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Random piecepack quote of the moment:

"You know I stole the name ['Wand of Odin' from game designer Jim Doherty], right?

Seemed fair, I'm still looking for my pants." --Ed Thorn,

piecepack wiki

Welcome to the piecepack wiki! This is a place where the community can work on game rules and exchange reviews in a collaborative space. Every page on the site is editable by everyone. Read below to find out more about MoinMoin the software running this site.

Here are some starting points.

Piecepack Info

All AboutPiecepack and more.
Resources -- FAQs, articles and other useful stuff
A list of PiecepackExpansions

The Games

Games -- All piecepack games with pages on the wiki
TaxonomyOfPiecepackGames -- a categorised list of piecepack games
GameMechanics -- a classification of the games by the game mechanic or feature used.
RequiredEquipment -- discover which games you can play with the components you have.
NumberOfPlayers -- discover which games you can play with a given number of players.
TimeToPlay -- discover which games can be played in a given time slot.
SortByDate -- a list of games sorted by the date of their latest version
GenericAbstracts -- preexisting abstract games that can be played with the piecepack
CompetitionWinners -- the winning games from the game design contests
RecommendedGames -- the best games as recommended by the piecepack mailing list
NotRecommendedGames -- games people may have not enjoyed, for one reason or another
Games needing playtesting -- games that are labeled in need of testing and further refinement
GamesListedAtBGG -- All the games that have a link to their BGG pages in the form: "BGG Page:"

Random piecepack game of the moment

ThePiecePackPokerPartyParade

Competitions

Competitions -- piecepack community game design contests
CompetitionWinners -- the winning games from the game design contests

The Community

All piecepack game Designers with pages on the wiki
Vendors who sell piecepack and piecepack related stuff
PiecepackArt: piecepack-related arts and crafts projects

Wiki Info

RecentChanges: see where people are currently working
HelpForBeginners: to get you going
WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing
FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

Current News!

First piecepack Review Contest announced

February 20, 2008: JorgeArroyo, has decided to organize a contest to promote the creation of reviews for piecepack games that have no feedback. All the details are at this BGG thread: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/2096186 Everyone is encouraged to participate, although a BGG account is required, to post the reviews there.

Seventh Design Contest: GoodPortsmanship: Results announced!

18 March 2007: Ron Hale-Evans, the judge of the judge of the seventh public game design contest, has announced the winner. There were 10 competing entries and four non-competing entries in the contest. Every entry had to be a translation, or "port", of an existing game to the piecepack. GaryPressler was the winner with his game TheColonistsOfNatick, which is a port of The Settlers of Catan Card Game. The runners-up were MichaelSchoessow and StephenSchoessow with their game ShoppingMall, which is a port of MarraCash. See the GoodPortsmanship contest page for details.

Seventh Design Contest: GoodPortsmanship: Rules announced!

3 September 2006: Ron Hale-Evans, the judge of the seventh contest, has announced the rules. Every entry must be a translation, or "port", of an existing game to the piecepack. See the GoodPortsmanship contest page for details.

MesomorphGamesContest1: Results announced!

9 August 2006: DaveBoyle, the judge of this privately-sponsored design competition, has announced the winner. Click here for the details. There were 17 entries. Ron Hale-Evans was the winner with his game PiecepackLetterbox. The contest was intended to spur authors to incorporate the unique aspects of the FourSeasonsExpansion and PlayingCardsExpansion by MesomorphGames into piecepack game designs. All submissions had to use one of the expansions as an integral part of the theme or mechanics of the game.

piecepack Games go over 160

With 130 games on the BigBoard at the official piecepack website, 17 entries in the recent MesomorphGames contest and over 20 games in the piecepack Yahoo Groups mailing list rulesets-in-progress file section, there are now more than 160 games for the piecepack either completed or in playtest. And that doesn't even count the GenericAbstracts. Congratulations and thanks to all the game designers that made this possible in the little over 4 years since the first release of the piecepack.

Board Game Internet Awards Nominee 2006 for HangingGardens by James Kyle

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