■ 🕑 1. Gipf Project abstract strategy games │ Collection of 2 player abstract strategy games here, a total of 6 │ games: https://www.gipf.com/project_gipf/index.html │ │ They're notable because they are all very easy to pick up and play, │ difficult to master, 0 probability / 100% skill, highly psychological │ kinds of games. Many have won many awards (including "mensa select"!) │ and they can all be freely played online. │ │ If anyone would like to try playing together, I think the flagship │ game "gipf" is a good place to start -- there's a description on the │ rules here: https://www.gipf.com/gipf/index.html │ │ https://BoardSpace.net seems to be a good way to play these games │ online. They allow guest members. My username is jerky and I am │ open for games! │ │ Incidentally boardspace has a big collection of high quality abstract │ strategy games, see index: https://boardspace.net/english/logon-page.html │ │ │ ├─■ 🕑 2. │ played a round with phatty tonight on Boardspace and hot damn! │ that game GIPF's got gears turning in the deeps of my mind │ very simple premise but things change FAST │ │ now that .... is a game...! │ ├─■ 🕑 3. │ Successful round of GIPF last night with PhatCat. │ Played ZERTZ today with waifu. Crazy fun. │ │ I'm planning on DIYing some of the Gipf project games because the │ games are very simple but would end up being at least $50 a pop if I │ wanted to import them to Indonesia. Based on this charming story, I │ think the game dev would approve: │ http://krisburm.be/en/extracts#checkers │ │ My "bright idea" is to use plastic bottle caps as pieces. I already │ have 18 black bottle caps and 18 of various colors to serve as a base │ set for Gipf. Turn all the bottle caps upside down and add another, │ now there's a Zertz set. (just add marbles or other tokens) │ │ Manufacturing a Yinsh set would take a bit more work but I got ideas. │ too bad I don't know anyone locally with a 3D printer because that could │ produce some really solid pieces but DIY with random odds and ends can add │ a lot of character to games. Googling (gipf project game) + diy shows a lot │ of crafty ingenuity. │ │ │ ├─■ 🕑 4. │ More brilliant games with phatty tonight! 2 rounds of Gipf and 1 of │ Zertz. │ │ Wiki article underway... https://wiki.gikopoi.com/w/GipfProject │ ├─■ 🕑 5. │ Lots of games between Phatty, Archy, and hjiu tonight. │ Phatty and Arch both tasted defeat to the new player. │ The addiction to GIPF is spreading like a disease. │ ├─■ 🕑 6. │ Message removed │ ├─■ 🕑 7. │ Message removed │ ├─■ 🕑 8. │ Message removed │ ├─■ 🕑 9. │ Message removed │ ├─■ 🕑 10. │ Message removed │ ├─■ 🕑 11. │ Message removed │ ├─■ 🕑 12. │ Message removed │ └─■ 🕑 13. Message removed