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 The first edition looked great, but the new one is easier to make.  https://www.axiomgame.com/ Axiom is an abstract 2-player game from 1988 in which both players have only 8 pieces each, and 6 of those pieces also happen to form the board. There is no hidden information, but the ability to change the playing field is a wild card. Axiom makes your brain melt in special ways, so let's assemble a couple of teams and try to collectively think in 3D. GAME RULES Here's a brief summary of the rules, and some examples in a video I made:  There's a rules gently caress-up in the video, let's consider it my personal variant of the lateral move. Read the rules below for the actual picture. There's also a player's aid card pdf on Axiom website, but it's different in wording to the player's aid card you see in the video   And then there's the rulebook with yet another version.    Bsically:    TECHNICAL For notation, we're keeping the cardinal directions on the mat, and I'm labelling every piece. So, for a move you'll specify the piece you move, the target cube, and the facing/rotation if necessary. Here's the starting position:   (_) means the cube is free to move. This way, GY to G4 North, OZ to G4 West is the complete game I show in the video. CURRENTTEAM GREY: Maigius PMush Perfect SoftNum EasilyConfused TEAM ORANGE: oldskool Big Scary Owl Kangra oscarthewilde Team Grey thread -> https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3923321 Team Orange thread -> https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3923322 SelenicMartian fucked around with this message at 04:40 on May 14, 2020 |
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Turn 1:   GY to O5Turn 2:   OZ to G1Turn 3:   G4 to G5Turn 4:   O6 to G2 dome-UPTurn 5:   GZ to G3Turn 6:   OZ to G5 *check*Turn 7:   G4 to G1 dome-W *check*Turn 8:   O6 to G5Turn 9:   GY to G4, RIP O5Turn 10:   O2 to G6 dome-WTurn 11:   GY to G4E *check*Turn 12:   OZ to G2Turn 13:   GY to O6Turn 14:   O3 to O6 dome-ETurn 15:   GZ to G3S *check*Turn 16:   OY to O2STurn 17:   G4 to O1S dome-UPTurn 18:   OZ to G5Turn 19:   GZ to O1ETurn 20:   OZ to G6 *check*Turn 21:   GY to G2Turn 22:   OZ to G5ETurn 23:   GZ to G3WTurn 24:   OZ to G6Turn 25:   G1 to G3 dome-N-UPTurn 26:   O3 to O1 dome-STurn 27:    G1 to O3U dome-WTurn 28:    OY to G1UTurn 29:   GY to O6WTurn 30:    O2 to O6 dome-WTurn 31:    GZ to G5Turn 32:    OY to O3E RIP G1
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May 11, 2020 18:06
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbTUTNenvCY
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May 11, 2020 21:13
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You don't know the meaning of 'take a breather', do you  .
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May 11, 2020 21:14
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Me trying to figure out how to play this:  Good luck to anyone playing this.
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May 11, 2020 22:37
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I made it nine minutes before I just had to look on boardgamegeek. It's not that I didn't believe you, but I had to check.
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May 11, 2020 23:33
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Sign me up for Team Orange
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I'm not 100% sure I understand this, but I'll sign up for Team Grey.
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May 12, 2020 00:11
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Man this seems super cool, I love weird concepts like these. Wonder why there isn't some sort of video game version or clone, it would be nice to play it online or against AI opponents for people with no friends  I think I'm gonna try this out. I'll be Team Orange.
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May 12, 2020 05:25
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This seems like there are so many ways to lose this easily. I'll throw in for Team Orange. Just to be clear on this rule, diagonal moves must stay in the same plane, while lateral moves may change planes, correct? Meaning all moves a chess queen could make are legal, plus any lateral moves over any number of sides?
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May 12, 2020 06:17
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Oh, yeah, I keep missing that part of the rule  poo poo, do I re-record the video? The game works perfectly with my version, too. I can tell from experience, that the first game will be short and both teams will be one move from winning without seeing it.
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May 12, 2020 06:36
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well, i'm still not sure wtf's going on but i'm definitely interested. Team Orange it is!
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May 12, 2020 10:49
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1 vs 4? We need more balance and then we start, with sign-ups open.
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What the gently caress is this game Edit: gently caress it, Team Grey girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 08:08 on May 13, 2020 |
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May 13, 2020 08:05
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Once you go Grey it's kind of OK?
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OK, let's get started. This will be the observer thread. We'll try 24 hours or less per turn. It could take longer if there's too much confusion. You can still join teams! Team Grey goes there -> https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3923321 Grey has the first turn. Team Orange goes there -> https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3923322 No peeking here after you start. Now, I'll just repeat the starting position... And from here on out this is the neutral zone. Unless someone joins a team really late
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May 13, 2020 19:19
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Turn 1 has arrived. Grey's moving in on Orange turf.
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I couldn't really wrap my head around the rules, so I will just watch this until I get it I guess.
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May 13, 2020 21:42
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HardDiskD posted:I couldn't really wrap my head around the rules, so I will just watch this until I get it I guess. Me neither, but I'll join team Grey to even things up.
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Orange defends, brutally.
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That's a pretty commanding move from Orange. They threaten G4 and G5, while Grey can't do something similar on the other side of the board. They'll be pretty stuck if Grey moves G4 though - I recall there's a dome on top face of G1?
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May 14, 2020 13:36
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Say, how does your notation work if a sceptre could move to two different sides of the same cube?
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May 14, 2020 20:52
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Carbon dioxide posted:Say, how does your notation work if a sceptre could move to two different sides of the same cube?
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Now they're thinking in cubes!
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May 15, 2020 12:55
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Grey team thinks they've blocked OZ from moving with the bump, but can't it travel over the bump to the top of O6? Or can you only change planes once in a move?
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biosterous posted:Grey team thinks they've blocked OZ from moving with the bump, but can't it travel over the bump to the top of O6? Or can you only change planes once in a move? Scepters can't pass over domes. They can still move to G5, though, and since G4 is on top of it that isn't a death sentence now.
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Tenebrais posted:They can still move to G5, though, and since G4 is on top of it that isn't a death sentence now. They could move OY to O1 to directly threaten GY. They could take O6 places.
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May 15, 2020 16:52
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They're sneaking round the back.
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May 16, 2020 13:12
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You can't fit a specter in O5N, correct? Also, it feels like grey have put themselves into a corner, figuratively speaking. Space Kablooey fucked around with this message at 14:49 on May 16, 2020 |
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May 16, 2020 14:47
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Has there ever been a case where the two sides kept stacking the cubes until a long tower was formed?
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Mraagvpeine posted:Has there ever been a case where the two sides kept stacking the cubes until a long tower was formed? Grey's covering their rear end
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May 16, 2020 19:51
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OZ's coming back from the corner with a vengeance.
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Grey is arguing Orange can move to G4 if GY-G4(top). Can they? I don't think it would be legal?
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OZ can go to G4 by the proper game rules. Grey can't see that G4 on G1 can block the check from OZ and exposes it to an attack, or that G1 to O3 can do a lot of damage too.
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SelenicMartian posted:OZ can go to G4 by the proper game rules. If there was a sceptre on the top, wouldn't it block OZ -> G4 (east), while G4 (west) is impossible (lateral move without moving over an edge) and G4 (north) and G4 (south) are both diagonal movements over an edge, so also illegal?
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As was made clear in an earlier post, Martian forgot to say in the instruction vid that lateral moves that don't go over an edge are legal.
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Wait, domes don't block movement do they? If not OZ can move to O5E, right?
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HardDiskD posted:Wait, domes don't block movement do they? If not OZ can move to O5E, right? I ... think? Honestly, I can imagine playing this game being equally clueless as my opponent. Suddenly realizing: "Oh, I think you won four turns ago..."
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Yeah, I'm also not 100% certain on the question in one of the threads whether you can capture a cube if there's another cube on top. There seem to be a whole lot of implicit rules in this game that don't become clear until you run into them.
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