-- Val Kilmer, Real Genius

This is my fan page for Icehouse, "the 100,000-year-old game from Mars" by Andy Looney (of Looney Labs fame) and John Cooper.

What I've got at the moment:

• Tourney stuff
• West Coast Icehouse 4 (2002) scoresheet
• West Coast Icehouse 3 (2001) scoresheet
• West Coast Icehouse 2 (2000) scoresheet
• A writeup for the West Coast Ice 1 Tournament back at the end of May (1999).
• West Coast Ice 2 info is here!
• My submission for the Medallion contest
• My Icehouse Games -- the pieces are all but begging to be used in game design... there has been a relative explosion of new games just in the month or so (as of early December 1999) since folks started getting their hands on the new sets. Even I find myself coming up with new games! ;-D
  • Precary-Ice
  • Martian Backgammon -- coming soon
• The Piecenik Pages -- dedicated to Icehouse pyramid construction. "Blessed are the Piecemakers!" :-D
  • My Piecenik Gallery
    • My first polyclay stash, Gouda, given as a gift to Mike Sugarbaker for help with WCI1. This is Premo, my preferred clay, in a color that claims to be "translucent". (1999)
      • Gouda on display
      • Gouda in mock combat with other pieces I made -- want to tally up its score?
      • Gouda against a background of other prototypes (many of which had their points busted off on purpose, to see how strong the various clay formulations really were...)
    • My first stash for myself, Rhymes With, a silver Premo stash. Here it is in a game of Mercenary Icehouse with Mark Fitzsimmons's fine wooden pieces (This was the first game I played in which all of the pieces were handmade!). (1999)
    • Emerald ... City -- coming soon
    • Martian Zebra -- still in the design stage
    • Other Piecenik oddments:
      • Pawn-sized earrings, for Kristin's birthday in 1999
      • A queen-sized Daddy-O, for The Emperor's Birthday, also in 1999.
  • A useful thing to know about piece sizes, if you're making your own pieces. (Includes the coining of the term "piecenik".)
  • Eeyore translated the above into workable measurements.
  • Piecenik lore -- the early sets
    • Number 12
    • Kristin
    • Dr. Cool (Cooperjon)
    • Andy
    • A fictitious collection of stashes from Chapter 51 of The Empty City
  • Important safety tips from Nyrath the Nearly Wise on prudent handling of polymer clay.
  • The definitive instructional guide to painting wooden pyramids, by Zarf.
  • If you make pieces, see the end of this document for a polite request that you send a sample piece to Looney Labs. As Dr. Cool says, "We'd be sad if our collection were incomplete."
• Some thoughts on the Shotgun strategy. (In search of the better flak jacket. ;-7 )
• The story of how I learned the game.
• This page has been sadly lacking a link to the Unofficial Icehouse Home Page...
• ...and a link to the Icehouse Links and Reviews Page.

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Last updated 2002/05/31