Game Projects

This page includes several game-related projects regarding abstract games, namely:

• the backup of most of the posts published in the defunct rec.games.abstract (1992-2018) and Recre.Games.Combinatorial (2010-2014) newsgroups
  • it is possible to search the posts' titles
  • for better search go to Google Groups (note: Google posts might be truncated)
• the backup of all posts published in the defunct Yahoo! Abstract Games club (2000-2011)
• selection of games designed and playtested by Bill Taylor and João Pedro Neto during their email correspondence between 2001 and 2021
• entries of Sid Sackson's diaries where he describes new abstract games
• selection of the most relevant abstract games from the 19th and the 20th century
• selection of good games from the first quarter of the 21st century
• a timeline of the previous 250 years regarding abstract games
• several software applications for visualizing games (Javascript, Postscript, or Python)
• a proposal for a gaming set to play board games, in the sense that a deck of cards is used to play card games
• all the editions of the Portuguese Board Games Contest, an annual event where thousands of students gather to play abstract games