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Charles, Gary, thanks for your responses. First I'd like to say that I
floated the idea of the garage in addition to, rather than instead of,
Invent and Play. And I think Juan's idea is quite interesting [and
ambitious, but I certainly don't have anything against ambition] and
surely deserves to be tried out as a third separate idea. However, the
rather loose structure of the garage lends itself to taking on [at least
most of] the functions of the other 2. So I offer it as a fallback
position, should there be need of one. As designers, Gary, I think I've
been drafted, and you just volunteered... :-D

As far as defending my games, well, actually, George went to a lot of
trouble to pan those games, and I don't want him to feel bad that I
didn't keep up my end. That line I wrote in my previous comment was more
of a throwaway line to introduce the garage than to really defend my
games. Guess I shoulda put the smiley face in my statement, I didn't mean
it to be taken very seriously.*

The point about SpaceWar is that, as a concept game, it's interesting,
but now that I know it's unworkable in its present form, I don't think
it should be onsite, because now it's a fraud, in that it purports to be
a game, but it's been shown to be unplayable. And all the games I've
posted were intended to be playable. So, it gets booted. If/when it's
fixed, it'll come back. I do like the idea, and thank you, Charles, for
the kind words. 

And this leads me to the CVwiki, which we are not really using all that
much. It's a great place to play, I hope more people join us. I've been
using it to work on games that may not yet be ready for prime time. I
think it's the perfect place to put those !?!? games, the ones you're
not sure of, but really want to do. They're out where everybody can see
[and play] them, but they're not yet 'official' CV games, so you can do
things and take chances you might not with a 'serious CV'. Well, that's
my take, for what it's worth.

*don't believe any of that, George, you're killing me - keep up the good
work