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
Resources -- FAQs, articles and other useful stuff
A list of PiecepackExpansions

Current News

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
Cream of the Crop, by Jay Cormier and Don Kirby
Trade Routes, by Andy Van Zandt
Shark Tank, by Richard Durham
Relativity, by Marty Hale-Evans and Ron Hale-Evans"

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

Two more games have been added to the wiki: Senat and Pirates of Van Zandt. The Piecepack Wiki now has all of the games available on Piecepack.org, plus over 50 others.

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

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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