In the year 2071, humanity stands on the brink of a new age, the age of Martian colonization. Mars, the barren crimson jewel of our solar system, teems with untapped potential. Earth's global powers and private corporations have launched an ambitious project : to transform Mars into a second home for humanity. Equipped with advanced technology, in Pioneers...
Marseille Sophistiqué is your guide to one of the most complex families of card games in the world! A 78-card deck, elegantly illustrated and faithful to the sensibility of its 15th century origins, updated with modern gameplay in mind. The Tarocchi family of games is a historical set of point-trick taking games, played in a series of zero-sum hands. Most...
Martello is played on a 6x6 grid board. 36 stones in 6 different colors and 6 different patterns are shuffled and placed on the board before the game begins. The game can be played with 1, 2 or 3 players. While the basic rules are equal for any number of players, the playing area can be different and the winning condition is always different! Movements can...
Martian Backgammon is designed using Icehouse Pieces, and is the Icehouse answer to roll-and move race games. Like its namesake, Martian Backgammon is an abstract strategy game with a significant luck component. Two players compete to be the first to get their pieces off of superimposed U-shaped tracks, while capturing enemy pieces and evading capture...
This was the first appearance of the transparent plastic pyramids that would become known as Icehouse Pyramids or Looney Pyramids. The clear plastic box contains four stashes (blue, green, yellow, red) and rules for Martian Chess, Zarcana, IceTowers, and IceTraders (an early version of Homeworlds). The three booklets (Ice Towers and Ice Traders share one)...
Martian Frisby is an Icehouse game. It is played using nestable Icehouse game pieces, a chessboard, and dice. Like Mrs. Frisby, you must move your nest to safety. And like a Martian, you must obey the Laws of the Pyramids. You start with six pieces nested at one end of a chessboard. Roll the dice, and try to move all your pieces to the other end of the...
The Martian Gathering brings two armies of Icehouse pyramids with different powers to the battlefield, where their commanders apply their leadership and magical skills through Magic cards to achieve victory. You need Icehouse pieces for the five colours of Magic: The Gathering plus a clear set if you want to use colourless spells. The game plays fine with...
"In the western areas of Mars, where men are men and the horses love them for that, is the setting for our tale of power, control and a really nice peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This is where the land is untamed, the people are wild and lawlessness reigns. Do you have what it takes to make your mark on this dusty land and call yourself a true Martian...
An Icehouse game based on Conway's Game of Life. It requires one stash of pyramids per player and one chess-board. Each turn, a player places a small onto an empty space, or grows one of their existing pieces (small to medium, or medium to large). Then dead pieces are removed simultaneously from the entire board. As in Conway's Game of Life, a piece's...
A Looney Pyramids pickup-and-deliver puzzle game As interplanetary merchants, shipping and trading goods throughout the galaxy, you race to be the first to bring desired goods back to the inhabitants of your home planets. Large pyramids represent planets, which form the planetary navigational grid on the playing area. Ships travel between adjacent planets...