[Icehouse] My thoughts/feedback for the contest entries.

[Jorge Arroyo]

Well. This was exactly what we discussed back then before the contest. It
was determined that a game that could be played using two colors per side
would be considered 1HOUSE and would be rejected from the contest. I did
disagree on rejecting those games from the contest (I'd rather let judges
rank games taking how well they adhered to the requirements into account)
although finally it turns out there were no rejections...

Anyway, the fact is that two players can play this game with 1 set. Two
colors per side is not that bad as you can use dark (blue+black) vs. light
(Yellow+Green). I wouldn't play this way because I have a complete set, but
for someone that just bought their first set, I can't see how using two
colors per side would stop them from playing the game...

On hindsight, I may have been a bit harsh, and I do think I'd enjoy
WreckTangle more than Chicken Run and Timelock... but well, In this case I
don't think it would have made that much difference overall...

-Jorge


On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:12 AM, Doug Orleans <dougorleans at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jorge Arroyo writes:
>  > * WreckTangle (4th)
>  >
>  > This is one of the games I didn't get to play. Reading the rules I
> thought
>  > the game was interesting (and I intend to play it). I didn't rank it
> higher
>  > because it was one of the games that was really a 1HOUSE game (In this
> case,
>  > when played as a 2-player).
>
> I don't think WreckTangle is really a 1HOUSE game.  It's true that
> with two players you only need 12 pyramids total, but having each
> player control two colors is annoying enough that I'd rather always
> play with two sets.  And of course you need two sets for more than two
> players.
>
> --dougorleans at gmail.com
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