Re: [piecepack] Re: OT: New game system: the Kilodeck, or Deck of a Thousand Cards

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

Hi Steve,

Normally it would mean that, but in this context "dimension" means a
variable that can take on a number of values, such as piecepack suit
(4 values) or piecepack number value (6 values). Thus, a piecepack
pawn is one-dimensional in this sense, because it only has one
attribute, suit. If piecepack pawns were two-dimensional, there would
be 4 x 6 = 24 of them, like tiles or coins.

These dimensions can be treated like spatial dimensions in some ways.
For example, you can lay out piecepack tiles and coins on a Cartesian
grid.

BTW, folks, I got a preview copy of the new Blue Panther piecepack
yesterday (I helped select the games in the rulebook). The way Steve
colors the suits is ingenious and attractive. There must be photos up
somewhere...

Ron

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Steve Jones <bluepantherllc@...> wrote:
> Pawns can be two-sided, although they can't be laid flat - at least the ones we make.  Does that give them two dimensions?
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> --- On Wed, 2/9/11, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
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> From: Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>
> Subject: Re: [piecepack] Re: OT: New game system: the Kilodeck, or Deck of a Thousand Cards
> To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011, 9:05 PM
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> That's an interesting insight and food for thought. Because they're so
> different in form and function, I never thought of piecepack coins and
> tiles as lying along a coins/tiles "dimension".
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> Would the equivalent for dice be dice /sides/? Are pawns distributed
> along a "compactified" dimension, because there are only 4 of them?
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> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:18 PM, imfurry <donkirkby@...> wrote:
>> You could make it more on-topic by replacing one of the dimensions with a tile / coin dimension. You could have four two-dimensional pawns, maybe colour and shape. The coins could have four dimensions on one side and five dimensions on the other, although that might get a bit crowded. Instead of dice, a set of 10 coins, one for each dimension. Either that or tetrahedral or octahedral dice. Kilopack, anyone?
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>> Don
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>> --- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...> wrote:
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>>> Well, sort of on topic too, barring a general game systems mailing list.
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>>> I've created a new card game system called the Kilodeck, or Deck of a
>>> Thousand Cards. I plan to include
>>> a PDF of the 1000-card (really 1024-card) deck as a "feelie" with my
>>> interactive fiction, Symbol Chess.
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