- We present in the Win section a page about
Blobs. It shows that the player has a toolkit to create new games. It is
very
powerfull, so that it is certainly possible to create all the variants of ataxx
that you see on the previous pages (see also the page Zillions Hexxagon). As an example, here
is shown a game titled Blobs and Walls and created by Ingo Althofer
(Deutschland).
- The beginning position of the red and blue blobs is classical, in
the four corners. The pieces (= blobs) moving rules are also the classical
Ataxx
ones. Each player has blocks (= walls) of his colour, as shown in the above
image. In every third turn, he is throwing one.
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Each player has his own blocks and moves them
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- The two players move in a 6-cycle :
- Red playing a blob
- Blue playing a blob
- Red throwing a wall
- Blue playing a blob
- Red playing a blob
- Blue throwing a wall
The winning condition is the traditional one (counting the blobs of each color).
- Walls are thrown only on free squares. Then, Ingo has created some
variants :
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- walls were allowed to be thrown anywhere
- walls only on own blobs
- walls only on blobs of any colour.
- Ingo says : "After I had had the idea of "Blobs and Walls", the
programming under Zillions was a question of
5 minutes for the "original" and 1 minute each for the variants. (And I started
to program under Zillions only 10 days ago.)"
- And he says : "My experience: the more walls are thrown (so for
instance 4-cycle instead of 6-cycle), the better
for the human player (in contest with the Zillions program)."
- So Zillions is a very interesting platform to create games !
Adress : Zillions of
games.
