Category Archives: Games

Chess Tactics

The essense of chess tactics is to make a single move which threatens the opponent twice – unless they have some counter tactic to either deal with both threats, they will end up in a worse position, because you will … Continue reading

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ExSphere

ExSphere is a game I made for a project in Professor Laird’s Game Development course at the University of Michigan. Continue reading

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Doubloons!

Doubloons! is a game where you are a pirate captain, commanding your ship and crew to take over and plunder enemy ships. At your disposal are cannons, bilge pumps, rowboats, grappling hooks, gangplanks, and a load of angry pirates. Continue reading

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Game Explorer

In chess, there are huge depositories of games past, which can be explored using powerful tool such as chess.com’s Game Explorer. Using this web program you can play moves and see what the winning percentages are for each move that … Continue reading

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Movement Rules

I was working on puting the movement rules of various pieces in a way that there won’t need to be many specialized rules. Here’s what I came up with. Each piece has five different basic attributes: Movement points Rotation points … Continue reading

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Board Games

I started playing chess and scrabble recently, so I’ve been inspired to work on a new board game. They’re certainly a lot easier to design than video games – the constraits here are really helpful. For one, it needs to … Continue reading

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