Skava
(c) 2000 W. D. Troyka (Click HERE
to
play directly in 5D!!!) The object of
Skava is to move a piece into your opponent's "portal" at the
far corner of the board. Pieces
move one orthogonal space and capture by replacement. The board is five-dimensional (2x2x2x2x2). The initial board set-up consists of a piece in its portal surrounded on all five sides by friendly pieces. The board is
constructed as follows: The
two 2x2 boards on the bottom left form a regular 3D board.
The two 2x2 boards on the bottom right also form a regular 3D
board. These two 3D boards
are connected through the fourth dimension, such that each space in one
3D board is orthogonally adjacent to its counterpart in the other.
The two 3D boards on the bottom thus form a 4D board.
The two 3D boards on the top similarly form a 4D board.
These two 4D boards are connected through the fifth dimension.
The entire 5D board is symmetrical.
Any eight spaces that share two common dimensions may be
considered a 3D board, and any sixteen spaces that share one common
dimension may be considered a 4D board. Any corner space
in a cube of n dimensions will always have a unique "opposite" corner
that is n orthogonal moves away. In
a square, it takes two orthogonal moves to go from one corner to the
other. In a cube, it takes
three orthogonal moves. In
a 4D hypercube, it takes four moves, and in a 5D hypercube, used in
Skava, it takes five moves. Thus,
it takes five orthogonal moves to go from black's portal to white's
portal. Skava is a move-based game that allows you to navigate the five axes of 5-space. For a placement game played in five dimensions, check out Hyperspace (recently updated). You should extract
the game from the downloaded zip file ---------------------------------------------------------------- To play: 1. Run
"Zillions of Games" 2. Choose
"Open Game Rules..." from the File menu 3. Select "Skava.zrf"
in the Open dialog and click "Open" Skava.zrf is a
rules file used by the Windows program Zillions of Games
can be purchased online. For
more information
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