tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post2175052290761760814..comments2024-03-27T03:07:51.895+00:00Comments on Alone in the Labyrinth: The Dusk Realm: Procedurally Generated Parallel World, more thoughtsJoeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11685436746460917538noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-31980818942874432322020-12-27T00:26:40.246+00:002020-12-27T00:26:40.246+00:00I think any game will have this issue; it might be...I think any game will have this issue; it might be more about the flavor of the activity e.g. if it somehow involved tea leaves, bones, reading entrails, etc. (maybe not literally though...). Anyway, for all I know chess is older than those things, but I think in my head, those seem older. Even if it's checkers instead of chess, but you do it with little stones, or something like that. <br /><br />In any case, as I said before, I actually think the anachronistic feeling of it makes it more interesting to me, especially since it's in this psychedelic space anyway, but if that's not what you're going for then that's not what you're going for.maxcan7https://www.blogger.com/profile/12504030224075149157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-20159151060487453392020-12-26T23:22:45.273+00:002020-12-26T23:22:45.273+00:00I am now considering the board game Othello. Or dr...I am now considering the board game Othello. Or drafts.<br />Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-73150800469648133952020-12-26T23:20:24.866+00:002020-12-26T23:20:24.866+00:00Thank you and you too Kyana, always a pleasure to ...Thank you and you too Kyana, always a pleasure to see you here.<br /><br />Swapping out or promoting (or indeed demoting) pieces is a good addition to the meta-game but I think I might put the chess addition on to the backburner. I think maxcan7 makes a great point: despite its ancient origins, it has a lot of cultural baggage that associates it with the modern era, which might be jarring in a proto-neolithic game. Not sure about Go now, for similar reasons. Also Go doesn't have differentiation of piece types.<br />Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-33467316683653079522020-12-26T23:16:07.078+00:002020-12-26T23:16:07.078+00:00I'm glad you made this point because while the...I'm glad you made this point because while the chessboard is meant to be a meta-element in its going to throw a lot of people into another frame of reference. Someone on the OSR discord (Beeptest I think, I'll check later) suggested GO because the pieces are more abstracted and the gameplay is more fluid but I'm even worse at go than I am at chess. I think the idea of having a parallel but separate game based on a grid is going to form a big part of where this goes but the chess idea might have too much baggage.Sofinho - Alone in the Labyrinthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13483910003385026924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-27715638560034813532020-12-25T15:39:08.611+00:002020-12-25T15:39:08.611+00:00This is a really cool development from the last po...This is a really cool development from the last post. I'm intrigued by the DUSK Realm, and this chess idea. I know this is a pre-history setting, and if anything chess should be more evocative of Wonderland or Ynn, but for some reason this whole thing keeps feeling very 20th century, like in my head I see The Black Lodge and the weird places in Invisibles (it's been too long since I've read it to remember the particulars...). I guess there's a timelessness to psychedelia and primal places that just makes it inevitably anachronistic, if done well.maxcan7https://www.blogger.com/profile/12504030224075149157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380657762788578445.post-88084798730066798862020-12-25T14:22:24.675+00:002020-12-25T14:22:24.675+00:00I wish you nice holidays and good new year.
As fo...I wish you nice holidays and good new year.<br /><br />As for chess, did you consider giving players non-standard moving figures as boons?Kyanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12992025061183651850noreply@blogger.com