Hi everyone, After overcoming the problem of not knowing how to add to the piecepack wiki, I've added a couple of games. Some of my own design, others just...
Hi all, I added another game to the wiki: Sailing Port Flower. It's a sailing race, where you try to reach five buoys and be back in Port Flower first. You can...
What's up with Mesomorph Games? On April 15th, I ordered a piecepack set from Mesomorph Games. I received PayPal confirmation, but no confirmation directly...
Hi Eric, Although I've never ordered from Mesomorph (the transport costs would be too high since I live in Europe) I did read about the bad customer service...
Hi all, Does anyone know what happened to the piecepack wiki? For the last couple of days all I can see is a 404 notification. Seems the last update was on...
Thanks, Jonathan. Anyone who wants to stay apprised of the progress of getting the server back up can follow mindperfhacks on Twitter or just visit this page...
I received the piecepack on Monday. Mesomorph had mailed it on the 6th, according to the automated postage stamp they included. I saved the envelope - I now...
Howdy all, The piecepack Anatomy page <URL:http://www.piecepack.org/Anatomy.html> gives helpful information on the *dimensions* of piecepack components, and...
Ben Finney
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May 21, 2009 9:27 am
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Hi, When a tile is face down, everything about it (both number and suit) should be hidden. Many games use this feature (think of a tile like an square card)....
I don't have creator's authority on this point, but it would break many existing games to vary from the 'playing card' standard for the tiles. More clearly:...
With a little thought, a few solutions present themselves. You have a couple of choices. You can paint the edges uniform for all colors after you make the...
... Painting isn't an option for this manufacturing process (and would give the resulting components a much more limited useful life), which is why I've chosen...
Ben Finney
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May 21, 2009 11:19 pm
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You asked for "non-expensive" materials, but the only material I know of for the "subtractive" way of making piecepacks is a material called "engraver's...
Steve Jones <bluepantherllc@...> ... Thanks for this information. I've seen mentioned some “laminated plastics”. Should I expect those to have...
Ben Finney
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May 23, 2009 9:39 am
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Go to www.rowmark.com for info on engravers plastic. SJ ... Steve Jones Blue Panther LLC - All wood games all the time! BoardGamesNow LLC - The best indy PNP...
OK.. glow in dark piecepack with 4 colours! I want!!! :) http://www.rowmark.com/laser/LaserGlow/LaserGlow.asp Jonathan C. Dietrich Proud Member of Beaver...
The wikis hosted at Ludism.org went down on 9 May 2009 because of a hardware failure. These included the Mentat Wiki, Piecepack Wiki, Game Design Wiki, Glass...
Thanks! It seems the Creole Markup Extension uses a different way to create tables (just one "|" symbol instead of two) so all the tables on the wiki now have ...
... Thanks, Jorge. I globally searched for two pipes || and replaced them with one pipe |. The search took a really long time and made a huge hash of the wiki....
... Yeah, I'm still around. Unfortunately, I'm just about to go to Europe on sabbatical and I'm way too busy to work on anything except getting everything...
... It seems the Oddmuse extension you want is: http://www.oddmuse.org/cgi-bin/oddmuse/Search_List_Extension seems like it works at least in a similar way... ...
Nice to see you're coming to Europe :) If there is anything you would like to know about the Netherlands or our surrouding countries, let me know. I will try...
Hi all, Does anyone have the Nandeck scripts for the JCD style piecepack cards uploaded by Clark Rodeffer? Maybe they could be uploaded as well? I'm thinking...
Tables and line breaks have been fixed on the Piecepack Wiki, along with some minor annoyances, improving post-migration usability. Come on back! I'm hoping to...
... Ability to authenticate with an OpenID, instead of yet another site-specific identity? Re-licensing of the works under something actually useful for free ...
Ben Finney
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Jun 14, 2009 12:43 pm
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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 5:40 AM, Ben ... Probably not going to happen, unless you want to write an OpenID module for OddMuse. (What other wikis even use...
... MoinMoin, ikiwiki, MediaWiki, and many others can authenticate via OpenID instead of site-specific identities. (The ability often needs to be specifically...
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