Games in Design Stage Initial Design

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There are 84 games in the Initial Design stage.

Name	Description	Min Players	Max Players	Status	Year Released
Breakthrough	Capture pieces as you move your pyramids across the board.		2	Initial design	2001
Rat Patrol	A precursor to the game Turtler	2	6	Initial design	2001
Triangulation	A war-game with programmed movement	2	4	Initial design	2001
Martian Greenhouse	Solitaire game of breeding different species		1	Initial design	2002
Icebomb Arena		4	5	Initial design	2004
Coup	Take over a small country	3	5	Initial design	2005
Deception	In Deception, players try to get their secret pyramid to the other end of the board while avoiding capture.		2	Initial design	2005
Ice Arena	Ice Arena is a tactical arena combat game.	2	4	Initial design	2005
Ice Ice Baby	An abstract Icehouce set collecting and auction game	2	4	Initial design	2005
IceDuel	A miniatures-oriented, arena duel game with an unusual character creation format.	2	4	Initial design	2005
IceHanoi	A solo game of trying to turn nests into trees		1	Initial design	2005
Iceberg	Guess correctly and be rewarded		2	Initial design	2005
Iceships	An idea, not a game yet		4	Initial Design	2005
King of the Sinking Iceberg	Jump and capture small caps on a shrinking board		2	Initial design	2005
Robot House	Robot House is a tactical arena game inspired by Meatbot Massacre.	2	4	Initial design	2005
Take That!	A short three-in-a-row game where your opponent chooses the piece you have to play		2	Initial design	2005
Ticket to Mars	Mashup of Icehouse with Ticket to Ride	2	5	Initial design	2005
Triforce	In Triforce, players combat for control over a portion of a triangular playing field.	3	6	Initial design	2005
Triluminary	In Triluminary, players battle for influence over the Grey Council.		2	Initial design	2005
Olympus Mons	A chess-like game where captured pieces are worth their pip-value		2	Initial design	2006
ThreeStone	Try to build stacks that match your secret goal stacks.		2	Initial design	2006
Titanice	Be the first to steer your transatlantic liner into an iceberg!	2	4	Initial design	2006
Force Field Factions	An abstract strategy game loosely inspired by Homeworlds and RAMBots		2	Initial design	2007
HamstersOnIce	You're in a hamster ball in a huge ice arena	2	4	Initial design	2007
Ice Derby	Ice Derby is a tactical Destruction derby game.	2	4	Initial design	2007
Ice Soccer	Pyramid Soccer that works like Subbuteo	2	4	Initial design	2007
Icecaster	A two-fisted spell-casting battle for 2 or more players.	2	10	Initial design	2007
MadRobots	A rough initial design	2	8	Initial Design	2007
Martian Colonists	A resource gathering race, vaguely inspired by Settlers of Catan and a set of dice that match the colours of Icehouse pyramids	2	8	Initial design	2007
Martian Trickery	A trick-taking game where you earn pyramids by winning tricks	3	4	Initial design	2007
Penguin Football		2	4	Initial design	2007
Pentachrome	Form chains by color or size to earn points		2	Initial design	2007
Pumpkin	A "first one out of the maze" Halloween game	2	4	Initial design	2007
Rummy Towers	Rummy towers is a rummy game using pyramids instead of tiles or cards.	2	4	Initial design	2007
Shield Bashers	In Shield Bashers, spaceships battle through interaction of hidden shields.	2	6	Initial design	2007
The Sniper	Survive an abduction by outwitting The Sniper		4	Initial design	2007
The Crystal in my Pocket	A collaborative fiction game	3	8	Initial design	2007
CoverFire	A war-game with programmed movement		2	Initial design	2008
DogFight	A war-game with programmed movement		2	Initial design	2008
Martian Pachinko	A Martian pachinko game for two		2	Initial design	2008
Martian Push	2House Game being translated into Treehouse		2	Initial design	2008
Node Wars	The metagame of playing the three (or four) games of the Node Wars trilogy, simultaneously or in sequence.	2	3 or more	Initial design	2008
TrackAngel	Deduce the location of your opponent's secret submarine on a chessboard		2	Initial design	2008
TubeTanks	A war-game with programmed movement		2	Initial design	2008
Accelerator	Scientists compete to get the most particles out of an accelerator	2	4	Initial design	2009
Behind Enemy Lines	Multiplayer war based game	2	4	Initial design	2009
Candy Capture	Earn the most points once all candy pieces are captured		2	Initial design	2009
Capture the Flag	2 or 3 players try to capture an opponent's flag in an ever-shrinking space.	2	3	Initial design	2009
Dash	Be the first to finish.	2	5	Initial design	2009
Dodger	Catch the Fugitive in an ever changing landscape.	2	10	Initial design	2009
The Fast and Ferocious; or, Black Ice	A racing game with multiple tracks and self-placed obstacles.	2	6	Initial design	2009
Game of Princes	The two sons of the king play a racing game to one another’s carpets with help of their servitors		2	Initial design	2009
Hexachess	Chess for 2 to 3 players on a hexagonal board.	2	3	Initial design	2009
Ice Caps			2	Initial design	2009
Ice House Bowling	A game using IceHouse pieces for bowling.	2	100	Initial design	2009
Ice Points	An entirely luck driven card battle over a bank of pyramid points.	5	8	Initial design	2009
Ice Race	Race opponents on a track using traditional and Treehouse dice.	2	4	Initial design	2009
Icehouse Baseball	A baseball simulation.		2	Initial design	2009
Isoku	Like Sudoku, but with pyramids.	1	4	Initial design	2009
Oshugo	A somewhat quick penny-flipping game		2	Initial design	2009
Outgrow	Each player represents a fungal colony, trying to outgrow the other colonies in the limited space available.		2	Initial design	2009
Polymer Chains	Create Big Molecules at Home	2	10	Initial design	2009
Race to the Top	A combination of several non-pyramid games.	3	10	Initial design	2009
Switch House!	A game of stealing and chance.	3	10	Initial design	2009
Topple	Be the last with pieces still standing	3	5	Initial design	2009
Tree House Rush	Around to the finish.	2	4	Initial design	2009
Zoink!	A game of chance by stealing and regaining pieces.	2	6	Initial design	2009
Circuit Connection	A connection game of position where you score points for groups on a board I made		2	Initial design	2010
Elementalist	Use the elements at your disposal and wage epic war against an opponent!		2	Initial design	2010
Nimitz	A multiplayer combinatorial game with a very loose association to the game Nim.	2	6	Initial design	2010
Snowball Fight!	A war game where you try to capture all the pieces.	2	8	Initial design	2010
Spectrum	A "currency" exchange game	2	4	Initial design	2010
Yshuis	An abstract strategy game for two or more players (inspired by the game Y.)	2	6	Initial design	2010
Cryosquare	Dynamic two-player, two-stash connection game played on a chessboard.		2	Initial design	2011
Ice Miners	A 2-player game of underground survival inspired by Settlers of Catan.		2	Initial design	2011
Oi! That's My Phish!	A tile collection game inspired by Hey! That's My Fish.	2	9	Initial design	2011
Pushing Race	A race where you’ll need the roll of an Icehouse die to win, but the same roll could force you to help an opponent	2	4	Initial design	2011
Skyscrapers	A free-form action and dexterity game for lively party fun.	2	12	Initial design	2011
Bridge	A strategy game where you try to connect opposing edges of an 8x8 board.		2	Initial design	2012
Crystal Habit	A game of mineralogy. Create crystal composites of different sizes and composition.	2	5	Initial design	2012
Leech	Capture your opponents' pieces and their score	2	4	Initial design	2012
Vertigo	A solitaire version of Volcano or Mega-Volcano where the goal is to build single color towers		1	Initial design	2012
Wardrobes			2	Initial design	2012
Depict	Can you get your friends to guess the secret word using only pyramids?	2	10	Initial design	2021