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Unusual, potential game pieces
I love speculating about future games, and surprisingly I haven't found an old thread talking about game pieces in particular. So I thought we'd talk about what would make a good game piece so that we might be able to identify the beginnings of a future game.
IMO, a good game piece:
Thinking about what fits those criteria, and hasn't yet been used I've come up with a few candidates:
What do you think? Have I missed any good candidates? Are there other criteria for what makes a good gamepiece? Do any of these spark some ideas for game rules? Last edited by nuclearnerd : 27-08-2015 at 16:15. |
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Re: Unusual, potential game pieces
Several years ago someone posted a picture of Dave Lavery holding a ~10 inch long piece of 3" sched 40 PVC pipe, capped at both ends. The thing resembled a giant drug capsule, suitable for medicating a blue whale or some similarly massive fictional creature.
I imagined it half full of pea gravel, to make its center of gravity shift while it is being handled so that manipulation by a robot is more challenging. Last edited by Richard Wallace : 27-08-2015 at 05:53. |
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Re: Unusual, potential game pieces
Traffic cones.
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Re: Unusual, potential game pieces
American footballs
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Re: Unusual, potential game pieces
Another "good game piece" criterium: NOT inflated.
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Re: Unusual, potential game pieces
Bowling Ball. main rule is you can't let it leave the ground.
American (nerf) Football. Heck, a Rugby ball would be fun too. |
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Re: Unusual, potential game pieces
I've always liked the idea of absurdly heavy or light game pieces (i.e. bowling balls or balloons). Really big ones (like 2001's goals) would be cool, as well.
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(Within the limits of sanity, I don't think we're going to be playing Recycle Rush 2 with Fiat 500s) |
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An important but so far thus far overlooked criterion is consistency in how it responds across both batches and time on the field. An object should not handle differently during the final match than the first, nor should they be different for a week 1 event and the Championship. |
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Re: Unusual, potential game pieces
Not to mention the change in balls that occurred at Champs before eliminations. They were not just new, they had a totally different compression characteristic iirc.
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