We are happy today to present you with not just one, but two abstract games involving hexagonal pieces! Circle of Life, a game from Nick Bentley, and Tock, a classic from the public domain, are now available online on Board Game Arena. Play Circle of Life now! Those of you who played Blooms, a sleek and deep abstract reminiscent of Go, will immediately recognise the Zen aesthetics and taste for a minimalistic but efficient rule set from Nick Bentley. In Circle of Life, on your turn you have to set one stone of your colour on the board. Then if that stone creates a species pattern that is in contact with one of your opponent species following it immediately in the food chain (which is displayed as a circle around the board), the other species is immediately devoured! You win either by eating 20 of your opponent's stones, or if you can't play any more (which means that you managed to fill up the whole ecosystem with your species). Really simple, yes? But so many choices and possibilities! A big thank you to the game designer Nick Bentley (El Poopo), and to the software developer Adam Novotny (A-dam) for bringing this brand new game to the BGA community! Play Tock now! Tock is a classic game that is believed to have originated with the early settlers of Quebec, Canada. It is similar to Ludo, but no dice here! You'll get cards, and move your tokens around the board by choosing which card to spend. This makes the game much less luck based and much more challenging and interesting. The different cards allow for distinct special functions beyond just moving forward, and you'll have to make the best out of each new hand you are dealt in order to be the first to circle the board with all your tokens and win the race. And for some extra challenge, you can even play in teams! For this game, our thanks go to the software developer Jean Portemer (Woodruff) who after Innovation and French Tarot, got interested in Tock and created an adaptation using BGA studio to allow everyone to enjoy it online!
Krog življenja in tock
Z veseljem vam danes predstavljamo ne samo eno, ampak dve abstraktni igri, ki vključujeta šestkotne koščke!
Circle of Life, igra Nicka Bentleyja in Tocka, klasika iz javne domene, sta zdaj na spletu na voljo na Board Game Arena.
Igrajte Circle of Life zdaj!
Tisti od vas, ki so igrali Blooms, elegantno in globoko abstraktno, ki spominja na Go, bodo takoj prepoznali zeno estetiko in okus po minimalističnem, a učinkovitem pravilu, ki ga je postavil Nick Bentley.
V krogu življenja morate na deski postaviti en kamen vaše barve.
Potem, če ta kamen ustvari vzorec vrst, ki je v stiku z eno od nasprotnih vrst, ki mu sledi takoj v prehranski verigi (ki je prikazana kot krog okoli deske), se druga vrsta takoj požre!
Zmagate bodisi tako, da pojeste 20 nasprotnikovih kamnov ali če ne morete več igrati (kar pomeni, da ste s svojimi vrstami uspeli napolniti celoten ekosistem).
Res preprosto, kajne?
Toda toliko izbire in možnosti!
Velika hvala oblikovalcu iger Nicku Bentleyju ( El Poopo ) in razvijalcu programske opreme Adamu Novotnyju ( A-dam ), ker je to novo igro prinesel skupnosti BGA!
Predvajaj Tock zdaj!
Tock je klasična igra, za katero se verjame, da izvira iz zgodnjih naseljencev Quebeca v Kanadi.
Podobno je z Ludo, vendar tukaj ni kock!
Dobili boste kartice in svoje žetone premikali po plošči, tako da izberete, katero kartico boste porabili.
Zaradi tega je igra veliko manj sreče in veliko bolj zahtevna in zanimiva.
Različne kartice omogočajo različne posebne funkcije, ki ne presegajo samo premika naprej, in iz vsake nove roke, ki jo imate, boste morali najbolje izkoristiti, da boste prvi obkrožili tablo z vsemi žetoni in zmagali v dirki.
In za dodaten izziv lahko celo igrate v ekipah!
Za to igro gre zahvala razvijalcu programske opreme Jean Portemerju ( Woodruff ), ki se je po inovacijah in francoskem Tarotu začel zanimati za Tock in ustvaril prilagoditev s programom BGA studio, da bi lahko vsi uživali v spletu!