[Icehouse] What is 2HOUSE?

[Jorge Arroyo]

I'm not going to dissect your posts, David. You quote me, and I still agree
with what I said, because I hope the games really use the 2 sets fully. I
also hope they use the characteristics of the pyramids fully (pips, stacking
and orientation). But I maintain that 2HOUSEness is subjective.

You take the examples to the extreme, but many games (yours included) can be
played with one set by distinguishing different types of game pieces with
different kinds of tokens (pyramids, coins, dice, beads, etc...). I
explained how your game could be played with one set by using coins for the
public in a way that makes a lot of sense. In fact, by your test, if I have
one set, I wouldn't buy a second one just to play it, because as you never
need to stack public pieces on top of family pieces, the game is perfectly
playable.

I still am quite disappointed that you choose to ignore your mistakes time
and time again. That tells me more about you than your long posts, and bear
in mind that I don't have anything against you as I don't really know you
personally, but you don't come off too good when you throw accusations at
the wrong person and don't even acknowledge your mistake. Not to mention
that who you're really accusing (the owner of labsk.org) has done more for
the Loonies than most of us on the list could ever hope to do...

Of course, people have stated their opinions and I accept it, it looks like
we're in the minority and that's ok. I must say you're sounding more
reasonable now, although I'm more with Bryan in how I see the restriction
(and I like what he said about coolness). Let's hope no games have to be
rejected.

Last. For the record, I'll quote Andy's post, because what he really said
was that this:

The restriction I'm most interested in seeing is games for a
> single-Treehouse set. From a biz standpoint, we're very keen on being able
> to rattle off a list of other games the new purchaser can play with a
> Treehouse set and nothing else (except commonly-owned materials).
>
> My second choice would be games that use 2 Treehouse sets (or parts
> thereof). As we pitch people on the system, we look forward to being able
> to say "here are some games you can play when you get your second set,"
> just as we can now say "here's a great trio of games you can play when you
> reach the 3 set level." I could someday imagine a series of other booklets
> like 3HOUSE: 1HOUSE, 2HOUSE, 4HOUSE, etc.
>
>
>
Cheers, and good luck to everyone,

-Jorge
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