A game system is a group of components that can be used to play multiple games. [1] Games systems can be divided into four major groups, board, card, Dice and low-tech. [1] [2] [3] Icehouse is a game system that falls outside these groups and is consists of pyramid pieces in different colors. [1] [4]
Dice date back to prehistory periods with the earliest recovered dice artifact dating to at least 2100 BC as a part of a Backgammon set. [5], but with no record dice until ?./cn/ The next earliest known game system is the deck of playing cards [2] as they were invented in Imperial China. [6] Dominoes also originated from China as a combination of dice and cards. [2]
James Kyle Droscha created the piecepack specifically to make board game system as he could not find a current concept to his to his liking in 2000 and place the concept into the public domain in later in the year. [7] On April 27, 2017, Nefer Games and its owner-game designer Neal Murthy launched a new game system via Kickstarter called Sedis. [8]
Board game systems include Orion, the piecepack, 8x8 game board, Backgammon, Go Set, Chess Variants, Sly & Realm, New Games in Old Rome, Quintillions, Flying Colors & Colormaze, Lemma, Void and GRYB. [9]
NGiOR game | type | period [9] |
---|---|---|
The Wheel of History | The Founding of Rome | |
The Seven Hills of Rome | ||
Consul | The Republic of Rome | |
Senator | king of hill like | |
Hannibal versus Rome | wargames | The Ascent of Rome |
Proconsul | ||
Caesar | The Roman Revolution | |
Spartacus | ||
Tribunal | negotiation game | Rhetoric and Law |
The Catiline Conspiracy | deduction | |
Imperium | The Roman Emperors | |
The Praetorians | ||
Mercator | auction | Bread and Circuses |
Circus Maximus | race games |
Designers | James Kyle Droscha |
---|---|
Years active | 2000-present |
Genres | Board game |
Players | varies |
The piecepack is a board game system consisting of 24 titles, 24 coins, 4 pawns and 4 diced split into 4 suits: Suns (red), Moons (black), Crowns (green or yellow), and Arms (blue, and typically represented by a Fleur de Lis). Dice, titles and coins are numbered null, ace, two, three, four and five. Titles have four spaces on one side and the suit & number on the other. On the reverse of the coins is the suit while a directional marker joins the value on the other side. Pawns and dice are in the color of the suits. The system was place in the public domain. [1]
For a while regular game design contests were held by the piecepack community. The contest was themed and judged by the winner of the previous contest. [7]
Closed | Design Contests | Entries | Winner | Winning Game [11] |
---|---|---|---|---|
March 2002 | Time Marches On (time based) |
5 | Kidsprout Jumboree | Ron and Marty Hale-Evans |
2002 | Ludic Synergy (combine with another game system) |
7 | Alien City | Michael Schoessow |
January 2003 | Changing Landscapes | 16 | New City | Rob LeGood |
July 2003 | History Repeats Itself | 5 | Pharaoh's Heir | Phillip Lerche |
December 2003 | Solitary Confinement | 18 | Piece Packing Pirates | Clark Rodeffer |
June 2004 | Group Projects | 15 | The "In" Crowd | Jeb Havens and Ian Schreiber |
James Kyle Droscha, HellRail game creator, created the piecepack after liking the appeal of board game system concept but not finding one, including Icehouse, to his liking in 2000. Droscha used playing cards a model taking the suits concept. Square titles were chosen to make the new system flexible, portable and easy to make. To have it as widely available as the playing cards, Droscha place the concept into the public domain in late 2000. [7]
The piecepack design contest was held by Droscha in March 2002, won by Ron and Marty Hale-Evans with KidSprout Jumboree game. By June 2002, two expansion were released for the system, piecepack pyramids and piecepackplus, and Mesomorph Games became the first commercial manufacturer of piecepack. The Hale-Evans then launched the next competition in mid-2002 with the theme of combine with another game system. [9] By March 2004, JCD piecepack, an additional variant, was published created by Jonathan Dietrich. [12]
Card game systems is a whole group of game systems that are variations of the Playing cards. This set can be categorized into the subsets of traditional card decks, multi-suited decks, imaginary & semi-imaginary decks, miscellaneous decks, alphabet decks, and novel card game system. [2]
Multi-suited decks are usual a deck with one or two additional suits added to a standard deck of cards. [2] Early five suited sets include the Minchiate and Tarrocco, which both has a trump suit and added another face card (by keeping the knight and adding the now standard queen) to the regular suits like Tarot. [sd 1] An all original 5 suited deck was found to have printed as early as 1470 in Cologne by Martin Schoen with the suits of Hares, Parrots, Pinks, Roses, and Columbines and having four face cards per suit like the Minchiate. [sd 2] A supposedly 25 card 5 suit set was used to play a predecessor game called “As Nas” in 16th-century Persia. [sd 3] Two additional suited sets arrived in 1938 with a green Eagle suit in the US and in England with a blue Royals suit indicated by a crown, both of which were used to play a Contract bridge variant. [sd 4] The Sextet published by Secobra in 1964 and 1986 consisted of six suits added two blue suits, Wheels and Rackets. The Cinco-Loco set printed by the now defunct USA Playing Card Company (not to be confused with the active United States Playing Card Company) goes to a four color suits plus the Cincos suit with a complex suit symbol that includes the 4 French suits. In current usage is the Stardeck which adds the additional suit of a black & red star. [2]
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Game system ([[|BoardGameGeek|BGG]] link) |
Link | Other link |
---|---|---|
Chess | The Chess Variant Pages | |
New Games in Old Rome | New NGiOR | |
Orion | unofficial website at The Center for Ludic Synergy | |
piecepack |
piecepack |
piecepackplus (specification revision & expansion) |
Sly & Realm | Realm at Nestor Games |
An initial report in December 2011 estimated that Flint city's water system was leaking 30 to 40%, this more than the accepted 15 to 20% loss. Emergency manager Michael Brown started in February 2012 an audit of the water system to determine the difference between the amount of water sold and the amount of water leaving the water plant. [1]
On June 23, 2014, Emergency manager Darnell Earley hired a retired Flint Police Department lieutenant Marcus Mahan as an investigator reporting to the EM for an unspecified special investigation. [2] Mahan was deputized by the Genesee County Sheriff's Office after an amendment to an agreement between the city and county was resolved in July 2014. Being deputized by the Sheriff, lasting until April 2015, was expected to give him independence and avoid claims of conflict of interest. What specifically he was investigation was still under wraps as to not tip off the investigated. [3]
With the filing of six court cases in September 2015 with Mahan as the lead detective, his area of investigation was revealed to be water theft. [4] Warren Southall II, a Flint City employee, was arraigned on Sunday, September 14 on one count of malicious destruction of utility property in Flint District Court. [5] The charge was for illegally turning on a Flint home's water service. Three other cases were for a count of fraudulent use of a public utility under $500; two plead guilt. The final case is Simeon King, 49, charged with one count of resisting and obstructing police officers. [4]
On February 23, 2016, FlintNow, Tom Gore formed professional basketball campaign for Flint, announced Hall of Fame basketball player Magic Johnson was joining that effort by funding educational program even possibly a scholarship like he set up in Lansing. [6]
A game system is a group of components that can be used to play multiple games. [1] Games systems can be divided into four major groups, board, card, Dice and low-tech. [1] [2] [3] Icehouse is a game system that falls outside these groups and is consists of pyramid pieces in different colors. [1] [4]
Dice date back to prehistory periods with the earliest recovered dice artifact dating to at least 2100 BC as a part of a Backgammon set. [5], but with no record dice until ?./cn/ The next earliest known game system is the deck of playing cards [2] as they were invented in Imperial China. [6] Dominoes also originated from China as a combination of dice and cards. [2]
James Kyle Droscha created the piecepack specifically to make board game system as he could not find a current concept to his to his liking in 2000 and place the concept into the public domain in later in the year. [7] On April 27, 2017, Nefer Games and its owner-game designer Neal Murthy launched a new game system via Kickstarter called Sedis. [8]
Board game systems include Orion, the piecepack, 8x8 game board, Backgammon, Go Set, Chess Variants, Sly & Realm, New Games in Old Rome, Quintillions, Flying Colors & Colormaze, Lemma, Void and GRYB. [9]
NGiOR game | type | period [9] |
---|---|---|
The Wheel of History | The Founding of Rome | |
The Seven Hills of Rome | ||
Consul | The Republic of Rome | |
Senator | king of hill like | |
Hannibal versus Rome | wargames | The Ascent of Rome |
Proconsul | ||
Caesar | The Roman Revolution | |
Spartacus | ||
Tribunal | negotiation game | Rhetoric and Law |
The Catiline Conspiracy | deduction | |
Imperium | The Roman Emperors | |
The Praetorians | ||
Mercator | auction | Bread and Circuses |
Circus Maximus | race games |
Designers | James Kyle Droscha |
---|---|
Years active | 2000-present |
Genres | Board game |
Players | varies |
The piecepack is a board game system consisting of 24 titles, 24 coins, 4 pawns and 4 diced split into 4 suits: Suns (red), Moons (black), Crowns (green or yellow), and Arms (blue, and typically represented by a Fleur de Lis). Dice, titles and coins are numbered null, ace, two, three, four and five. Titles have four spaces on one side and the suit & number on the other. On the reverse of the coins is the suit while a directional marker joins the value on the other side. Pawns and dice are in the color of the suits. The system was place in the public domain. [1]
For a while regular game design contests were held by the piecepack community. The contest was themed and judged by the winner of the previous contest. [7]
Closed | Design Contests | Entries | Winner | Winning Game [11] |
---|---|---|---|---|
March 2002 | Time Marches On (time based) |
5 | Kidsprout Jumboree | Ron and Marty Hale-Evans |
2002 | Ludic Synergy (combine with another game system) |
7 | Alien City | Michael Schoessow |
January 2003 | Changing Landscapes | 16 | New City | Rob LeGood |
July 2003 | History Repeats Itself | 5 | Pharaoh's Heir | Phillip Lerche |
December 2003 | Solitary Confinement | 18 | Piece Packing Pirates | Clark Rodeffer |
June 2004 | Group Projects | 15 | The "In" Crowd | Jeb Havens and Ian Schreiber |
James Kyle Droscha, HellRail game creator, created the piecepack after liking the appeal of board game system concept but not finding one, including Icehouse, to his liking in 2000. Droscha used playing cards a model taking the suits concept. Square titles were chosen to make the new system flexible, portable and easy to make. To have it as widely available as the playing cards, Droscha place the concept into the public domain in late 2000. [7]
The piecepack design contest was held by Droscha in March 2002, won by Ron and Marty Hale-Evans with KidSprout Jumboree game. By June 2002, two expansion were released for the system, piecepack pyramids and piecepackplus, and Mesomorph Games became the first commercial manufacturer of piecepack. The Hale-Evans then launched the next competition in mid-2002 with the theme of combine with another game system. [9] By March 2004, JCD piecepack, an additional variant, was published created by Jonathan Dietrich. [12]
Card game systems is a whole group of game systems that are variations of the Playing cards. This set can be categorized into the subsets of traditional card decks, multi-suited decks, imaginary & semi-imaginary decks, miscellaneous decks, alphabet decks, and novel card game system. [2]
Multi-suited decks are usual a deck with one or two additional suits added to a standard deck of cards. [2] Early five suited sets include the Minchiate and Tarrocco, which both has a trump suit and added another face card (by keeping the knight and adding the now standard queen) to the regular suits like Tarot. [sd 1] An all original 5 suited deck was found to have printed as early as 1470 in Cologne by Martin Schoen with the suits of Hares, Parrots, Pinks, Roses, and Columbines and having four face cards per suit like the Minchiate. [sd 2] A supposedly 25 card 5 suit set was used to play a predecessor game called “As Nas” in 16th-century Persia. [sd 3] Two additional suited sets arrived in 1938 with a green Eagle suit in the US and in England with a blue Royals suit indicated by a crown, both of which were used to play a Contract bridge variant. [sd 4] The Sextet published by Secobra in 1964 and 1986 consisted of six suits added two blue suits, Wheels and Rackets. The Cinco-Loco set printed by the now defunct USA Playing Card Company (not to be confused with the active United States Playing Card Company) goes to a four color suits plus the Cincos suit with a complex suit symbol that includes the 4 French suits. In current usage is the Stardeck which adds the additional suit of a black & red star. [2]
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Game system ([[|BoardGameGeek|BGG]] link) |
Link | Other link |
---|---|---|
Chess | The Chess Variant Pages | |
New Games in Old Rome | New NGiOR | |
Orion | unofficial website at The Center for Ludic Synergy | |
piecepack |
piecepack |
piecepackplus (specification revision & expansion) |
Sly & Realm | Realm at Nestor Games |
An initial report in December 2011 estimated that Flint city's water system was leaking 30 to 40%, this more than the accepted 15 to 20% loss. Emergency manager Michael Brown started in February 2012 an audit of the water system to determine the difference between the amount of water sold and the amount of water leaving the water plant. [1]
On June 23, 2014, Emergency manager Darnell Earley hired a retired Flint Police Department lieutenant Marcus Mahan as an investigator reporting to the EM for an unspecified special investigation. [2] Mahan was deputized by the Genesee County Sheriff's Office after an amendment to an agreement between the city and county was resolved in July 2014. Being deputized by the Sheriff, lasting until April 2015, was expected to give him independence and avoid claims of conflict of interest. What specifically he was investigation was still under wraps as to not tip off the investigated. [3]
With the filing of six court cases in September 2015 with Mahan as the lead detective, his area of investigation was revealed to be water theft. [4] Warren Southall II, a Flint City employee, was arraigned on Sunday, September 14 on one count of malicious destruction of utility property in Flint District Court. [5] The charge was for illegally turning on a Flint home's water service. Three other cases were for a count of fraudulent use of a public utility under $500; two plead guilt. The final case is Simeon King, 49, charged with one count of resisting and obstructing police officers. [4]
On February 23, 2016, FlintNow, Tom Gore formed professional basketball campaign for Flint, announced Hall of Fame basketball player Magic Johnson was joining that effort by funding educational program even possibly a scholarship like he set up in Lansing. [6]