want to be real?Favourite fictional games you
want to be real?Favourite fictional games you I recently got a copy of Serpent's reach by C J Cherryh. I read this in around 2003 or so, and intend to read it again before reading more of Cherryh's work, (my lady has read loads of her stuff and highly recommends her). Part of Serpent's reach describes a dice game called Sej played with two six sided dice, and three wands which act like four sided dice, accept that the wands have different faces, a ship, a star, black, and white. Cherryh describes play in an appendix, though the duel you get over Sej in the book tells you all you need to know about the game, so much that you could probably play it yourself with the right equipment and likely program a version too if you had the skill. Cherryh however is one of the few authors I've seen give this much detail to a fictional game. Fantastic though the descriptions are, from a plot perspective, in Ian M Banks' player of games, the titular game, which apparently involves dice, about four different boards, several packs of cards and stones representing the four elements is not described. Ditto with the game he calls "damage" in Consider Phlebas, the first of his Culture books, - though in Damage its the psychic influences of the cards that are important, making people bet all their chips in one go oor feel so much fear they don't play their hands. Terry Pratchett's thud was marketed as an actual game, and could probably be created with tactical battle or another grid engine which is cool, I have also heard the oft mentioned "cripple Mr. Onion" has rules too, though I don't remember him describing those in any disk world novel.Wheel of time mentions "Stones," which sounds a lot like "go," and another game that sounds a great deal like chess, as well as a bloody evil game played with living pieces by the dark one's minians, though I don't think we ever heard the rules of that one. Then of course chess turns up in a lot of fantasies, most notably in Guy Gavril Kay's fionavar, though the pieces had different names, and of course harry potter had Wizard's chess (I always liked the way Ron was good at chess).Another great Chess appearences was in Susan Cooper's seaward, particularly since the main character becomes one of the pieces in a really evil way.the starwars game of Sabak is playable I believe, though I've only ever heard of that one, I don't think it comes up in the films and my knolidge of the extended Starwars universe isn't great, and every game I've ever seen in startrek looks sort of wrong by modern standards, indeed the Stratagema that Data plays in one episode sort of looks more like a high speed version of Othello with wonky lights . so, does anyone have any favourite fictional games? and any, like Sej which have an actual rule set that could be played? URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/452561/#p452561 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: want to be real?Favourite fictional games you
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Re: want to be real?Favourite fictional games you I would've killed for a vr version of the light cycle games from tron. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/452859/#p452859 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: want to be real?Favourite fictional games you
Re: want to be real?Favourite fictional games you Interestingly enough, I remember an old Amiga game with similar rules to the light cycles, you drew a line which remained on the screen and would lose if you hit an opponent's line or an existing line of yours. It didn't have the cool grid speed that Tron did, but the rules were seemingly the same, although I don't believe walls that the light cycle created stayed around permanently. URL: https://forum.audiogames.net/post/452860/#p452860 -- Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
