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!
Livscirkel & Tock
Vi er glade for i dag at præsentere dig for ikke kun et, men to abstrakte spil, der involverer sekskantede stykker!
Circle of Life, et spil fra Nick Bentley og Tock, en klassiker fra det offentlige domæne, er nu tilgængelige online på Board Game Arena.
Spil Circle of Life nu!
De af jer, der spillede Blooms, en slank og dyb abstrakt minder om Go, vil straks genkende Zen-æstetikken og smagen for et minimalistisk, men effektivt regelsæt fra Nick Bentley.
I Circle of Life skal du på din tur sætte en sten af din farve på tavlen.
Så hvis denne sten skaber et artsmønster, der er i kontakt med en af dine modstanders arter, der følger det straks i fødekæden (som vises som en cirkel rundt om brættet), bliver den anden art straks fortæret!
Du vinder enten ved at spise 20 af din modstanders sten, eller hvis du ikke kan spille mere (hvilket betyder, at du formåede at fylde hele økosystemet med din art).
Virkelig enkel, ja?
Men så mange valg og muligheder!
En stor tak til spildesigneren Nick Bentley ( El Poopo ) og til softwareudvikleren Adam Novotny ( A-dam ) for at bringe dette splinterny spil til BGA-samfundet!
Spil Tock nu!
Tock er et klassisk spil, som menes at have sin oprindelse i de tidlige bosættere i Quebec, Canada.
Det ligner Ludo, men ingen terninger her!
Du får kort og flytte dine tokens rundt på brættet ved at vælge hvilket kort du vil bruge.
Dette gør spillet meget mindre heldbaseret og meget mere udfordrende og interessant.
De forskellige kort giver mulighed for forskellige specialfunktioner udover bare at bevæge sig fremad, og du bliver nødt til at få det bedste ud af hver nye hånd, du får tildelt for at være den første, der cirkler brættet med alle dine symboler og vinder løbet.
Og til en vis ekstra udfordring kan du endda spille i hold!
For dette spil takker vi softwareudvikleren Jean Portemer ( Woodruff ), der efter Innovation og French Tarot blev interesseret i Tock og skabte en tilpasning ved hjælp af BGA-studio, så alle kunne nyde det online!