[Icehouse] IGDC Winter 2008 is ready for announcement tomorrow!

[Jorge Arroyo]

I think it makes sense, although relaxing the requirement to 1 or 2 sets
wouldn't change things that much and would stop designers artificially
modifying their rules for the 2HOUSE requirement...

-Jorge

On 11/5/07, David Artman <david at davidartman.com> wrote:
>
> OK, here's an interesting additional point about the "2HOUSE"
> restriction on the Winter 2008 IGDC:
>
> I was making a game in which I "required" black versus white--that means
> two sets, Rainbow and Xeno, right? It qualifies for the IGDC, right?
>
> Wrong.
>
> Nothing about my new game's rules *actually* required black versus
> white--it could be red versus blue or any other color versus any other
> color, so long as you have two dice which are different colors and so
> long as you assign each die color to a player color. (I have since been
> noodling with ways to employ more pieces, so that the basic game notion
> can be used while also requiring more than 15 pyramids to setup.)
>
> SO... truly arbitrary color assignments which try to "force" a two-set
> setup--but which do not actually require two sets, if one chooses other
> arbitrary colors--will not qualify for the "2HOUSE" requirement for the
> Winter 2008 IGDC. Color assignments which are critical to play (ex: the
> additive properties of, say, cyan and yellow) *will* qualify because one
> *must* use two sets to get *requisite* colors without which the game
> becomes unplayable.
>
> Make sense? Somebody got a problem with that assessment?
> David
>
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