Re: [piecepack] Re: some ideas about the backs of tiles

["Daniel Ajoy" <da.ajoy@...>]

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Hi Daniel (and Jessica),

Apparently my comment on adding hex-lines to tiles was not approved for the list.

Besides the design I attached a picture of another design I was toying with was:

1) Four diagonal lines with one line special (i.e. different color or perhaps two lines) which marks special corner and directionality for tile laying
2) Put suit symbol in one of six random places (sort of like a hexpack tile)

This would still be information-set compatible with normal piecepack games but would look a little less like a normal piecepack.

Best,

Trevor

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Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 14:54:52 -0700
Subject: Re: [piecepack] Re: some ideas about the backs of tiles
Hi Daniel,

You pointed out such a design idea on this list back in 2011 (explicitly inspired by the tiles of Beehive: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/786115/beehive).  Such a design is actually one of several different new piecepack tweaked designs I've been slowly writing R code to generate pdfs of in a bunch of different suit and color schemes.  Will probably take me a year or so to finalize and release the actual pdfs (I don't have much free time for the foreseeable future and creating a custom font so that all my unicode symbols are of a consistent size and my piecepacks look nice is kind of a slow jog).

My plan was to add diagonal lines on both the front and the back running from the quarters of the edges.  I was also going to add four orthogonal lines going through the center (blanking them out in the center where the rank is) with one of the one facing north being colored differently from the others.  Then I was going to put the suit values in one of eight places [i.e. the corners but either shifted right or left a bit).  This would allow if building a hex board orienting all the pieces in the same way (i.e. using the specially colored orthogonal line) you'd then you could have a piecepack tiles with random hex directions on the faces (the rank symbols) with it still not being hard to see a special corner.  In my example a suit symbol at 3 or 5 o'clock would point to the hex right, 8 or 10 o'clock would point to the hex left, 1 o'clock would point hex top-right, 11 o''clock would point hex top-left, etc.

Really quick hand-drawn example:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rj4vakco4k0z5qy/2017-09-17%2014.38.14%20HDR.jpg?dl=0

Best,

Trevor

p.s. This is probably my third favorite piecepack design tweak I've been playing with, There are other tweaks I've been playing with that facilitate other types of games but I find that throwing all the possible tweaks onto a single pieceepack makes it rather ugly and dysfunctional.  It is impossible to enhance the piecepack for all possible games one could play with one.


On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 12:14 AM, 'Daniel Ajoy' da.ajoy@... [piecepack] <piecepack@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, 16 Sep 2017 15:52:14 -0500, Jessica Eccles jade@... [piecepack] <piecepack@yahoogroups.com> >wrote:
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> > > > Now I'm thinking it could be interesting to have a modular hex pattern on the back of tiles
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