Every once in a while, I try to design a board game. The first was a circular game where the whole idea was to land on spots to collect cards of a desired collection. Navigation around the board was tricky due to side trips not being well thought…
Continue readingI started work on a macOS version of the Linkage program. It’s going to be years before it’s done but it’s also going to be an interesting project. I opted to use the native tools and languages to make my C.V. so filled with programming languages and operating…
Continue readingFour of us in the NTTTBGM played Twilight Imperium yesterday. It was a marathon for sure. We started at noon reading rules and watching a video. The rules seemed fairly clear and by 3:15 PM when our fourth player showed up, we had learned how to play and…
Continue readingA few days ago, I went to the events.unr.edu website and entered information for the UNR Puzzle Hunt self-guided tour. I listed it as “daily” for as many years as they would accept. I entered the link to http://www.unrpuzzlehunt.com and then submitted it. A few days later, I…
Continue readingThe North Tahoe Table Top Board Game Meetup had another game day yesterday. We meet twice a week so it wasn’t an unusual event! We played Lords of Waterdeep with all expansions with six people. I don’t know why we torture ourselves by playing games with more than…
Continue readingA long time ago, I participated in the Puzzle Pursuit in San Diego, CA. It was a charity event that had about 20 teams of 4 people solving puzzles that were largely based on the surrounding area. There are links on this blog to the records of that…
Continue readingThe issue of public vs. private information in board games is an interesting one. If you have every played a board game of any complexity, you have dealt with the issue in some way. Most people ignore it completely or deal with it subconsciously or accidentally. Private information…
Continue readingI’m working on simulating the Assur Triad using an iterative algorithm. Click here for an older post about the problem I’m trying to solve. The algorithm essentially treats two of the three “legs” of the triad as a 4-bar mechanism and simulates it as one of the legs…
Continue readingSorry but the open-source thing didn’t prove useful. The one person who wanted to port the software to QT gave up long ago. After seeing info about the Linkage software on other sites that don’t link back to me or my site, I’m a bit concerned that someone…
Continue readingI’m in the process if adding a new Hint feature to the Linkage program. When I was designing a mechanism recently, I had to do a series of adjustments in order to find the pivot point of a link based on two points that an end of that…
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