Notes on Games
- Exploring game ideas and mechanics
Welcome!
Here we have a (small) assortment of newly-developed games. So far, they are all based on the premise of using standard playing cards to make something interesting and challenging.
| Boulesless - a homebrew game of boules for when you have no boules |
May 2020 1440 words |
can be anything that is even vaguely throwable, ranging from bottle caps to pine cones to footballs to tennis rackets, shoes or twigs. |
| Cardbot Derby |
December 2017 1729 words |
use a standard deck of playing cards to enter a world of more or less out of control cardbots |
| Pouches of Destiny |
June 2017 2479 words |
use a standard deck of playing cards to enter a world of garbage and marsupial desperation |
Inspirations
| Non standard, standard-cards-only games | Lamarckian Poker by CheapAss Games, which comes as part of a set of standard-cards-only games. (boardgamegeek) |
| Multi-layered use of cards | Race For The Galaxy (boardgamegeek) |
| Synergies between cards | Dominion (boardgamegeek) |
| Interesting mechanics | RoboRally (boardgamegeek) Carcassonne (boardgamegeek) |
Other reading
- some US-centric words on game copyright, trademark, patents
- These games are under Creative Commons (see About), BTW. Do please use, copy, and embellish, and let me know.
- the BoardGameGeek site, a comprehensive board game resource.