Re: [piecepack] ANNOUNCING THE 7th PIECEPACK GAME DESIGN COMPETITION: Good Portsmanship

["Ron Hale-Evans" <rwhe@...>]

On 9/4/06, Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez <trozo@...> wrote:
> Nice! :)

Thanks.

>    Incidentally, I recently made a list at BoardGameGeek about this
> subject. It has all the existing piecepack games I was able to
> identify as being "ports" from existing commercial games (some were
> identified as such by the authors, but some were not), also games
> heavily influenced by existing games and also some obvious
> suggestions for other games that would be very easy to play with a
> piecepack set. The games in this last group are so easy to play with
> a piecepack set that I don't think they would make good candidates
> for this contest... Here's the link:
>
> http://www.boardgamegeek.com/geeklist.php3?action=view&listid=15415

This is a great list, and truthfully, it was probably an important
influence on me while I was searching for a theme for the contest, but
in retrospect it's a little hard to be completely sure. I know I read
your list around that time, but it doesn't appear in my notes. Anyway,
great stuff!

>   Well, I like the theme of the contest. I think it leaves a lot of
> room to the authors to translate an existing game into a good
> piecepack game, which is not so easy...

Leaving enough room is one of the main ideas of the contest, so I'm
glad it seems that way to you.

Again, I recommend _Le Ton Beau de Marot_ by Douglas Hofstadter, in
which Hofstadter and friends translate the same medieval French poem
into English (and other languages) hundreds of different ways. Talk
about elbow room...

Ron

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