Recent Updates
For a list of articles by me, see the Articles page.
| 10th May, 2008 | Added Russian Rules Translation |
| 6th January, 2008 | Removed A New Malthusian Scale (see Exponentialist website), Mechanism Of Population Doubling (see Exponentialist website), discussion on 6 Billion™ with Richard Vickery, Matrioshka Brain debate with Robert Bradbury. |
| 18th November, 2005 | Updated information on Kuiper Belt Objects |
| 25th February, 2005 | Added Portuguese translation of Rules, and Summary. Updated English rules to Version 2.1, and added question 3 on FAQ. |
| 16th September, 2004 | Added Games Games Games (Issue 137) review by Mike Siggins, plus my response from Issue 139. More minor amendments of Counter-related pages. Updated my Dave Farquhar 6 Billion review page with link to article by Mike Siggins about Dave (who passed away this year). |
| 14th September, 2004 | Re-organised pages relating to Counter 7, 11 and 12. Added Gamers Alliance (Fall 1999) review of 6 Billion by Herb Levy. |
| 10th - 11th September, 2004 | Many small updates and fixes to links. Added Moves (Issue 102) review of 6 Billion by Jean Jodoin. |
| 22nd November, 2003 | Updated Spanish Translation of 6 Billion rules, and added Ejemplo de juego |
| 13th July, 2003 | Added Spanish Translation of 6 Billion rules |
| 10th March, 2002 | To reduce junk email, I removed all direct links to my email address except the one at Contact me. Each page now links to Contact me. |
| 20th January, 2002 | Amended The Cassandra Prophecy to The Cassandra Prediction for copyright reasons (see top of article for detail). |
| 9th December, 2001 | Updated links to Nigel Malthus from Malthus - An Atheist View and A New Malthusian Scale |
| 2nd December, 2001 | Updated Malthus - An Atheist View |
| 25th November, 2001 | Updated all external links |
| 16th July, 2001 | Added Moral Restraint variant. Updated The Cassandra Prophecy |
| 17th June, 2001 | Added a couple of photographs to Malthus - An Atheist View |
| 3rd June, 2001 | Added 512 and 1024 versions to New Malthusian Scale. Added hyperlinks to 6 Billion Rules (Version 2). |
| 4th May, 2001 | Added Grey Goo - An Exponentialist Explanation, the Alphabet Option For The New Malthusian Scale (constant rate) and the Alphabet Option For The New Malthusian Scale (variable rate) |
| 2nd May, 2001 | Added my Overpopulation post to KurzweilAI.net onto 6 Billion™ site, and further small changes to Malthus - An Atheist View, The Cassandra Prophecy and Links |
| 30th April, 2001 | Updated Mechanism Of Population Doubling |
| 20th April, 2001 | Added new external links supporting my arguments on The Mechanism Of Population Doubling, The Cassandra Prophecy and The New Malthusian Scale. In particular, see {Natural Selection and Differential Reproduction - from Replicators: Evolutionary Powerhouses} |
| 16th April, 2001 | Added a discussion on 6 Billion™ with Richard Vickery. Added an addendum to Matrioshka Brain debate with Robert Bradbury. |
| 28th March, 2001 | Added Dave Farquhar's Comments on 6 Billion™ from 1999. Updated Miscellaneous Articles page to include links to my articles on Design & Production of 6 Billion™ and Designer Notes written for Funagain Games. Updated Crude Guide To Energy Levels In The Solar System to include bibliography. |
| 20th March, 2001 | Added Larry Levy's response to my reaction on his comments in Counter 11. Updated Malthus - An Atheist View |
| 16th March, 2001 | Added Stuart Dagger's comments from Counter Issue 12. |
| 9th March, 2001 | Updates to David Coutts profile, and The Cassandra Prophecy. |
| 4th March, 2001 | Removed brief exploration of demographic future from Per Ardua Ad Astra and created Exploring Or Demographic Future |
| 22nd February, 2001 | Improved navigation throughout site. Corrections and enhancements to Population Doubling |
| 21st February, 2001 | Added A New Malthusian Scale. Removed all retail pages not relating to 6 Billion™. |
| 3rd February, 2001 | Added The Cassandra Prophecy and Crude Guide To Energy Levels In The Solar System. |
| 9th January, 2001 | Added Stuart Dagger's comments on my reply to his review of 6 Billion in Counter issue 7. Added a (lengthy) reply to his comments. You can find the whole thing here. |
| 3rd January, 2001 | Had to remove DHTML effects from all 6 Billion related pages as there were problems viewing the pages from Netscape. (This started when I switched from using FrontPage 98 to FrontPage 2000). |
| 2nd January, 2001 | Completed rebuttal to Larry Levy's comments on 6 Billion™ in Counter issue 11 (see Review page for his comments). In the rebuttal, I've added the Kuiper Belt variant (inspired by Freeman J. Dyson). |
| 30th December, 2000 | Updated numerous articles for 6 Billion (check the date stamps on the articles, which you'll find under Links). Added Matrioshka Brain variant to Variants page. Added rebuttal to Larry Levy's comments on 6 Billion™ in Counter issue 11 (see Review page for his comments). Also added a link on the Review page to a new review of from The Goblin Lair. |
| 23rd December, 2000 | Added the Crude Guide To Travel Times In The Solar System for 6 Billion and Once Around The Sun |
| 7th December, 2000 | Added links to Links page (including the excellent Solarpop Java program), and variants Once Around The Sun & Hunter Gatherer to Variants page for 6 Billion |
| 20th October, 2000 | 6 Billion™
has been listed in Games Magazine's Games100 for 2001! ![]() |
| 10th August, 2000 | Updated 6 Billion pages on Game Theory, Population Doubling Mechanism (added quote from Dawkins) and Per Ardua Ad Astra (added comments on Kardashev). |
| 3rd August, 2000 | Added a page on Game Theory (more of a call to arms, really). |
| 1st August, 2000 | Added link to 6 Billion Designer Notes (written for Funagain Games). |
| 23rd July, 2000 | Added Italian translation of 6 Billion Variants and Play Hints |
| 22nd July, 2000 | Added Italian translation of 6 Billion Example Of Play, plus minor updates to English FAQ and Summary Table |
| 21st July, 2000 | Added Italian translation of 6 Billion Rules (version 2) and Summary Table. Thanks to Guido Ceccarelli (The Goblin) of The Goblin's Lair. |
| 20th July, 2000 | Amended Translations offer slightly, and updated Play Hints on 6 Billion homepage |
| 15th July, 2000 | Added Translations offer to 6 Billion homepage |
| 11th July, 2000 | Added some links on Game Theory |
| 10th July, 2000 | Added Migrants / Colonies design note to FAQ and links to Arthur C. Clarke and Marshall T. Savage articles to Per Ardua Ad Astra. Just finished reading Ray Kurzweil's The Age Of Spiritual Machines - I've added various links across the 6 Billion pages. |
| 8th July, 2000 | Re-arranged 6 Billion homepage to make links more obvious, plus minor changes. Updated Earth First variant on Variants page. Removed all rules questions from FAQ (which were incorporated into Version 2 of the rules back on 5th February, 2000). |
| 7th July, 2000 | Added Earth First variant, and made minor changes, to 6 Billion Variants page. Updated Per Ardua Ad Astra to link to Variants page. |
| 6th July, 2000 | Updated 6 Billion Reviews page, added a link to my Favourites from my Profile page and tweaked article Per Ardua Ad Astra. |
| 3rd July, 2000 | Updated 6 Billion homepage, and article Per Ardua Ad Astra. |
| 25th April, 2000 | Added article on How We Got To 6 Billion, and Australia In Detail as background information for a future 6 Billion variant. |
| 24th April, 2000 | Updated 6 Billion Reviews page with my responses to Counter and Gamers Alliance. |
| 13th February, 2000 | Updated Population Doubling Mechanism article for 6 Billion |
| 5th February, 2000 | Added Rules (Version 2) page , and updated Reviews, Links, 6 Billion homepage |
| 18th January, 2000 | Thanks for the feedback on the Per Ardua Ad Astra page for 6 Billion. I've made some changes as a result. |
| 17th January, 2000 | Updated Play Hints for 6 Billion |
| 3rd January, 2000 | Updated Population Doubling Mechanism, and Per Ardua Ad Astra pages for 6 Billion |
| 29th December, 1999 | Updated Play Hints, Variants, Links, Population Doubling Mechanism, and Per Ardua Ad Astra pages for 6 Billion |
| 23rd December, 1999 | Updated 6 Billion homepage, Links and Reviews pages |
| 16th December, 1999 | Updated Reviews page for 6 Billion |
| 12th December, 1999 | Added The Planets & The Asteroid Belt design notes for 6 Billion |
| 11th December, 1999 | Created separate Links page for 6 Billion |
| 4th December, 1999 | Corrected format problems to various emails (they should all work now), updated Reviews page and Play Hints and links for 6 Billion |
| 29th November, 1999 | Minor changes to Deutsch Regeln (12.3, 13.4, &14.1) |
| 24th November, 1999 | Added link to Design & Production of 6 Billion on Discovergames website. |
| 19th November, 1999 | Added Beispielpartie mit den Grundregeln page, updated Spiel '99 report slightly, and Reviews page |
| 14th November, 1999 | Added my Spiel '99 Essen
report. Added Discover Games link and link to Going It Alone article
about the Design and Production of 6 Billion |
| 13th October, 1999 | Added Reviews links page |
| 12th October, 1999 | Added Translation page
(German/Deutsch only at the moment) for 6 Billion |
| 26th September, 1999 | Minor changes to Profile, Example Of Play and Population Doubling Mechanism pages. |
| 22nd September, 1999 | Added details for Spiel'99. We're at Stand Number 903, Hall 9. |
| 18th September, 1999 | was held 2nd to 6th September, 1999. As it's over,
I've updated the 6 Billion page and Photographs page. Tidied up Profile
page. |
| 1st September, 1999 | Added Profile page link and Population Doubling Mechanism page links to 6 Billion page. Updated comments on Photographs page. Added links to sites about our Solar System to 6 Billion page. |
| 30th August, 1999 | Added Photographs page |
| 29th August, 1999 | Change to Orange's turn 9 in 6 Billion Example of Play. Updated FAQ. |
| 21st August, 1999 | Added 2-Player Game Reports to 6 Billion. Highlighted the Billabong Session Report for My First Game of 6 Billion. |
| 17th August, 1999 | Added to 6 Billion page. |
| 12th August, 1999 | Improved navigation between 6 Billion pages, and minor cosmetic changes. |
| 11th August, 1999 | Updated FAQ and Variants again for 6 Billion |
| 7th August, 1999 | Updated 6 Billion homepage (International Postage rates) - it's available NOW! Also updated 6 Billion Example Of Play, FAQ and Variants pages. Australian postage rates now 15%. |