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BIOGRAPHY Garfield spent his childhood in many locations throughout the world as a result of his father's work in architecture. His family eventually settled in Oregon when he was 12. While always having an interest in puzzles and games, his passion for games began when he was introduced to '' Dungeons & Dragons ''.1 Garfield designed his first game by the time he was 13.2 In 1985, he received a Bachelor Of Science degree in Computer Mathematics . He joined Bell Laboratories , then decided to continue his education and attended the University Of Pennsylvania , and studied Combinatorial Mathematics . He began designing '''' as a Penn Graduate Student . A group of Playtester s, comprising mostly fellow Penn students, formed around the developing game.3 While searching for a publisher for RoboRally , which he designed in 1985, Garfield found Peter Adkison of Wizards Of The Coast , who expressed interest in ''Magic''. Garfield studied under Herbert Wilf and earned a Ph.D. in Combinatorial Mathematics from Penn in 1993. He became a professor of mathematics at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington . ''Magic: The Gathering'' launched in 1993. Playtesters began independently developing Expansion Pack s, which were then passed to Garfield to edit. Garfield left academia to join Wizards of the Coast as a full-time game designer in June 1994. He was a primary play tester for the '' Dungeons & Dragons '' 3rd edition bookset, released by Wizards in 2000. He eventually left Wizards to become an independent game designer. He still sporadically contributes to ''''.4 More recently, he has created the board games ''Pecking Order'' (2006)5 and ''Rocketville'' (2006). The latter was published by Avalon Hill , a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast.6 He has shifted more of his attention to Computer Game s. Garfield is a cousin of Henry Rollins . GAMES DESIGNED A partial list of games designed by Richard Garfield:
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