Others favor the four-player version.Ī number of Looney Labs pyramid playing pieces will be required. Looney's favorite is the two-player version. Players build their interstellar empires using green ship-builder starships, blue ship-converter starships, yellow transport/explorer starships, and red combat starships. Looney's analysis is here, where he notes that Homeworlds is the true "space chess." And the original Icehouse game rules are equally futuristic.īut my personal favorite Icehouse game is "Homeworlds." It is a quick playing game of interstellar conquest. They would not look out of place in any SF setting. The pieces have an admirable Euclidean futuristic feel to them. They can be used to play many different games. Andrew founded Looney Labs which manufactures and sells icehouse pyramid playing pieces. John Cooper invented rules so one could actually play the game. In it, people have become obsessed with playing a game called "Icehouse" using pyramid shaped playing pieces. Other westernized versions include Sorry! and Ludo )īack in the late 1980's, award winning game designer Andrew Looney wrote a science fiction novel called The Empty City.
It is a westernized version of Pachisi, the national game of India. (ed note: For all you young whipper-snappers, the boardgame Parcheesi has a reputation for being a dull boring game generally found covered in dust and cobwebs in the closet of your elderly aunt. You could lose that privilege in several degrees you could be restricted to camp … or you could be restricted to your own company street, which meant that you couldn't go to the library nor to what was misleadingly called the "recreation" tent (mostly some Parcheesi sets and similar wild excitements) … or you could be under close restriction, required to stay in your tent when your presence was not required elsewhere. Nevertheless, liberty, even at Camp Currie, was no mean privilege sometimes it can be very important indeed to be able to go so far away that you can't see a tent, a sergeant, nor even the ugly faces of your best friends among the boots … not have to be on the bounce about anything, have time to take out your soul and look at it.
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