Re: [piecepack] How many games strong is Piecepack now? Is there a limit to this number?

["Mark A. Biggar" <mark.a.biggar@...>]

Electronicwaffle wrote:

> Some time ago we compared ourselves to "S.L.I.C.K." (Sortable List
> of Icehouse's Cool Kindred)  Have we surpassed their numbers yet?
> How far away are we from 100 games? LOL  could we then have a
> Piecepack "Games 100"?

There are 76 games on www.piecepack.org and another 10 in the yahoo
group rulesets-in-progress folder.  The current contest should
result in another 5-16.  So we're close to having 100 games.  SLICK
has around 120.

> Is their a Limit to the number of games Piecepack can create? 

Probably, but I don;t think we are anywhere near that limit yet.

> should
> we ever explore creating more tiles and coins per suit? (should we
> go up to 10 in tiles and coins per suit, or say 4 Ace-Red-Coins
> etc?) Should we explore the use of more bits? Is this nesescary yet?

This has been discussed previously (see mailing list archive).

> Surely everyrone's creativity comes in spurts. Are there any factors
> that affect these spurts? should we bounce more ideas off of each
> other? Im not stating that Piecepack is dying in any sense of the
> word, I'm just trying to stimulate the groups thought. I hope this
> wont "jinx" or leech on to energies in the piecepack game creating
> process.

No chance of that.  The Muse visits capriciously.


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