RE: [piecepack] Zillions of Games

[Michael Schoessow <mschoessow@...>]

Thanks David, and I wouldn't say it was off topic at all. There are actually
quite a few abstract strategy games in general that can be played with one
or more piecepacks.
 
 
-Mike Schoessow

-----Original Message-----
From: davidlhsl [mailto:DavidLHsl@...]
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:26 PM
To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [piecepack] Zillions of Games


Since piecepack is such an interesting generic game set, and since 
piecepack owners are probably also fans of abstract strategy games, 
I thought I'd pass along the website of a terrific Windows program 
called Zillions of Games (www.zillions-of-games.com). If you click 
on "Download Free Games," you'll find a listing of game files that 
can be played with Zillions. However, you can use one or more 
piecepacks, along with other gaming pieces, to play many of these 
games. Examples (follow the links at the Zillions website, because 
each game has a page that describes each game in pretty good detail):

Gorgon (you can probably do this with 2 piecepacks)

Armada (1 or 2 piecepacks)

Epaminondas (2 piecepacks for the board; you need 28 tokens per 
player for the pieces) - I love this game!

Yucata (2 piecepacks and a deck of cards)

Sailing for Two (3 piecepacks) - this would require some planning to 
adapt to piecepack, but you can probably create rules for the 
direction of travel allowed by each suit of tile.

Breakthrough (1 piecepack to create the board; enough tokens for 
both players to have 14 tokens each)

Campaign (2 piecepacks to create the board, enough tokens for each 
player to identify their squares) - since Joust was adapted for the 
piecepack, this game provides an interesting variant.

Anyway, Zillions can provide ideas for different type of games you 
can try out with your piecepacks. As I mentioned in a prior post, I 
found that poker chips can be used to make a hexboard of any size. I 
mention Zillions in this forum because I noticed Mancala and Reversi 
have been adapted, and I thought this program may be of interest. 
BTW - I am not affiliated with Zillions in any way.

My apologies if this is considered off-topic.

David



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