Re: [piecepack] Wow, somebody hates KidSprout Jumboree!

["Karol" <karol@...>]

To each his own. No offense taken. I do think that it's not a bad idea to
have as many games adapted as possible. Imagine if you were a die-hard
reversi fan but wanted to only pack one game in your travel bag - piecepack
gives you reversi and like 32 or so other games. In all fairness a die-hard
reversi fan would probably insist on packing the reversi set as well but you
get the point. I admit that I am dyslexic and it sometimes is difficult to
keep things straight when it comes to games. I like that reversi gives me an
exercise in that type of thing. I'm not saying it's for everyone or even
that every game that could be adapted should - Checkers for example, I
didn't adapt that b/c it's too difficult for those that I've seen play it to
play with piecepack since the "board" isn't checkered. They were having to
use their fingers to line up where they wanted to move, giving their
strategy away.

Not all the games that are invented or adapted will appeal to everyone, I
respect that as everyone else should.

I do like Kidsprout & Wormholes a lot. I haven't voted for any games b/c I
haven't played them all yet. Funny I would have thought in this line of work
I'd be playing a lot more than I do!

Hope everyone is getting inspired to make more games!
Karol

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Hale-Evans" <rwhe@...>
To: <piecepack@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [piecepack] Wow, somebody hates KidSprout Jumboree!


> Well, I'll fess up to being one of the 5 people to give Reversi a low
> vote.  I own four piecepacks, and I have access to a fifth through
> Seattle Cosmic, but I have no inclination to combine three of them to
> play Reversi, because I just don't think the piecepack is well-suited
> to this game.  First of all, how many other people have three
> piecepacks?  Second of all, as someone pointed out a few weeks ago, it
> is probably quite hard to distinguish the suit side from the value
> side when playing.  Nobody wants a "great mind exercise" just to see
> the pattern of pieces on the board!  All that brainpower should be
> reserved for actually playing the game.  I am guessing that is what
> other people are expressing too.
>
> But don't take it personally.  Reversi is an old, public-domain game;
> it's not as if you or Dave actually invented it.  I gave Power Lines
> a pretty high rating, as I recall.
>
> Ron
>
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:09:45PM -0400, Karol wrote:
> > and one has to wonder about that since as far as MG knows no one has
taken
> > time to put together 3 piecepacks to play it. It really is a fun game if
you
> > can remember which one you are! (a great mind exercise me thinks)
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ron Hale-Evans" <rwhe@...>
> > To: "piecepack mailing list" <piecepack@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 3:43 PM
> > Subject: [piecepack] Wow, somebody hates KidSprout Jumboree!
> >
> >
> > > Somebody must *really* hate KidSprout Jumboree.  It's rated 1 out of
> > > 10, with a total of 2 votes.  I wonder who voted, considering
> > > Wormholes is currently rated 9 out of 10 with 4 votes, and I think
> > > Jumboree is a much better game...
> > >
> > > I wish more people would vote on the games on the Piecepack Games
> > > page, so we can get a more accurate reading of how much players like
> > > various games.  Currently no game has more than 5 votes (Reversi).
> > >
> > >   http://www.piecepack.org/PiecepackGames.asp
> > >
> > > Ron
> > >
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