Detailed Game Information
Cascades (Issue a New Challenge)
| Designer/Publisher: | William Chang | ||||||||||
| Rules: | http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/cascades.htm (Local) | ||||||||||
| Date Added: | 2006 Nov 21 | ||||||||||
| Boardgame Geek Entry: | 27724 | ||||||||||
| SDG Wiki Page: | http://wiki.superdupergames.org/games/cascades | ||||||||||
| SDG Rank: | 119 (-15 points, 19 votes) | ||||||||||
| Keywords (edit): | 2 Players Only, Connections, Hexagonal Board | ||||||||||
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Some words from the author: For some time now [Apr 16, 2001] I have been toying with the idea of trying to model/abstract the flow of water carving out a mountainside. A related geometric pattern is the fractal on certain seashells. [...] The image in my mind is a root-pattern forming or tributaries of a river. [...] The game generalizes to any MxN board. Without more experience playing and "figuring it out" I don't know how M and N affect playability. My intuition suggests 8x8 (really 8x15 if you measured it at the bottom) is already nontrivial and 10x10 might be "tournament".
| Username | Rating | Comments |
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| unic | 2 | Very simple, and very sharp - it's entirely possible to lose this in the first couple of moves if one is not careful. Elegant and fun. |
| DNE | 1 | |
| Aaron | 0 | Interesting, but not yet stimulating for me. |
| Elysium | 0 | Strange game.
It would be better, I think, if there was a capturing option. |
| kanajlo | 0 | |
| Laurie_Menke | 0 | Fun idea, but feels to me like the game is decided fairly early on and then you spend a lot of time moving forward to the inevitable. I wonder if it might be improved by variations? Perhaps an hourglass shaped board, or randomly placed "rock" obstacles in the way of the falling water, to make it a little more like how real water winds around landforms and obstacles? |
| CleverHunk | -1 | |
| jeep | -1 | Interesting idea, but I think is suffers from serious first player win issues... I'm willing to test it out though, since the record is currently 48% first player win. |
| maka | -1 | |
| molnar | -1 | No interesting choices. |
| nycavri | -1 | Very little depth is here. Easy to lose in a move or two. |
| papa_bear | -1 | I'm not sure whether much more can be done with the idea, which is unfortunate, because the idea is great but the game disappoints. |
| pim | -1 | Unfortunately, an easy winning strategy exists for the 1st player. |
| Zandor | -1 | I really like the concept but there is a winning strategy for the first player (simple enough that I won't lose as first player) |
| Cerulean | -2 | At best an underdeveloped idea. I'll mull this over and see if anything percolates. |
| jejozsef | -2 | |
| jonah | -2 | |
| mi_spero | -2 | |
| Zotmeister | -2 | Okay, I'm now completely convinced that this game is totally busted. The strategy is trivial, and the winner is decided entirely by board size (10x10 being a first-player win). Feel free to try to prove me wrong. |
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