On Wednesday, March 11, 2009, at 04:05PM, "Andy Looney" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Do any of you feel that there has been a more productive and/or creative >> crop of games coming out these days, or not? Why or why not? > >I believe I've been on a roll recently because I've started focusing on >designing games for the 3HOUSE set. Starting with Black ICE and including >Zark City, World War 5, and two more new games I have nearly done but not >yet declassified, I've been finding that 9 pyramids of a color is a sweet >spot that's better in some ways than either 15 or 3. It's like a Goldilocks >thing -- a full stash is too many pieces of each color, a Treehouse set >provides too few... but a 3HOUSE stash is Just Right. While personally Zendo is my favorite Icehouse game I've played, I appreciate the 3HOUSE games much more than any others, as more of my friends prefer and play those, especially (far and away) World War 5. I think by now I've played more WW5 games than any other Icehouse games combined, and it is on track to eclipse Fluxx by the end of the summer. I look forward to seeing if the new stuff can dethrone WW5. >> And in a slightly off-topic comment, I just heard Andy's podcast >> mentioning "Are you the Traitor?" and think it sounds like the most >> brilliant idea from Andy in quite a while. It sounds like the first >> really original take on Werewolf by anyone for a long time. > >Cool, I'm glad you think so! I'm pretty excited about it too -- I see >people responding to it like that have to very few of my other games. I >think it's gonna be a big hit. Yeah, when can we buy it already? :)