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Kris Burm
Kris Burm is a Belgian game designer specializing in abstract board games. He is best known for his award-winning ''GIPF project, GIPF'' series of games. He was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1957 and moved to nearby Schilde in 2005. Ludography *''Invers'' (1991) *''Oxford'' (1993) *''Balanx'' (1994) *''Flix'' (1995) *''Orient'' (1995) *''Tashkent (3x3)'' (1995) *''Quads'' (1996) *''GIPF (game), GIPF'' (1996) *''Batik'' (1997) *''Tashkent (5x5)'' (1997) *''Bi-litaire'' (1997) *''Dicemaster'' (1997) *''TAMSK'' (1998) *''ZÈRTZ'' (2000) *''DVONN'' (2001) *''Elcanto'' (2001) *''YINSH'' (2003) *''PÜNCT'' (2005) *''TZAAR'' (2007) *''LYNGK'' (2017) *''MATRX GIPF'' (2024) Games that are part of the GIPF project, ''GIPF'' Project in bold. All his published games are abstract strategy game, abstract, except ''Dicemaster'', which is a collectible dice game. External links Bruno Faidutti on Burm(from archive.org) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PÜNCT
''PÜNCT'' is a two-player strategy board game. It is the sixth release in the GIPF project, ''GIPF'' project of seven abstract strategy games, although it is considered the fifth game in the project. It was released in 2005 in games, 2005. ''PÜNCT'' won the ''Games Magazine'' Best Abstract Strategy game for 2007. Overview The ''PÜNCT'' board game is one of six games a part of the GIPF project, ''GIPF'' project. This project was created by Kris Burm and is a series of six abstract games. ''PÜNCT'' is the 5th game of the project and the board of this game is shaped like a hexagon. This game was released in 2005. ''PÜNCT'' is a two-player connection game similar in concept to Hex (board game), ''Hex'' and Y (game), ''Y''. The objective is to connect two sides of a hexagonal board, using pieces which cover three hexes each. The pieces can be placed, moved, rotated, and stacked in various ways, restricted by the geometry of the board, the shape of the pieces, and gravity. Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Board Game Designers
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Flemish Scientists
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1957 Births
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Collectible Dice Game ...
Dice games are games that use or incorporate one or more dice as their sole or central component, usually as a random device. The following are games which largely, if not entirely, depend on dice: Collectible dice games Patterned after the success of collectible card games, a number of collectible dice games have been published. Although most of these collectible dice games are long out-of-print, there is still a small following for many of them. Some collectible dice games include: *''Battle Dice'' *''Dice Masters'' *'' Diceland'' *''Dragon Dice'' See also *Card game References {{Tabletop games by type Dice A die (: dice, sometimes also used as ) is a small, throwable object with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. Dice are used for generating random values, commonly as part of tabletop games, including dice games, board games, ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abstract Strategy Game
An abstract strategy game is a type of strategy game that has minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined only by player choice (with minimal or no randomness), and in which each player has perfect information about the game. For example, Go is a pure abstract strategy game since it fulfills all three criteria; chess and related games are nearly so but feature a recognizable theme of ancient warfare; and Stratego is borderline since it is deterministic, loosely based on 19th-century Napoleonic warfare, and features concealed information. Definition Combinatorial games have no randomizers such as dice, no simultaneous movement, nor hidden information. Some games that do have these elements are sometimes classified as abstract strategy games. (Games such as '' Continuo'', Octiles, '' Can't Stop'', and Sequence, could be considered abstract strategy games, despite having a luck or bluffing element.) A smaller category of abstract strategy games manages to incorporate hidde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TZAAR
''TZAAR'' is the seventh game released in the ''GIPF'' series and Games Magazine's 2009 ''Game of the Year''. It officially replaced '' TAMSK'', which was originally published as the second board game in the ''GIPF Project''. History The game was officially released in 2008. A special limited edition (1,000 copies) pre-release version of the game (all numbered and signed copies) came for sale at the Spiel 2007 games fair in Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ..., Germany. Rules The game is a mix of stacking and capturing, played on a hexagonal board with a triangular grid; the 60 intersections are known as spaces. The game equipment includes 60 pieces, 30 in each color (Black and White). Each of the 30 pieces within a single color is one of 3 types: 6 ''tzaa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YINSH
''YINSH'' is an abstract strategy board game by game designer Kris Burm. It is the fifth game to be released in the ''GIPF'' Project. At the time of its release in 2003, Burm stated that he intended it to be considered as the sixth and last game of the project, and that the game which he had not yet released, ''PÜNCT'', would be logically the fifth game. However, the series was later expanded to seven games with the release of '' LYNGK''. Gameplay consists of moving rings to flip ''Reversi''-like discs. Rules Equipment ''YINSH'' is played on a board shaped like a truncated six-pointed star with a triangular grid and 85 spaces (referring to the nodes or intersections), including those along the perimeter. The board is oriented so the lines with the letter labels run between the two players. Each space in the game is available for placement of ''rings'' and ''markers'' The game pieces are: * 5 black and 5 white ''rings'' * 51 reversible round disc ''markers'' which are black ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abstract Board Game
An abstract strategy game is a type of strategy game that has minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined only by player choice (with minimal or no randomness), and in which each player has perfect information about the game. For example, Go is a pure abstract strategy game since it fulfills all three criteria; chess and related games are nearly so but feature a recognizable theme of ancient warfare; and Stratego is borderline since it is deterministic, loosely based on 19th-century Napoleonic warfare, and features concealed information. Definition Combinatorial games have no randomizers such as dice, no simultaneous movement, nor hidden information. Some games that do have these elements are sometimes classified as abstract strategy games. (Games such as '' Continuo'', Octiles, '' Can't Stop'', and Sequence, could be considered abstract strategy games, despite having a luck or bluffing element.) A smaller category of abstract strategy games manages to incorporate hidde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DVONN
''DVONN'' is a two-player strategy board game in which the objective is to accumulate pieces in stacks. It was released in 2001 by Kris Burm as the fourth game in the ''GIPF'' Project. ''DVONN'' won the 2002 International Gamers Award and the ''Games'' magazine Game of the Year Award in 2003. Rules Equipment ''DVONN'' is played on a board with 49 spaces. The board has a hexagonal layout 5 hexes wide. Equivalently, the board can be considered to be a hexagonal shape with three intersecting nodes on four sides, and nine nodes on two longer sides opposite each other. These nodes are connected by a triangular grid, similar to other games in the ''GIPF'' Project. The set includes 49 colored pieces. One player has 23 black pieces to play, while the other player has 23 white pieces. There are also 3 neutral red pieces, called ''DVONN pieces''. Object The object of the game is to control more pieces than your opponent at the end of the game. Game phases The game starts with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
