RE: [piecepack] many questions

["Iain Cheyne" <news@...>]

pete33incinci <mailto:pete_asman@...> wrote:
 
> How can I tell whether a game I come up with is using too many of
> someone else's ideas? The taxonomy page might be a start (in that it
> will help me determine whether I'm picking something that has the
> same mechanics as an existing game), but I can't tell if it includes
> all of the piecepack games.

It's been recently updated and includes almost all the current games.

It's worth remembering that the taxonomy is taken from the Oxford History of
Board Games, and is aimed at categorising what we would nowadays call
abstract games. More complex modern games, usually with several mechanics,
are just categorised as "themed".

-- 
Iain