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Re: [ANNOUNCE] New game in the server: Quoridor
Hi,
I wanted implement Quoridor on my server (www.littlegolem.net) but I
did not get permission from Gigamic. Do you have permision from
Gigamic ? Or it is not necessary ?
Richard
> Hello everybody.
>
> Yep, that's right: there's a new game available for your use, abuse and
> amusement: Quoridor, the Amazing Maze. This is a commercial game by Gigamic, a
> French company producing good, simple abstract games with wooden pieces which
> are also quite pretty to look at! You can have a look at the actual Quoridor
> board game at www.gigamic.com as well as the rest of their catalogue.
>
> Speaking of Quoridor itself, it's a simple but very fun game in which you must
> try to make your pawn arrive at the other side of the board before your opponent
> does the same. The resources you have at your disposal are ten wooden (well,
> they are wooden in the actual board game, here they are a bit more ASCII-like ;)
> fences that can be placed strategically on the board to hinder your opponent's
> advances and aid your own. There is one catch, though: you cannot place your
> fences in such a manner that you "trap" your opponent with no possibility for
> him to reach his goal; you must always leave him with at least one way out.
>
> As always, you can learn the full rules of the game (which are not much more
> complicated than that, anyway), the move notation and the available display
> options (is that sophisticated or what?) with a 'help quoridor' command.
>
> This is my first effort in coding a game for this server. In that task I was
> lucky enough to be assisted by Douglas Zander, who offered many useful
> suggestions, fixed some bugs and helped test the game in his own server, and Ray
> Pearce, who taught me how to set a test server up in my Windows box. Many thanks
> to both. :)
>
> I'll accept the next two or three challenges that I get. You know what:
>
> quoridor challenge sirrus <yourid>
>
> or
>
> quoridor challenge <yourid> sirrus
>
>
> Enjoy!
>
> Miguel Villaverde Rodal, aka Sirrus
>
>
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