Many years ago, a friend of mine inquired about how I was doing in terms of the designing process for Zhadu. I responded that I felt guilty for I hadn’t put any time and energy into it for at least a month. I told him that my concern was whether or not I had lost [...]

Welcome to my first original collection of classic strategy entitled “Zhadu : Legend of the Sharing.” Originally created in 1993, this latest edition includes an enriched narrative and storyline that will provide timeless moments of challenge and intrigue.
Zhadu is the first chapter of a sacred journey told through the eyes of a fictional traveller [...]

In 1993, I was given the task by a mentor of mine to create a special kind of game. That very night I had a dream that I was on sitting before an old man on a mountain somewhere in India. In the center of the rug that we were sitting on was a wooden [...]

For many years, I endeavored to find ways to bring the storyline of Hakummar more to the forefront in Zhadu. Although the original guidelines had a page or two written with a sampling of narrative, it wasn’t enough to really provide a context.
So, in the Fall of 2006, I decided to re-write the entire guidelines [...]

In Zen Buddhism, the phrase “not-two” is often used as a suggestive device to highlight the illusionary nature of  “separateness”. What is interesting about this particular phrase is that it affirms, in the negative, the so-called “unity of life.” So rather than say the “oneness” of life, the phrase “not-two” is used instead perhaps to [...]