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Re: [piecepack] Giant piecepacks

Good idea :)
What materials would you use to build it? For the coins box cardboard might me ok, but the tiles would neet to be more resistant (You want to be able to walk on the board for some games). Maybe the vinyl used for street signs would be ok, but that may be too expensive... Or wood... Or maybe that foamy plastic that comes in big squares and is used to cover the floor and make it softer (for martial arts, or gym classes). That could work! 

-Jorge

On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Ron Hale-Evans wrote:


Hey, the Icehouse folks build giant Icehouse sets to play with, right?

http://icehousegames.org/wiki/?title=Giant_pieces

Why not giant piecepacks?

Let's assume we want to build them to the same scale in case we want
to play a giant game of Alien City or something. Giant Icehouse pieces
are 8x. The Piecepack Anatomy page
<http://www.piecepack.org/Anatomy.html> reads,

"As a point of reference, (not a requirement), the Mesomorph piecepack
pieces are the following dimensions: tiles are 2" x 2" x 1/4", coins
are 3/4" diameter x 1/8", dice are 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/2", and pawns are
5/8" diameter x 1-1/8" tall."

That means a Giant Piecepack would have the following dimensions:

Tiles: 16" x 16" x 2"
Coins: 6" x 1"
Dice: 4" x 4" x 4"
Pawns: 5" diam x 9" tall

I'm planning to attend Penguicon <http://penguicon.org/> in April.
Clark, do you think one of these sets would interest other attendees?

Ron

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