Looney Labs Icehouse Mailing list Archive

RE: [Icehouse] New Mixed-Colors Set Speculation

  • From"Christopher Hickman" <tophu@xxxxxxx>
  • DateMon, 13 Aug 2007 16:13:48 -0400
> > C) The Eco set is being planned to lay the ground work for 
> a 3House + 3 sets package/boxed game.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by 3House + 3.  Regardless, I 
> can't believe that the Looneys are planning that far in 
> advance for specific game YET.  Zendo had a tremendous 
> following before it was made into a boxed set.  Likewise, 
> IceTowers was fairly well known before its appearance.  I 
> can't think of any current games that could be descibed as 
> 3House+3.  The most likely candidates for boxing would be 
> just plain old 3House games (Homeworlds, Black Ice, etc.), 
> but even with those game it was determined that publishing 
> the rules separate from the bits made more sense.

I think what he means is a boxed game that has three Treehouse sets and the
3House booklet, packaged as "Three Games in One!" (Black ICE, Martian Chess,
and Binary Homeworlds).