The Games
The Base Game Set
Designer: Mike Reeves-McMillan
Publisher: C-Side Media
Type: Miscellaneous
Status: Free
Available at:
http://www.csidemedia.com/project.php?project_id=49
The Base Game Set is a set of simple elements that practically anyone who enjoys games will already own, and which can be easily bought for minimal amounts of money if you don't. It can be used to create your own board-and-card games, or play the ones listed [on the webite].
The Base Game Set was inspired by two very fine ideas: Cheapass Games, which create games using 'generic small parts' rather than selling you a complicated and expensive set with pawns, dice, money etc. that you already have in other games; and the Piecepack, a generic and public-domain set of tiles, coins, dice and pawns for which a number of games have been written (at time of writing, about 132).
The Base Game Set consists of:
- A set of dominoes (the standard 28-piece set with markings from blank up to 6 pips)
- One or two 6-sided dice (varying from game to game)
- A standard pack of playing cards
- A distinctive 'pawn' or counter for each player - either raided from another game, improvised from common household objects such as bottle caps, buttons or pasta shapes, or constructed from scrap wood, plastic container lids or cardboard.
- Optionally, poker chips or improvised substitutes (dried beans, pasta, matches, stones etc.)