September 30th, 2006

* Woah! I've added 15 new games to the Canonical List. As I said last
week, I'm concentrating on Icehouse and piecepack games. I plan to
keep adding other games too. Stay tuned..
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/icehouse_games.html
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/piecepack_games.html

Random Game of the Week

[Henry VIII: Intrigue in the Tudor Court] - In this rambunctious but
historically accurate game you scheme and connive to win influence
with the King, so that your faction will control his chosen heir and
rule all England when the King dies.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_h.html#Henry%20VIII:%20Intrigue%20in\
%20the%20Tudor%20Court

New Games (as of 09/30/06)

* [Army Brats] - What could be scarier than military school? How about
being one of the new kids? Luckily, you have a cunning plan. You and
the other new kids are going to try to get expelled so you can go back
to public school with all your friends.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_a.html#Army%20Brats

* [Assassination Game Le, The] - Victim -- reach all the Secure Bases
and return to the Safe House. Assassins -- eliminate the Victim before
he can complete his mission.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_a.html#The%20Assassination%20Game%20\
Le

* [Baseball (piecepack)] - A a loose simulation of baseball for two
players, played with a piecepack set. There's plenty of luck involved,
but some of the choices managers face in real life are represented here.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_b.html#Baseball%20(piecepack)

* [Berlin] - Attempt to get 12 pieces of the Berlin Wall before your
opponents do.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_b.html#Berlin

* [Bid (piecepack)] - An abstract auction game for the piecepack -- be
the first to reach 100 points. You get points by winning auctions --
rolling dice determine the rules for each auction.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_b.html#Bid%20(piecepack)

* [Branches & Twigs & Thorns] - An elegant little strategy game for
two or four players, a chessboard, and some Icehouse pieces. Players
seek to build chains of pieces of their own color and to force their
opponents to branch of from opposing pieces of their opponents' colors.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_b.html#Branches%20and%20Twigs%20and%\
20Thorns

* [CrackeD Ice] - An Icehouse game you can play on a CD! An addictive
dexterity game in the grand tradition of Don't Tip The Waiter.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_c.html#CrackeD%20Ice

* [Gnostica] - An abstract territory based war game. Tarot cards make
up the often-changing board, and players use Icehouse pieces to
represent minions that control those territories.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_g.html#Gnostica

* [Hailstorm] - A quick, easy, luck-based game intended to feel
vaguely like craps or roulette, played with Icehouse pieces.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_h.html#Hailstorm

* [Homeworlds] - Take on the role of a space-faring civilization
that's become embroiled in an epic, galaxy-wide struggle between Good
and Evil
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_h.html#Homeworlds

* [Icehouse] - The original game to play with your elongated pyramids
-- This bizarre little game completely does away with the concepts of
turn sequence and structure, as it doesn't use turns, or rounds, or
anything else to break up the action.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_i.html#Icehouse

* [IceSickle] - The Martian Peg Game -- similar to the solitaire games
in which you capture pegs by jumping over them with other pegs.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_i.html#IceSickle

* [IceTowers] - A high-speed game of pyramid stacking, played without
turns on any flat surface
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_i.html#IceTowers

* [IceTraders] - You are the commander of a fleet of starships -- will
you play cooperatively, allying yourself with the Good side to fight
Evil, or will you be Evil, intent only on the destruction of your
fellow players?
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_i.html#IceTraders

* [Zarcana] - A game of war, journeys, growth, life, and death.
Icehouse pieces are your minions, spreading out across a world
composed of tarot cards.
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/list_z.html#Zarcana

Donald Seagraves
Game-it-Yourself
http://www.runestoneit.com/~dseagraves/