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On the 21st October 2002, Euryon claimed to have created The Game in 1996. (Google cache has been deleted)

On the 7th December 2002, Marnevel quoted Euryon as his "good friend" Jamie Miller. (source)
The claim has been quoted in a number of other forums since.

In April 2006 Wikipedians investigating The Game, who had found his 2002 post, contacted someone called Euryon on flickr. He said that he was Jamie Miller and had created The Game in 1996. losethegame.com asked the Wikipedians to tell him to contact us.

He then emailed us with the following information:

He is from Walthamstow, East London, UK.
His web-pseudonym is Euryon.
He created The Game in 1996 and has since "Spread word of game through verbal communication and occasionally online chatting" .
In 1998 at the Greenbelt festival, he met a stranger, from the either north of England or Scotland, who knew about The Game. Since then he has "spread it online as much as possible... on msn/icq, or that sort of thing".
He posted the rules on the forums of dragonforce.biz (now dragonforce.com), thedarktower.net and "probably some vampire rpg site" during 2002.
Pil, who quotes him here, knew him on the dragonforce forums.
People he can remember telling about The Game include:
"Dan Storey (Friend) East London
Dan Munday (Friend) East London
Rich Miller (Brother) East London
Tom Richardson (Friend) East London
Naadir Jeewa (Friend) East London
Various students from Ilford County High School (Essex)
Various students from Davenant High School (Essex)
Various people who attended Greenbelt Arts Festival (people from all over
UK, based in Northampton)
Various people who may have frequented clubs/pubs in Essex area."