windows dying doesn’t help. they are on a shopping spree buying every AAA game that tencent haven’t already bought.

i uploaded a playthrough video on the website last night which should answer most rules questions :)

there is also an illustrated playthrough available if you don’t like videos.

I made a video playthrough to try and explain the rules: https://playcrowns.wordpress.com/video-example/

I put together a play example here:

Hopefully I managed to cover all the rules 😅 (right click to open in new window so it expands for the text).

Interesting! I would like to test that when it’s ready :)

1. Only the Ace can be placed diagonally - it’s its special move, but that still cuts it off from the connection to home - The game relies heavily on tactical spatial moves for all important decisions, coded into the face cards. except for the 10, which is a power move only because you can only remove a 10 with a face card and most face cards have special properties that makes them hard to use for that purpose (and sometimes wasteful to use).

2. I love the “home” row term, I need to change to that instead! You are correct, you can place a card without connecting it within the home row at any time assuming the opponent hasn’t populated your home row with higher cards to try and choke you.

3. You can only downgrade a card disconnected from the home row, but not upgrade. The main reason you want to downgrade a card is to draft a new one and try to get a better tactical card though.

4. Special rules always apply, which can make cards like the Ace and Jack tricky to place at times, and the Queen be a direct disadvantage. A jack cannot land on (claim) a card higher than itself (queen or king), so might simply not be playable at times - EDIT: albeit you can play the jack in seemingly ‘normal’ way, if you jump from a card in a row, e.g. the row turns into 3♥ -> 8♦ -> J♦ (you jumped from the 3♥).

5. Once the connection to the home row is broken you can’t place any cards adjecent from the cards that broke off and lost their connection. i.e. if you go deep into the enemy base (home row), and they have a well placed knight. that sets you back 3 turns, giving them a lot of opportunity to build up defence and pursue an advantageous position.

I hope they understand the rules. Seems I didn’t write it clear enough based on every comment so far lol. I’m really bad at explaining things D: Everyone who has played it so far I taught physically, and it was much easier to do than to try and put it down on paper. I’m going to need to update the text.

i hope the rules aren’t as bad to read/understand as it seems! i need to figure out how to improve them D:

The illustration at the bottom of my post has something called first row (think of it as your home row) - basically, cards need to be connected, as in the connection example on the boardd (from black players first row) - to be legal to play from. a card that isn’t connected to the home row can’t be played from to place new cards. cards except for aces cannot be placed diagonally adjecent to your current cards either, so the card needs to be ‘touching’ on their sides in order to be considered connected (assuming all the cards finally leads back home).

i don’t see where i put rank in the text. i had a medieval theme initially for the game, but changed it to more common game terms as i figured it would be more comprehensible. rank was the original text and idea that numbered cards are infantry and if you break rank (instead of break connection back to home base), then infantry couldn’t get reinforcements (new higher cards on top).

Thank you for trying! Been trying to find new faces willing to give it a shot all day lol. Also, tbh, I’m not surprised it’s been done before. But I never heard of golf! Going to need to check it out.

I was working on a tile game with flip mechanics but the actual flipping made the experience too fiddly. There is probably a solution I’m not seeing but I had a game of Shithead with the family and I figured using a standard deck with card powering instead of flipping might work even better. After throwing out like 90% of the rules I’ve come to a point where I feel this game flows like butter and it’s finally ready for public testing 😁

why? AR has always been superior to VR in terms of technology. i had hopes googles and later microsofts demo a few years back would take off but the tech just couldn’t find a niche market to hold onto and its just taken a backseat because it isn’t as gimmicky and easy to market to a ready-to-burn-money demography as VR (gaming). AR has actual real-life every-day application. as long as Apple does it well, competitors will follow, and as they do, we’ll actually be able to use it one day.

And they have every right to do so.

morally, no. cartoon mouse says, yes.

incorrect. currently sporting an ideapad pro that i bought directly from lenovo last year and it came without windows pre-installed.

i wasn’t aware they redesigned nuclear from the ground up. why did they pick uranium then?

it should perhaps be pointed out that we originally had proposition for both reactors but we ended up with uranium reactors because the US wanted a reason to mine uranium for nuclear bombs and were well aware of the risk difference but didn’t care about the potential lives being lost if something went wrong. later, the cost to develop a thorium reactor had no monetary benefits beyond generating power and keeping people safe so no country wanted to invest in it when the uranium blueprints were available, literally because of capitalism.

I’ve written a few articles in LibreOffice and the things I need to be able to do just can’t be done in order to follow the structure of the zine I was writing for. It’s a hobby zine and the work is free by everyone so they just reformatted it for me; but it still inconveniences others when things aren’t within a certain expected standard. I do blame microsoft for it though; all office apps uses the same standard except microsoft, unfortunately all the users uses microsoft office…

and no, krita, inkscape, gimp, etc. can’t replace Affinity. Affinity itself could barely replace Adobe in their first place. but it still has, for many. so it’s not a learning issue. Affinity is more intuitive than Adobe, so in this case Adobe is just outdated.

but as for the open source, the issue is more than just a lack of features. The UI is at least 15 years out of date.

Professionally the software just isn’t there; and it’s a real shame too, because I feel very uncomfortable using ANY microsoft products (on principle). But as far as Photoshop goes, there is photopea which is a great free browser based clone. Sadly there is no illustrator or indesign browser based clones that can match the quality of photopea, and the only desktop apps up for the job of matching Adobe is currently the Affinity Suite.

Affinity is a one-time fee at around 80€ for a Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator clone that sprang unto existence literally to combat Adobe subscriptions. Except since using Affinity exclusively for a year now, it feels better than Adobe ever did. Much more modern. Only missing a rare few of features that have work-arounds.

But, as OP says. Linux support is sorely missed. Because it’s much smaller than adobe there is a lack of community effort to get it to run on linux and if you manage to make it run, it craps out on you.

Since I work professionally with digital art and print, Krita, GIMP, etc. are sadly nowhere closer viable options (I have tried). Unfortunately I had to give up and install Windows last week solely to run Affinity properly, all other software that I use for work runs smoothly in linux, and like 95% of my preferred games (I too refuse to pay a subscription on principle).

Mailspring desktop client has a pretty neat UI imo.

my boss told me today if we moved to literally any non-microsoft platform or software, i’d be out of a job.

and he’s right. most of us only have careers because microsoft can’t push out a software that’s more than barebone functional - and everyone use them even if there are far superior alternatives out there literally only because of familiarity.

i’m not planning to stop giving microsoft shit of course. they should be criminally prosecuted over their exchange service even and how it’s blacklisting competitors to force businesses onto the platform a la microsoft classic tactics. but eh.