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Freeware Game: i45hg

2008-08-11 | by LaughinCrow [mail] | Categories: Freeware Games, Jason Rohrer

Link: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/editorials/gamedesignsketchbook/5123-Game-Design-Sketchbook-Testing-the-Limits-of-Single-Player

i45hg by Jason Rohrer

Recently Jason Rohrer has written a new article in his monthly feature Game Design Sketchbook at The Escapist. He has written a very interesting piece about the depth of both singleplayer and multiplayer games. And tried to make a simple board game with simple rules but with infinite depth. Trying to avoid gimmicks like randomness.

His failed attempt is a single player variant of Go named i45hg. Jason himself admits that he now realises it's impossible to achieve a game of pseudo-infinite depth without things like randomness or two player interaction.

The article is really interesting, and poses interesting questions. And the game is quite fun, specially if you are into puzzle games. The download link for the game and the rules are in the third page of the article. The download also features previous versions of the game with different rules.

My highscore is 69.

Read the article.

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