I just read about this in Games magazine: Live Oak Games is holding a game design contest for games that use the components of their abstract strategy game...
From day one I stated that I would not rush the games out, before they where ready. I also horribly underestimated my work load at college. I don't think...
I notice there are now 129 games listed under the rule sets. The last time I looked there were 128. I would like to check out the new one, but I have no idea...
... The wiki has this feature @ <http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/SortByDate> If the "new" game has been added to the wiki, you will be able to tell which it is....
The new one is "Reflec". Yes, the rule sets listing is getting a bit unwieldy. Expect to see some changes in the (hopefully) not-so-distant future that should...
The deadline for entries in the MG Piecepack Design Contest is being extended until Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. It seems that setting the deadline so soon after the...
1. The rules state that when freight or an official are on a half domino, that space becomes a zero for officials. Does that mean that movement of an official...
I just made a new photo album in the "Photos" section and uploaded a few photos of the Piecepack Trophy Cloth as it appeared while it was in my care. I...
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:28:37 -0000, Clark Rodeffer ... Wow! Those photos are totally great! People did such neat things with their signatures. Would you...
... I just realised that the photos we took were still on the Seattle Cosmic Wiki. All the previous Trophy Cloth stuff is now on the Piecepack Wiki: ...
My apologies if someone has mentioned this before, but I have created a piecepack game based on the "Ladybird Run" game in the Patience Pack Java applet. For...
So in my 3AM stumblings while I'm waiting for Debian Linux to download (I'm sick of Windows), I decided to find out if there was a Piecepack community on...
... download ... Piecepack ... now. I ... <<Snip>> Ive got an account over there at LJ as well. Can I make the community one of my friends or what? ...
Not being familiar with LiveJournal - and with no intention of burdening myself with yet another destination/portal/place-to-get-information - may I ask what ...
... You can, but that won't let you post in it. I suggest, instead, you join the community: just go to the Community Info Page (the quick way there is...
... LiveJournal isn't simply the blogging site. It's a complete social network of six million users. If the community gets actual activity, it might attract...
Hello, I'm a new member of the piecepack group and wanted to introduce myself. I've been facinated with piecepack since I read about it in the Games Journal,...
Hey Mark, Looks interesting. I will print out the rules and give it a try. My wife is a protein biochemist, I am sure she will get a kick out of the ...
Hi Mark (that name looks vaery familar :-) ) Welcome to the piecepack community. Interesting looking solitare game. The usuall way to publish piecepack game...
Thanks for trying it, Sean. As for the underlying mechanics, which your wife might be interested in, the board is basically a circular bacterial DNA strand,...
... announce it on the group (which you did) and to upload a copy of the rules to the groups ... sure to ... game list. ... Thanks, Mark. I made a pdf today...
... Just happens. Don't worry about it, Mark! Looks like an interesting game. Hope to try it soon. Ron wiki maintainer -- Ron Hale-Evans ... rwhe@......
On the Voulantary return to prison; you refer to an escaped speices returning to their hideout. Should this mean "a member of an escaped species"? That is, if...
Hi folks. I just ordered a piecepack set and plan to test it out with my regular gaming group ASAP. We normally play the heavy german board games: Tigris &...
Thanks for the read-through, waffle! ... It's impossible for you to have two aces escaped, since you can only escape if the secret hideout is full. I've tried...
... In particular you should check out http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/PharaohsHeir and http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/New_20City both very good & award winning...