I haven't had time to read through the rules, but it seems
interesting. The thing is I'm not sure when I'll be able to play it,
as I do most of my gaming with my girlfriend... But if I get the
chance, I'll try it
-Jorge
On Dec 23, 2006, at 4:43 AM, Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
> Happy holidays, everyone.
>
> Has anyone played (or even looked at) Tile 13? I realise that one
> reason I haven't heard any session reports yet may be that it requires
> so many piecepacks (one for each player, plus one more).
>
> In hindsight, I also realise the description below is dry. Tile 13 is
> actually kind of a goofy, fun game. Some of my friends in EGGS
> (Experimental Game Genesis of Seattle) think it's one of the two best
> games I've ever designed -- I guess partly because they're game
> designers, and Tile 13 is about game design. So if you're a game
> designer (and who isn't, on this list?), you might like it too.
>
> Hope you get lots of gaming in by 2007.
>
> Ron
>
> On 12/15/06, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
>> As promised, I just uploaded a new game to the Piecepack Wiki and
>> emailed it to submissions@... for the Big Board. You can
>> get
>> it here:
>>
>> http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/TileThirteen
>>
>> Here's the description, to whet your appetite (or make you lose it).
>> Feedback is most welcome!
>>
>> Ron H-E
>>
>> *****
>>
>> In Tile 13, players take the role of entrants in a series of public
>> piecepack game design contests, similar to the GoodPortsmanship
>> contest or the previous contests held by the piecepack community.
>> Just
>> as with the piecepack contests, the winner of the contest becomes the
>> judge of the next one. The object is to gain the most prestige points
>> by designing high-scoring games and entering them in contests.
>>
>> Each piecepack tile has a specific meaning in Tile 13 and
>> represents a
>> particular ludeme, or aspect of a game (for example, a set of
>> components, a mechanic, or a theme). The designers (players competing
>> in the current contest) create games by pulling together ludemes that
>> they hope will closely match the Judge's expectations (the tiles
>> played by the Judge).
>>
>> The theme announcement for the seventh real-life public piecepack
>> contest, GoodPortsmanship, reads, "In the spirit of free and open
>> source software and culture, every entry must be a translation, or
>> `port', of an existing game to the piecepack." This game ports the
>> metagame of the piecepack contests to the piecepack itself. It is a
>> non-competing entry in GoodPortsmanship because the author is the
>> judge of that contest.
>
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