Jim Dunnigan

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James F. Dunnigan
Born (1943-08-08) August 8, 1943 (age 80)
Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI)
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    • James F. Dunnigan (born August 8, 1943) is an author, military-political analyst, Defense and State Department consultant, and

    wargame designer currently living in New York City
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    Dunnigan was born in Rockland County, New York. After high school, he volunteered for the military instead of waiting to be drafted. From 1961 to 1964, he worked as a repair technician for the Sergeant ballistic missile; his service included a tour in Korea. Afterwards, he attended Pace University studying accounting, then transferred to Columbia University, graduating with a degree in history in 1970.[1]

    In college he became involved in wargaming. He designed

    Simulations Publications Inc. (SPI).[3]: 98  Dunnigan created SPI to save the magazine Strategy & Tactics, which at that time was published by Chris Wagner.[3]: 98  Dunnigan had been contributing material to the magazine since its second issue in February 1967, and when Wagner was having financial challenges with the magazine he sold the rights to Dunningan for $1.[3]: 98  Dunnigan took over a windowless basement in the Lower East Side of New York City where he published his first issue, Strategy & Tactics #18 in September 1969; every issue included a new wargame beginning with that issue.[3]: 98  Dunnigan also designed the game Sniper! (1973).[3]: 98–99  Dunnigan later designed Dallas: The Television Role-Playing Game (1980), which was the first published licensed role-playing game.[3]: 99  In 1980, Dunnigan was forced to leave SPI as the financial situation at the company was deteriorating.[3]: 100  He left SPI to write more books, begin modeling financial markets, and pursue other projects.[4]

    Between 1966 and 1992, he designed over 100 wargames and other conflict simulations, ranging from 1969's Up Against the Wall, Motherfucker about the student takeover at Columbia (which he witnessed as a bystander[Note 1]), to the gigantic War in Europe, to the online Hundred Years War with his long time partners Albert Nofi and Daniel Masterson, which has been running since 1992.

    In 1979, he wrote The Complete Wargames Handbook (first edition), and in 1980 How to Make War.[4]

    Dunnigan contributed to Three-Sixty Pacific's Victory at Sea but, he claimed, was not allowed to finish the computer wargame's design, although it was advertised as "James F. Dunnigan's Victory at Sea".[5]

    With his partners from the

    Instapundit.com

    Dunnigan regularly lectures at military and academic institutions, such as the Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group, in Newport, Rhode Island.[6]

    Awards/recognition

    In 1975, Dunnigan was inducted into the Charles Roberts Awards Hall of Fame.[7] In 1999 Pyramid magazine named him as one of the millennium's most influential persons "at least in the realm of adventure gaming".[8] He was honored as a "famous game designer" by being featured on the king of diamonds in Flying Buffalo's 2008 Famous Game Designers Playing Card Deck.[9]

    Books

    Co-author

    As editor and co-author
    With William Martel
    With Austin Bay
    With Albert Nofi
    With Daniel Masterson
    With Raymond M. Macedonia

    Other works

    Games

    Notes

    1. ISBN 0-595-15546-4
      .

    References

    1. ^ "Columbia Spectator 8 December 1969 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved June 1, 2022.
    2. ^ Dunnigan, James F (2000). "Appendix". Wargames Handbook (3rd ed.). New York: Writers Club Press. p. 398.
      ISBN 0-595-15546-4
      .
    3. ^
      ISBN 978-1-907702-58-7
      .
    4. ^
      ISBN 978-1-932442-96-0
      .
    5. ^ Lombardi, Chris (May 1994). "The Old Man And The Sea". Computer Gaming World. pp. 152–156.
    6. ^ "United States Naval War College". Archived from the original on November 1, 2008. Retrieved December 11, 2008.
    7. ^ "Charles S. Roberts Award Winners (1975)". Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design. Archived from the original on May 7, 2008. Retrieved August 15, 2008.
    8. ^ Haring, Scott D. (December 24, 1999). "Second Sight: The Millennium's Best "Other" Game and The Millennium's Most Influential Person". Pyramid (Online). Retrieved February 15, 2008.
    9. ^ "Poker Deck". Flying Buffalo. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 11, 2014.

    External links

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