Do you know what the GIPF project is?
The GIPF Project is a series of abstract combinatorial strategy games created by Kris Burm between 1997 and 2017, which pit two players against each other.
The project is named after the first game in the series, GIPF.
What the games in the project have in common is that they are played on a hexagon-shaped grid and involve a progressive reduction in terrain. Each game can be played independently, but there are special pieces called “potentials” which a player obtains by winning a game in one of the project's games, and which can be introduced into GIPF to add new features. The various games have achieved great success among strategy games, with YINSH, DVONN and ZÈRTZ winning the Mensa Select2 award.
If you are interested, you can find more information all over the Internet.
Today we are releasing DVONN, which is about piling pieces. It is played on an elongated hexagonal board, with 23 white, 23 black and 3 red DVONN-pieces. In the beginning the board is empty. The players place the pieces on empty spaces of the board, without restrictions. They place the DVONN-pieces first and their own pieces next.
Then they start stacking pieces on top of each other. A single piece may be moved 1 space in any direction, a stack of two pieces may be moved two spaces, etc. A stack must always be moved as a whole and a move must always end on top of another piece or stack. If pieces or stacks lose contact with the DVONN-pieces, they must be removed from the board. The game ends when no more moves can be made. The players put the stacks they control on top of each other and the one with the highest stack is the winner.
If you feel like you're ready to play a game, you can click the link below or try the amazing tutorial included:
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=dvonn
And that's it for this Monday!
We would like to thank Kris Burm of course, and the support from the publisher HUCH! for bringing this game to the platform. Also, let's thank EINSTEIN for developing this adaptation to BGA.
Will the other games from the GIPF project come to BGA?
Who knows what the future holds. But we are glad we have this one to start with!
Enjoy your week, and as always,
Take care and play fair!
DVONN：傳奇抽象桌遊上線！
你知道什麼是 GIPF 計畫嗎?
GIPF 計畫是 Kris Burm 在 1997 年至 2017 年間創作的一系列抽象組合策略遊戲，由 2 名玩家相互對抗。
該計畫以系列第一款遊戲 GIPF 命名。
這個計畫的遊戲的共同點是它們都是在六邊形網格上進行，並且地形逐漸減少。每個遊戲都可以獨立遊玩，但有一些稱為「潛力」的特殊部分，玩家在該計畫的遊戲中贏得比賽而獲得，並且可以將其引入到 GIPF 以加入新功能。每一款遊戲在策略類桌遊成就斐然，其中 YINSH、DVONN、ZÈRTZ 榮獲 Mensa Select2 獎。
如果您有興趣，可以在網路上找到更多資訊。
今天我們推出了 DVONN，它是關於堆積碎片的。它在細長的六角形棋盤上進行，棋盤上有 23 個白色 DVONN 棋子、23 個黑色 DVONN 棋子和 3 個紅色 DVONN 棋子。一開始，棋盤是空的。玩家將棋子放置在棋盤的空白處，不受限制。他們首先放置 DVONN 棋子，然後放置自己的棋子。
然後開始堆疊碎片。單一棋子可以在任何方向上移動 1 個空格，兩個棋子的堆疊可以移動兩個空格等等。如果棋子或棋子堆與 DVONN 棋子失去接觸，則必須從棋盤上移除。無法再進行任何動作時，遊戲結束。玩家將自己控制的籌碼疊放在一起，籌碼最高的玩家獲勝。
如果您覺得自己準備好玩遊戲了，可以點擊以下連結或嘗試包含的精彩教學：
https://boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=dvonn
這就是本週一的內容！
當然，我們要感謝 Kris Burm，以及出版商 HUCH 的支持！將這款遊戲帶到平台上。另外，感謝 EINSTEIN 開發了適應 BGA 的版本。
GIPF 專案的其他遊戲會在 BGA 推出嗎？
誰知道未來會怎樣呢？但我們很高興有所開始！
祝你有個愉快的一週，一如既往，
保重並公平競爭！
