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Multiboard + Multiplayer board game??

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For the last few days I have been planning out my board game. Considering that there may be more than 8 players at once (and since the game only plays 4 players), I was wondering "what if" I designed the board game that will allow other board games to connect to each other....thus combining two board games....and of course doubling the number of players & area of play.

Has this idea worked successfully before or am I digging myself into another joke idea??

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Re: Multiboard + Multiplayer board game??

iwentpp wrote:
For the last few days I have been planning out my board game. Considering that there may be more than 8 players at once (and since the game only plays 4 players), I was wondering "what if" I designed the board game that will allow other board games to connect to each other....thus combining two board games....and of course doubling the number of players & area of play.

Has this idea worked successfully before or am I digging myself into another joke idea??

I don't think it's a bad idea at all. There's no reason at all why it can't work.

The only published examples I can think of... I know there's an Acquire variant ("Double Acquire") that's played with two boards. And I believe the Gipf project is designed so that you can use the rules for more than one of the games simultaneously, though I could be completely wrong about that.

Overall, though, I think most "multiple board" games right now are variants. It would be interesting to see one set up out of the box that way.

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Multiboard + Multiplayer board game??

You might want to take a look at "Fische, Fluppen, Frikandellen". Simultaneous games can be played on multiple boards and apparently (never played it myself) players can "switch" boards during a game. Interesting concept.

-René Wiersma

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Multiboard + Multiplayer board game??

I've played FFF several times. I played it once with multiple boards but discovered one major problem with it: there's no "beat" or "timer" that keeps the two tables in synch at all, so if one table is playing more slowly than the other (or even if one table just has one slow player), the fast table will undoubtedly produce the winner.

Still, it's a very cool idea and it's really well executed for the first one out there (that I know of, designed to be multi-board from the start).

-- Matthew

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Re: Multiboard + Multiplayer board game??

IngredientX wrote:
iwentpp wrote:

The only published examples I can think of... I know there's an Acquire variant ("Double Acquire") that's played with two boards.

I have 4 uncles who play Double Acquire all the time. It's the only way they play the game.

I think the idea of multiple boards connecting is an idea that works. THe question is, how much will your game use it?

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Multiboard + Multiplayer board game??

In board game design, the ability for mapboards to interconnect are termed geomorphic. Geomorphic boards have a few features along the edges of each map thare also found on other boards, allowing connectivity. These boards are often used in war games, allowing designers to make many different board configurations pursuant to individual scenario design.
The wargame Advanced Squad Leader is an excellent example off use geomorphic boards. If I'm not mistaken, they invented the concept in the middle 1970's.

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Multiboard + Multiplayer board game??

Welcome to the board. It's always great to see an informative first post!

Though geomorphic boards are very cool, however, I don't believe that's what's being discussed in this case. Certainly in the case of FFF (mentioned by me above) the boards are identical but are played on separate tables, yet the game plays with both boards and both tables. In Double Acquire the two boards are identical as well, and don't connect to each other.

-- Matthew

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