Piecepack Wiki

Photo courtesy Brett & Board

Welcome to the piecepack wiki! The piecepack is to board games what a standard deck of cards is to card games. This is a place where the piecepack community can work on game rules and exchange reviews in a collaborative space. Every page on the site is editable by everyone (see below).

Piecepack Info

• All AboutPiecepack and more
• A list of Downloadable Piecepack Sets
• Resources -- FAQs, articles and other useful stuff
• A list of PiecepackExpansions

Current News

30 July 2011

Paul Blake, who initiated the 2010 ToyVault piecepack game design contest, has said that it is now extremely unlikely that ToyVault will publish the piecepack in any form, and that he is no longer employed there.

This is bad news for the piecepack community, of course, but at least the winners of the contest and any other entrants can now publish their games on the wiki.

5 June 2011

The home page of this wiki is now locked due to excessive spam. If you have something piecepack-related you'd like to see here, such as a news item, please email rwhe@ludism.org.

24 November 2010: One more game added to wiki

One more game has been added to the wiki: Starship Attack.

18 June 2010: Results of ToyVault's Piecepack Game Design Contest

"In no particular order, the winners of ToyVault's Piecepack Game Design contest are:

• Glob, by Antonio Recuenco Muñoz
• CreamOfTheCrop, by Jay Cormier and DonKirkby
• Trade Routes, by Andy Van Zandt
• Shark Tank, by Richard Durham
• Relativity, by Marty Hale-Evans and RonHaleEvans

For more details: http://boardgamegeek.com/article/5171073

31 May 2010: One more game added to wiki

One more game has been added to the wiki: Pisi. This game is an adaptation of Isi to the piecepack system.

9 April 2010

A full-color, five-page article about the piecepack by W. Eric Martin that originally appeared in GAMES magazine has been added to the GamesMagazine page.

26 March 2010: Two more games added to wiki

Piecepack.org, plus over 50 others.

See also OldNews

The Games

• Games -- All piecepack games with pages on the wiki
• GenericAbstracts -- Preexisting abstract games that can be played with the piecepack
• CompetitionWinners -- The winning games from the game design contests
• RecommendedGames -- The best games as recommended by the piecepack mailing list
• NotRecommendedGames -- Games people may have not enjoyed, for one reason or another
• GamesListedAtBGG -- All the games that have a link to their own BoardGameGeek? pages
• Games not on Piecepack.org
• Games needing playtesting -- Games that are labeled in need of testing and further refinement
• NewGames -- Keep up with the latest game additions to the wiki
• NumberOfPlayers -- Lists of games playable by a given number of players
• TimeToPlay -- Discover which games can be played in a given time slot
• GameMechanics -- A classification of the games by the game mechanic or feature used
• RequiredEquipment -- Discover which games you can play with the components you have
• GameThemes -- A classification of the games by theme, such as fantasy, business, or war
• TaxonomyOfPiecepackGames -- A categorisation of the piecepack games based on David Parlett's work

Competitions

• Competitions -- Piecepack community game design contests
• CompetitionWinners -- The winning games from the game design contests

The Community

• All piecepack game Designers with pages on the wiki
• Vendors who sell piecepack and piecepack related stuff
• PiecepackArt: piecepack-related arts and crafts projects

What is a Wiki?

A wiki is a web site built collaboratively by a community of users. Anyone can edit a wiki. This means you!

Feel free to add your own content to this wiki. Anything related to piecepacks is fair game. Here are some pages to help you get started.

• What is a wiki?
• Wiki social norms
• Creole -- The main markup language used on this wiki
• Creole markup additions (unofficial)
• Moin -- A secondary markup language we inherited from an earlier version of this wiki
• SandBox -- If you're just experimenting, please do it here
• PagesNeedingCleanup -- We need volunteers to fix these pages
• Index of all pages

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Board Game Internet Awards Nominee 2006 for HangingGardens by James Kyle