The 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…
Continue readingI went ahead and released Linkage 3.10. Downloads from the download page will now get the 3.10 version of the software.
Continue readingNo, not “The Game of Life” board game: it sucks! I mean that some of the mechanics of board games are present in real life. For instance, one of the players a few nights ago made what they discovered was a bad industry placement as their first move….
Continue readingNote that this tutorial requires a yet-to-be-released version of the Linkage program. If you really want a copy, I can send you the executable file. But it won’t have a digital signature due to me being lazy and just now taking steps to get a new code signing…
Continue readingI’m adding a “Guideline” feature to the Linkage program. These lines will be added and manipulated just like drawing lines but will always be visible and can’t have more than two points (drawing lines are polylines with multiple segments if desired). The guidelines will be the same color…
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