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2020-10-22

• 00:33 UTC (diff) BannedContent . . . . RonHaleEvans

2020-09-29

• 22:57 UTC (diff) MakingPiecepacks . . . . JamesVipond – Woodworks Ltd. no longer sells pawn saucers. I also demoted subheads in the section on making a juvenile piecepack.

2020-09-27

• 16:46 UTC (diff) BannedContent . . . . RonHaleEvans – One more for the naughty list

2020-09-19

• 18:18 UTC (diff) BannedContent . . . . RonHaleEvans

2020-09-13

• 19:21 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – New item: Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page
• 19:11 UTC (diff) HomePage . . . . RonHaleEvans – == 13 September 2020 == Because it's hard to playtest the games in the IronPiecepackDesignerContest during the coronavirus, the contest has been postponed. That means there's still time to enter! If you're a piecepack designer and you'd like some ingenious ways to playtest your game despite difficult conditions, see Playing and playtesting during pandemics, and don't forget to add a link to the Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page, where piecepackers will playtest your game for free!
• 19:10 UTC (diff) IronPiecepackDesignerContest . . . . RonHaleEvans – //Meanwhile, for some ingenious ways to playtest your game, see Playing and playtesting during pandemics, and don't forget to add a link on the Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page, where piecepackers will playtest your game for free!//
• 18:53 UTC (diff) HomePage . . . . RonHaleEvans – == 13 September 2020 == Because it's hard to playtest the games in the IronPiecepackDesignerContest during the coronavirus, the contest has been postponed. That means there's still time to enter! If you're a piecepack designer and you'd like some ingenious ways to playtest your game despite difficult conditions, see Playing and playtesting during pandemics, and don't forget to add a link to the Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page, where piecepackers will playtest your game for free!

2020-09-11

• 00:55 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – All headings now have text

2020-09-10

• 23:33 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans
• 17:25 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans
• 02:08 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – The MakingPiecepacks page has many lovely suggestions for do-it-yourself piecepacks, involving wood and acrylic components, printable sticker sheets, laser cutting, polyurethane sealer, and more -- and we suggest you check it out -- but what if you're locked down under quarantine or you just want to playtest your piecepack game //right now//?
• 01:55 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – The MakingPiecepacks page has many lovely suggestions for do-it-yourself piecepacks, involving wood and acrylic components, printable sticker sheets, laser cutting, polyurethane sealer, and more -- and we suggest you check it out -- but what if you're locked down under quarantine or you just want to playtest your piecepack game //right now//?

2020-09-09

• 22:56 UTC (diff) Japan . . . . TrevorLDavis – Add animation of example game (use 3MB grid version in page plus a link to the 73MB rayrender version).
• 05:03 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . TrevorLDavis – {{{>You'll probably need to use a video editor (a technology I'm unfamiliar with) or do a hack like taking a video of you playing/pausing the . . .

2020-09-08

• 22:32 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . TrevorLDavis – {{{ > However, you seem to be saying that writing random setup routines might be unnecessary if we have a setup in mind (probably selected . . .
• 22:32 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . TrevorLDavis – Fix
• 22:31 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . TrevorLDavis – {{{ > However, you seem to be saying that writing random setup routines might be unnecessary if we have a setup in mind (probably selected . . .
• 20:25 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . RonHaleEvans – 1. Desfases sounds too unwieldy, because of the number of moves and submoves in a complete game. 2. ShoppingMall sounds more plausible than I . . .
• 20:24 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . RonHaleEvans – 1. Desfases sounds too unwieldy, because of the number of moves and submoves in a complete game. 2. ShoppingMall sounds more plausible than I . . .
• 05:53 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . TrevorLDavis – # A full game of Desfases is 84 moves (21 turns for each player), each move being 2-3 "submoves" moving a total of 2-9 pieces. Probably not going to . . .
• 01:40 UTC (diff) Comments on IronPiecepackDesignerContest . . . . RonHaleEvans – For the video, perhaps require a link to http://piecepack.net, rather than http://piecepack.org? The latter is apparently offline for good, and . . .
• 00:48 UTC (diff) Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page . . . . RonHaleEvans

2020-09-07

• 23:49 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . RonHaleEvans – Consulted the BigBoard. Other games that are immediately appealing for demo videos include Desfases (which I know you can do, obviously), . . .
• 23:34 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . RonHaleEvans – For #1: I was already thinking of AlienCity, which is one of my all-time favorite games. However, it would be nice to do an all-piecepack game, as . . .
• 21:10 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . TrevorLDavis – For #1 let me know which game(s) you'd be interested in doing. For #2 piecepackr's print-and-play generator already generates configurable . . .
• 19:54 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . RonHaleEvans – #1 and #2: Thanks, Trevor! :) #2: Without going back and checking, I think I recall that one of the printable matchsticks sets came in the form of . . .
• 05:12 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . TrevorLDavis – 1) I'd be happy to do an animation collaboration with you. Not super interested in doing the voice over myself or uploading to Youtube (don't want . . .

2020-09-06

• 23:44 UTC (diff) JcdPiecepack . . . . RonHaleEvans
• 23:41 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – Off to a good start. Feel free to add material.
• 23:40 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – Off to a good start. Feel free to add material.
• 23:39 UTC (diff) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – Off to a good start. Feel free to add material.
• 21:30 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . RonHaleEvans – Also, can I persuade you to upload your rules for your Alquerque variant? Marty and I will post our rules soon. The playtest page for the last . . .
• 21:14 UTC (diff) Gaming during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – delete page
• 21:11 UTC (new) Playing and playtesting during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – Just brainstorming for now. Feel free to add material.
• 21:03 UTC (diff) Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page . . . . RonHaleEvans – Updated games in progress
• 20:59 UTC (diff) Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page . . . . RonHaleEvans – Updated games in progress
• 20:55 UTC (diff) Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page . . . . RonHaleEvans – Updated games in progress
• 20:48 UTC (diff) IronPiecepackDesignerContest . . . . RonHaleEvans – Link to playtest page
• 20:43 UTC (diff) Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page . . . . RonHaleEvans – First draft, based on Jessica's page
• 20:41 UTC (diff) Comments on TrevorLDavis . . . . RonHaleEvans – Trevor, has it occurred to you that you could easily enter the video demo portion of the Iron Piecepack Designer contest if you set up an animation . . .
• 19:56 UTC (diff) Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page . . . . RonHaleEvans – First draft, based on Jessica's page
• 19:53 UTC (new) Iron Piecepack Designer Playtest Page . . . . RonHaleEvans – First draft, based on Jessica's page
• 19:43 UTC (diff) SandBox . . . . RonHaleEvans
• 19:40 UTC (new) Gaming during pandemics . . . . RonHaleEvans – How to play and playtest piecepack games (and others) during the coronavirus
• 19:38 UTC (diff) SandBox . . . . RonHaleEvans
• 19:36 UTC (diff) SandBox . . . . RonHaleEvans
• 19:27 UTC (diff) Desfases . . . . RonHaleEvans – Reorg, including moving animation to the top and uploading rules version 0.8. Updated version number and date.
• 17:53 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . RonHaleEvans – I've uploaded the new rules and reorganized the page somewhat, including moving the animation to the top and avoiding the wall of text effect. I . . .
• 17:46 UTC (diff) Desfases . . . . RonHaleEvans – Reorg, including moving animation to the top and uploading rules version 0.8
• 17:42 UTC (diff) Desfases.pdf . . . . RonHaleEvans – Version 0.8

2020-09-05

• 22:40 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . Ottia – Thanks a lot, Ron! The animation looks fantastic (it is also too fast for me to notice the mistake, anyway I wouldn't have given a hoot if I had . . .
• 18:44 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . RonHaleEvans – Ottia, I received the rules in email and will post them ASAP. I'm glad to see Desfases is getting the Trevor treatment! 😉
• 00:41 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . Ottia – I have sent the corrected rules to Ron. I have also added you to the Acknowledgements "section" - many thanks again.

2020-09-04

• 19:11 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . TrevorLDavis – Thanks for the answers! Glad you enjoyed the animation, sorry I made a mistake in it and didn't have the time to animate a full game.
• 15:32 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . Ottia – Thanks a lot for doing the animation as well. It looks smashing - I really appreciate the effort.
• 15:29 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . Ottia – Thanks for the questions, Trevor! The answers are as follows: 1. Exactly. The top die face's rank simply states the amount of turns left to score. . . .

2020-08-24

• 22:09 UTC (diff) Desfases . . . . TrevorLDavis – Add animation of first six rounds (24 moves) of a game

2020-08-22

• 23:43 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . TrevorLDavis – Revise movement rules question to point out four pawns in the corner case.
• 01:01 UTC (diff) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . RonHaleEvans – That's terrific. Thank you, Trevor. Now people can download those old games again. By the way, there is a way to form a Wayback URL so that the . . .

2020-08-21

• 06:29 UTC (diff) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . TrevorLDavis – All the http://www.piecepack.org links have all been replaced by the suggested global s/r (there were no found https links). The resulting links . . .

2020-08-20

• 01:01 UTC (diff) HomePage . . . . RonHaleEvans – Realized no one was updating the front page photo because I have the keys. Updated the photo the lazy way, with the Wayback Machine
• 00:58 UTC (diff) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . RonHaleEvans – Right. That's a more detailed version of what I was thinking. (I hadn't decided what a good year would be, among other things, but 2016 sounds good, . . .

2020-08-19

• 18:40 UTC (diff) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . TrevorLDavis – I haven't looked into it either. I did just lookup Wayback link generation and I think prepending the {{{http://piecepack.org}}} with something like . . .
• 17:22 UTC (diff) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . RonHaleEvans – Oh, right. I had forgotten this conversation. It seems like the best thing to do is to just turn the piecepack.org links into Wayback Machine . . .
• 16:57 UTC (diff) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . TrevorLDavis – RonHaleEvans, were you planning on uploading the Games that had ambiguous de jure permission for 3rd parties to distribute? I guess the de facto . . .
• 16:31 UTC (diff) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . Anonymous – FYI, this is RonHaleEvans, writing from a new laptop (last message too). I had forgotten what a nuisance the QuestionAsker plugin is. With our . . .
• 16:27 UTC (diff) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . Anonymous – TrevorLDavis, a few months ago, during one of the periods when Piecepack.org was still up, I downloaded all of the game PDFs they hosted. I've been . . .
• 06:54 UTC (new) Comments on PlansOfAction . . . . TrevorLDavis – Are there mistakes in the sample game contained in the ruleset? For example I don't understand the transition from move 9) to 10) at all. . . .
• 06:42 UTC (diff) Comments on Desfases . . . . TrevorLDavis – Some rules questions I have: # Assuming the top die face isn't null the distance the pawn moves doesn't depend at all on the top die face's rank? . . .

2020-08-09

• 16:19 UTC (diff) BigBoard . . . . TrevorLDavis – Rollback to 2020-05-13 14:35 UTC
• 16:19 UTC (diff) BannedContent . . . . TrevorLDavis – Add 'anticancer' and 'hetquenil' to banned URL elements
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