Subject: Re: [stella] vcs net play A0?= From: "nj bloodline" <njbl00dline@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 21:46:36 -0400 |
I bought the game when I was a kid I believe and it had polished stones.. I got it at the Museum Of Natural History on a class trip in school. ----- Original Message ----- From: "John K. Harvey" <jkharvey@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:44 PM Subject: Re: [stella] vcs net play A0?= > Correct. Or shiny gems. The travel version I bought had pebbles.... > interesting that I actually paid for rocks. > > Anyway, whatever you use, they'll all look the same once they become > highly-pixelated. > > This is the game where you pick a pit on your side of the board, pick up > all stones, and drop one in each sequential bucket, filling your "Mancala", > or big pit as you go. > > It's a pretty amusing game, and shouldn't be too hard to program. There > are only 6 moves possible at a given time (which pit to pick up from), and > there are < 6 moves whenever any of these pits empties itself. > > -John K. Harvey > > At 09:33 PM 7/27/01 -0400, you wrote: > >Mancala is the game with marbles, right?! I kinda forget how to play, but > >that sounds very simple. > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "John K. Harvey" <jkharvey@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >To: <stella@xxxxxxxxxxx> > >Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 9:04 PM > >Subject: Re: [stella] vcs net play A0?= > > > > > >> I had planned to turn my rs232 demo into a version of Mancala. I figure > >> that would have been the simplest to do: draw the board vertically, and > >> have P0 be the left pit graphic, and P! the right pit graphic. The board > >> could be drawn with PF GFX. Any takers? > >> > >> -John > >> > >> At 08:43 PM 7/27/01 -0400, you wrote: > >> >If someone wants to start out making online VCS games, why not just start > >> >with turn based games?! Chess, checkers, heck maybe someone can program > >> >something like a simple version of "Risk". Wonder if Scrabble would fit > >on a > >> >VCS screen. > >> > > >> >- > >> >Archives (includes files) at > >http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > >> >Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > >> > > >> > > >> > >> - > >> Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > >> Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > >> > > > >- > >Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > >Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > > > > > > - > Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ > Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/ > - Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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