (hardback, paperback, Ziplock (whatever format that is), and boxed) frequently. The games are often referred to interchangeably as role-playing games, board games, and sometimes card games, and it's really not clear if they're the different editions of the same game or different games entirely.
This is a list of Cthulhu Mythos-themed Engle Matrix Games:
- Arkham Terror
- Arkham Terror: Experimental Therapy
- Cthulhu Madness: Aliens
- Cthulhu Madness: Apocalypse
- Cthulhu Madness: House of Dagon
- Cthulhu Madness: Midnight in the Graveyard
- Cthulhu Madness: Reanimator
- Cthulhu on Campus
- Dead Man on Campus
- Voodoo Beach Party
And their two-in-one games:
- Chaos on Campus - Horror at the Miskatonic University (Note: This could actually just be one game. It was hard to tell.)
- Cthulhu on Campus - Dead Man on Campus
