Hello, I've posted a new game to the wiki: http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/SpaceTraders This is a work in progress, but is playable. I'd really appreciate some...
I've just posted a new game on the wiki: http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/MazeMakers It's actually an older game I made, but I just wrote the rules into a nice...
This looks like it might be of interest to the group. If anyone develops a piecepack game over Volity, please let the group know. From the site: Volity is an...
... Appears that Looney Labs already has gotten to it. Looney Labs invented Ice House. Ice House uses pyramids. Piecepack pyramids came out after Looney's....
... based ... and ... The page is blank for me this morning.. is this anything like these? Cyberboard http://cyberboard.brainiac.com/index.html VASSAL...
... Volity is a different kind of beast. All of the others are closer to "virtual cardboard". You have all of the pieces and you get online and can push them...
... [Apologies to those receiving this multiple times.] *** U-Con 2006 in Ann Arbor, Michigan *** *** Nov 17-19 including all-day Friday! *** *** EVENT...
... I would LOVE to have a Piece Packing Pirates event, but even I don't have enough piecepacks to field it as a tournament. With three other (sponsored!)...
Good Luck. I have been trying to contact Toren since March and nothing. Nada. Zip. By the way has anyone on this list ever ordered anything from Ice Pack...
The winner: Piecepack Letterbox, by Ron Hale-Evans While we had several games which were very good, Letterbox had the best combination of game play, solid...
... W00t! Worth the wait! Thanks, Dave! Thanks also to my game design group EGGS and my regular game night Seattle Cosmic for playtesting, and my beautiful and...
... Since I'm guessing Dave will not have time to post game PDFs on the Big Board until he returns from GenCon, I've posted the version of Piecepack Letterbox...
Hi I just read the rules and the game seems to be very fun. I don't have a Seasons piecepack set, but I think I'm going to build one to try this one out :) The...
http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/pplb.html ... Thanks, Jorge! ... Something like this was actually a rule at one point in the design process, but it was hard to...
... Can you explain? I don't understand... When you finish the game it is easy to prove your letterbox was found (you've got to have at least one of your own...
... Sorry for being unclear. What I meant was that a rule stating you had to make your clue easy was hard to enforce and didn't help the play. People would...
Hello, I understand, and see how enforcing a rule that says the clues cannot be hard would be impossible, as different people would have a different opinion on...
... Congratulations, Ron! Indeed, from the preview I saw, Piecepack Letterbox looks like a great game and a worthy winner. Kudos! Since the contest has closed,...
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... Well, all I can say in the end is that such a rule didn't work with my playtesters in practice. You're free to develop a variant. If it works for your...
... I guess it is quite subjective, as I said, I'll have to try it out to really see if it would work... I may find it doesn't work either... Cheers, -Jorge...
Perhaps the timing on this question is lacking, and perhaps it should be asked by someone else besides me. However. I think the question remains valid for our...
... No, this is a valid question in any board game, not just the piecepack. ... For my part, I need some luck in games. Otherwise, I start settling into...
I was skimming over Piecepack Letterboxing, and I knew that one of my games had a similar concept. Let me state that I have not read Letterboxing in full, and...
Hm, I'm not really sure what you're trying to say about the discussion about hard and easy clues. Could you please elucidate? It might help if you read the...
Please find my first piecepack game uploaded to the Rulesets in Progress folder in the files. It is a 3 to 4 player strategy game in which you have to get your...