We have no way of verifying this information for ourselves, though. Without independent verification that what you say is true, the owners of these forums set themselves up for liability in case the copyright holder should come forward and make a claim of copyright violation. If one of the mods wants to do the legwork required to try to verify that the games were released to the public, that's fine, but until someone does it is best to play it safe. When in doubt, keep it out.

Well, I tried again to find the website, but still no luck. Searching for him will be a lot of trouble, it was already almost impossible in 2004, so I don't know if you will have any luck on 2012.

I have the vague memory that his website was hosted in earthlink.net, and I also remember that the only place I could find the author was in the archives of some MTG rules mailing list, as he was a MTG judge around the time of the Visions expansion set. He had in his signature the link to his page. Maybe WotC keeps a backup of these old mailing list archives.

He was born on 1962, the address posted on the games was from a student's appartment at some university, so as soon as he graduated the address stopped working. Even though the name is Michael W. Lawrence, he used to sign as "Mike Lawrence", or "Mike L." so it isn't as easy as searching for his name at google.

I was just recovering some old files from my PC when I saw people were still looking for this game around the net, so I thought it would be helpful to share what I found after countless years looking for that game designer. I actually remember he released the games into public domain, which is far better than freeware, but I chose to say "freeware" to be cautious, as I found his website a long, long time ago.

Looking for another source, I found a place that explained that he released the first game to the public because he never finished the other two episodes that you'd get by buying the full game. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. 😒