Re: A Game Needing To Be Invented.

On Feb 7, 2:42 am, Harald Korneliussen <vinterm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>  No cliche elements like the
> > Checkers jump, the n-in-a-row winning condition, or a board full of
> > pawns racing to the other side.
>
> Those elements are cliche, but apparently these aren't?

So what, you're going to follow me around the Internet now, nipping at
my heels like a little doggie?

>
> 1.Picking up beans and dropping them into the following holes.
> 2.Forming a connection between two sides.
> 3.Eliminating all the other side's pieces.
>

That's about the most asinine argument I've ever heard, and I've heard
a lot of asinine arguments.

>  If you started actually
> _playing_ games besides just inventing them, maybe your horizons could
> be broadened a little?

I like to design games.  I don't like to play them.  That's my
prerogative.  Why don't you let *me* worry about my horizons?
Meanwhile, maybe you can develop a principle, or a philosophy or . . .
maybe even a game!  Then we can argue the merits of *your* positive
contribution.