User:Sehrgut

My Games

• Homejinks
• Der Marsigelwettkampf

Other People's Games I Curated Here

• Martian 8-Ball

Pink Hijinks Games

• 2-handed Treehouse
• Pink Hijinks
• 3x3 Rotationary link
• Quick IceSickle link
• With stash tube, Drip and Moonshot link
• A colourless Homeworlds variant, still in development link

My Design Principles for Games with Icehouse Pieces

n.b.: This is very much a work in progress, and is my personal thoughts on what makes a "good" Icehouse game without violating the theme, aesthetic, and abstraction of the pieces. However, I believe that unless you have a Really Good Reason (tm), keeping the following rules will help you create games that leverage, rather than fight, the Icehouse Piece game system. You wouldn't design a card game where a three stacked on an eight behaved as one card with abilities unrelated to either of its constituent cards: in the same way, using consistent principles when designing games using Icehouse Pieces allow the games to share a common bond.

General

• Different piece types should be differentiated by size alone.
  • Obviously, some very good games (such as Homeworlds) violate this rule.
• Colour should indicate relationship, not symbolise role.
  • Indicate controller, owner, territorial relationship (see below), or nothing.
  • Again, Homeworlds demonstrates this can be violated thoughtfully.

Martian Coasters

• If you use multiple Martian Coasters, board manipulation should be part of the game.
• Coaster colour should be related to piece colour.
  • Controller or owner
  • Friendly or unfriendly territory

Chessboard Sections

• If you use chessboard wedges, the game should be playable with two to six players.
• Establish control by location rather than colour.

Combining Pieces

• Stack composition should be manipulable.
  • e.g. Using "special stacks" as physical symbols for standard chess pieces (which cannot be altered during play) would violate this principle.
• Stacks that move together should have their behavior defined in relation to the behavior of one or more of their constituent pieces.
  • Stacks should always remain associations of independent pieces, and not entirely new pieces with their own rules and behavior.
  • e.g. If a pawn moves one space orthogonally and a drone moves one space diagonally, a stack of one pawn on one drone should not perform a knight's move.

Ideas

• Colour precedence to indicate turn-taking
  • Rainbow: Red -> Yellow -> Green -> Blue
  • What for xeno?
  • Only valid where pieces are controlled by colour.