Major Fun is also known as the cornivorous teacher and writer, William Bain!

Will teaches college English at the Charles A. Tindley Accelerated School where he is also the Assistant Dean of Early College. He was brought into the fold of education through the wrinkly and disheveled laundry basket of team-building, adventure learning, and cooperative play. Between those two poles, Will picked up a Master’s in Education, an MFA in Creative Writing (that explains any “mistakes” you might find in his writing– it’s ART!!), helped start three schools, helped end another school, published some short stories, and failed to publish a novel.

Around 2009, Will had the great fortune to make the acquaintance of Bernie DeKoven (General Fun, ret.) with whom he started playing games and writing reviews for the Major Fun site. Little did he know that Bernie was grooming him to helm the wheel of the majestic virtual vessel, the WWW Major Fun Dot Com. Will has been equal parts thrilled, terrified, and bemused by the whole process and unrelenting responsibility.

Will lives in Indianapolis with his two daughters and a close coterie of friends and games tasters who are on call 24 hours a day (as long as Will does not expect an answer 18 of those 24 hours). He plays ultimate frisbee during the summer months and enjoys board games all year long.

General Fun is the founder of the Major Fun awards – award-winning designer, educator, and fun theorist Bernie DeKoven!

The General has been circumventing seriousness by inventing new ways to play since the early 1970s when he developed a curriculum in social skill development through games for the School District of Philadelphia. He further furthered fun by leading the New Games Foundation in its international training program for facilitating large scale community play events.

He first started reviewing board and table games professionally in the early 70s where he developed the Games Board – a game evaluation program for parents and community leaders. He then wrote reviews and contributed some of his own rather brilliant game concepts to Games Magazine. He also worked as a game designer for Ideal Toy Company, and Mattel Media, and created his own award-winning designs for Children’s Television Workshop.

He received the Ifil-Reynolds award for outstanding achievement from the North American Simulation and Gaming Association and is a lifetime member of The Association for the Study of Play, neither of which is a laughing matter. He has consulted to LEGO as well as independent game inventors and publishers who want to make their games more fun.