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Day 3 Game 3: 30 games in 30 days using Grids

CLICK HERE TO PLAY GAME 3


This is what Grids did for us today. What can Grids do for you?

Game 3 is a version of the famous game Ludo. This version is played with 6 players on a hex grid.

Like Ludo, the goal is to move all your pieces from the start to finish. Players take turns throwing a die, select a piece to move, and move that piece by the number of cells indicated by the die. If a player lands on a cell occupied by another player, the other player is kicked back to the start. If the player lands on a cell occupied with one of his own pieces, he moves to the closest open cell before the second piece. (This differs from the normal Ludo, in which the two pieces become replaced by a “King”).

The first player to get all his pieces to the home base wins.

Ludo played against the computer is not much fun 🙁 The normal drama of rolling a die is missing. The pace is too fast for there to be any anticipation over what pieces the opponent selects – if we make it slower, the game becomes really boring…

Some of these problems can be solved, but one problem is very tricky: the balance between the number of pieces, the number of players in the playing field, the length of the main track.

• If the track is too long, the game becomes very long and a bit tedious.
• If the track is too short, players are kicked to the start too often – the game becomes frustrating, and can also become too long.
• With fewer pieces, the amount of action can be reduced, and the track can be shortened without the above effect.
• But fewer pieces means fewer choices, and also that luck plays a bigger role.


Click here to check out all 30 games 


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  • Posted: 3 November 2013
  • Tags: hex grid, hexagonal grid, Ludo game, unity game, Unity Library, Unity Plugin
  • Author: Gamelogic
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