Logger and Four Color Cards (四色牌)
Posted: 21 May 2016, 10:40
Since yesterday, BGA is happy to host two new games from the public domain:
Four Color Cards (四色牌 in Chinese) is a traditional Chinese game with a very distinctive set of narrow 4 colored cards wearing symbols derived from Xiangqi, the Chinese chess game (General, Advisor, Soldier and so on). To make the game easily accessible to Western players as well as Eastern players, both the traditional Chinese ideograms and Western symbols have been included for the cards (you can switch to your favorite set through an in game preference).
It's always interesting to discover a traditional game whose mechanics have gone through the filter of the years, especially when it's coming from a different culture. In Four Color Cards, each set of one color is an army and you'll try to meld the best combinations of cards from your hand with the last drawn or discarded card. Everyone decides at the same time what he wants to do with this card, and the strategist with the best meld (and position in case of a conflict) gets it! Waiting for the right card is key, but at some point you'll have to make your move or get left behind and face harder choices down the road...
As often with traditional games, there is not a unique set of rules, but instead a lot of regional variations revolving arount the same core. The BGA implementation uses one of the most widely played rule in Taiwan; please make sure to read the gamehelp to get acquainted with the correct rules
Four Color Cards has been developed using BGA Studio by xNedKx. A lot of thanks to him for allowing everyone to discover this game online!
Logger is a game created by Erik Dresner for playing with the Icehouse pieces. If you get stressed sometimes by modern life and ever dreamt of downshifting to a lumberjack job in the northern forests of Canada, this game is for you! But don't be deceived by its apparent simplicity, things can get pretty heated up between loggers competing for the largest wood batch!
In Logger, you'll plant and chop trees. Easy? Well, of course first you'll have to wait for trees to grow. And those trees must be special, since they will need your attention to grow: only the trees in the line of sight of a logger (line or column) will grow, and mature trees will disperse seeds all around. Then when a tree is mature, it can be chopped for wood... if it's not protected by some protest, as some loggers are not above suggesting some environmentally inclined people to protest the cutting of trees... when that will hinder their opponents!
Thanks a lot to Erik Dresner for creating this nice game, and to marcgenesis who did a great job developing this game on BGA Studio! Thanks to them both, we'll get more of the wood we need for our real world board game pieces
We enjoy the opportunity to release some less known games from time to time, and hope that you'll have fun discovering them!
Four Color Cards (四色牌 in Chinese) is a traditional Chinese game with a very distinctive set of narrow 4 colored cards wearing symbols derived from Xiangqi, the Chinese chess game (General, Advisor, Soldier and so on). To make the game easily accessible to Western players as well as Eastern players, both the traditional Chinese ideograms and Western symbols have been included for the cards (you can switch to your favorite set through an in game preference).
It's always interesting to discover a traditional game whose mechanics have gone through the filter of the years, especially when it's coming from a different culture. In Four Color Cards, each set of one color is an army and you'll try to meld the best combinations of cards from your hand with the last drawn or discarded card. Everyone decides at the same time what he wants to do with this card, and the strategist with the best meld (and position in case of a conflict) gets it! Waiting for the right card is key, but at some point you'll have to make your move or get left behind and face harder choices down the road...
As often with traditional games, there is not a unique set of rules, but instead a lot of regional variations revolving arount the same core. The BGA implementation uses one of the most widely played rule in Taiwan; please make sure to read the gamehelp to get acquainted with the correct rules
Four Color Cards has been developed using BGA Studio by xNedKx. A lot of thanks to him for allowing everyone to discover this game online!
Logger is a game created by Erik Dresner for playing with the Icehouse pieces. If you get stressed sometimes by modern life and ever dreamt of downshifting to a lumberjack job in the northern forests of Canada, this game is for you! But don't be deceived by its apparent simplicity, things can get pretty heated up between loggers competing for the largest wood batch!
In Logger, you'll plant and chop trees. Easy? Well, of course first you'll have to wait for trees to grow. And those trees must be special, since they will need your attention to grow: only the trees in the line of sight of a logger (line or column) will grow, and mature trees will disperse seeds all around. Then when a tree is mature, it can be chopped for wood... if it's not protected by some protest, as some loggers are not above suggesting some environmentally inclined people to protest the cutting of trees... when that will hinder their opponents!
Thanks a lot to Erik Dresner for creating this nice game, and to marcgenesis who did a great job developing this game on BGA Studio! Thanks to them both, we'll get more of the wood we need for our real world board game pieces
We enjoy the opportunity to release some less known games from time to time, and hope that you'll have fun discovering them!