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

16 March 2010: Two more games added

Two more games have been added to the Piecepack Wiki: PiecepackSeabattle and ZombieInMyPiecepack. Share and Enjoy!

13 March 2010: 10 new games!

10 new games have been added to the Games page for your enjoyment. For more details, see NewGames.

February 2010: ToyVault Design Contest

The game and toy manufacturer ToyVault is currently sponsoring a game design contest for its new edition of the standard piecepack. ToyVault stopped accepting submissions for the contest on 28 February 2010 and will announce the winners after "a reasonable amount of time".

More details

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 needing playtesting -- games that are labeled in need of testing and further refinement
• 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

The Piecepack Wiki is powered by Oddmuse, and hosted by the Center for Ludic Synergy. Site administrator: RonHaleEvans.

Board Game Internet Awards Nominee 2006 for HangingGardens by James Kyle