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Paiko: like chess but with more awesome built in
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Yes, a board game made out of actual paper, not on your phone or computer.
Paiko is a two-player abstract strategy board game, less daunting than chess but more grit than checkers, designed to rely on intuition and tactical skill. As you play, you'll find Paiko creates an engaging tactical drama with enough clarity to let you create your own play style, and enough depth to foster a long term interest. (We think it's awesome, and others have reinforced this idea.)
It's easy to learn, free to print and play, and we think it's pretty balanced across different play styles and between pieces. Your goal is to tell us we're wrong. Find a strategy that always wins, and tell us what it is. We want you to break our game, so we can fix it, and by all means try to break it again.
We handed out some of our hand-made color versions around PAX, but the B&W version is free to print.
Our website: http://www.paikogame.com/
Get the game in black & white: http://paikogame.com/download/
Instructions are handy: http://paikogame.com/learn_to_play/
Board Game Geek page: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/119782/paiko
We Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paiko/189284531148719
and we Tweet: https://twitter.com/paikogame
Paiko is a two-player abstract strategy board game, less daunting than chess but more grit than checkers, designed to rely on intuition and tactical skill. As you play, you'll find Paiko creates an engaging tactical drama with enough clarity to let you create your own play style, and enough depth to foster a long term interest. (We think it's awesome, and others have reinforced this idea.)
It's easy to learn, free to print and play, and we think it's pretty balanced across different play styles and between pieces. Your goal is to tell us we're wrong. Find a strategy that always wins, and tell us what it is. We want you to break our game, so we can fix it, and by all means try to break it again.
We handed out some of our hand-made color versions around PAX, but the B&W version is free to print.
Our website: http://www.paikogame.com/
Get the game in black & white: http://paikogame.com/download/
Instructions are handy: http://paikogame.com/learn_to_play/
Board Game Geek page: http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/119782/paiko
We Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Paiko/189284531148719
and we Tweet: https://twitter.com/paikogame
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Ask away if you need tips or tricks to mocking up the game on something sturdier than plain paper, or if you have any questions or comments. People seem to get the game faster watching the video and/or reading the text instructions, and using the illustrated instructions on the site for removing confusion or rules lawyerly questions.
Love the new boards and tiles, too. Really nicely done.
Cuvis: We still like our large round tiles, but the medium square tiles have a good bit more hinting on them. There's something about the large size that doesn't lend itself well to square tiles though. The PAXtrain has been a great place to play, and we've gotten some wonderful input there.
I'm hoping to get some minor tweaks done to wording of the instructions in the next few evenings. We got some really good input from PAXers to clarify some of the last few complicated wordings. I'll post again once it's up.
The pieces are definitely less annoying to use when they have more height than just plain paper. Michael's sells some wooden squares that work well, or cardboard works in a pinch. I put some thoughts down on our forums, and I'd be happy to provide some advice there or on these forums, if you decide that more than a year merits a sturdier copy.
http://paikogame.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/7/the-great-board-tile-idea-list
Based on information gathered from people we played with at PAX, we've updated the text describing the Fire tile and cover, and tried to simplify text in a few places. We'd love to hear how it reads to you now, as a lot of the people we hear from we've taught ourselves.
(I wouldn't mind exclamations of joy at how well they're written either, but I'll be realistic.
Here's a link for convenience: http://paikogame.com/learn_to_play/
I'd love some time to revamp the whole design to center around the text instructions, with the graphical instructions being designed to provide specifics. That will depend on more input, I think, and more free time.
I finally had a chance to get photos up, so you too can bask in the glow:
Expecto Paikonus album on Facebook
Here you can see Hufflepuff vs Slytherin, with tiles on the board in play: Incendio, the Whomping Willow, Patronus, Dementor, Phoenix, and the slightly more obscure Avis/Opugno.
Like all the other boards we've made, it was hand stained, cut and finished. The tiles have an aged parchment look, and the board is reminiscent of the leather-covered desks, with a pitted metal grid overlay. It was a lot of fun to make.
We plan to spend some time in TableTop Freeplay as well. We'll post on Facebook and probably Twitter while at PAX to keep people up to date on playtimes. I'll do my best to post the schedule here beforehand as well.
We have a 3-player and 4-7 player variant we'd like to give some more play time. You can find them, plus the rules on how to play and the B&W print-and-play game itself, on our Paiko website.
- First, we'll be on the PAXtrain. We'll be on all day Thursday, the 29th. (Also on the way home!)
- After the train, Mike will head to the Sheraton Pre-PAX Board Game Night, around 9:30pm Thursday, after the train gets in.
- On Friday through Sunday, we'll find a table in the Convention Center in Tabletop Freeplay, 2nd floor, from at least 2:30-4:30pm. We'll try for room 205 first, if there's space.
Hope to see you there!