I am continuing work on 18IA, including running playtesting at OwlCon
at Rice University in February.
As for about the designer, I grew up in Iowa, and am in the Houston
Gamers boardgaming group. Watching Kevin Nunn, Ray Mulford, and the
others work on games has encouraged me to put together a rough draft.
My goal is to produce an entry-level 18XX game with enough interesting
features to make it worthwhile for 18AL/18GA/18FL players to try.