Comments on: 7-in-1 Magnetic Family Game: Ludo

By: Shadowcat

Shadowcat — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:01:40 +0000

Digital Eel has just unleashed Space Ludo upon an unsuspecting universe. I figured that Kieron would want to know :)

By: Oddtwang

Oddtwang — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:05:46 +0000

@Craymen Edge: Yeah, I do that a bit. Basically a splash of anally retentive in your personality, that is :)

By: Filipe

Filipe — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:30:54 +0000

A pal and I were stuck with a Ludo-like game once (the game “Trouble”, which is exactly like the above mentioned “Frustration”) and decided to take two colours each. The game opened up a bit and became almost a simpler form of backgammon.

By: fugo

fugo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:22:38 +0000

anyone played the board game Frustration? same rules (except the block one) but with a different layout and a dice in a popper thing in the middle.. somehow my family always loved Frustration, mainly because it was an all-out war with four players!

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:15:51 +0000

It was something hard-coded into our spam-system, but Alec’s done some bashing it with his hammer, and it should be a proper message now.

By: Barts

Barts — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:59:39 +0000

@Kieron Gillen
Thanks a lot for your reply, much appreciated!

There indeed is such a message after one’s comment gets eaten by spam filter, promising that someone will check the comment. Changing it might be a good idea.

As for the rest, I’ll just quote immortal Deus Ex:
“In the end, all sins are forgiven – even yours”

Thanks!

By: Craymen Edge

Craymen Edge — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:22:34 +0000

Some of those pieces are overlapping the lines. You disgust me.

I can’t be the only one here who nudges other player’s pieces so they’re properly in their squares, or straightens the the pile of discarded cards when playing games.

By: TooNu

TooNu — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:17:06 +0000

Nice :)

By: mrrobsa

mrrobsa — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:13:31 +0000

When I was 8 my gran gave me such a resolute thrashing at Ludo that I proceeded to cry.
Fucking Ludo.

By: Count Zero

Count Zero — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:09:14 +0000

In Romanian it’s “Don’t get upset brother!”, a fitting name since most of the time the game, due to the length, and arbitrary nature it tends to bring out the worst in people. I hadn’t touched this since I was 6 and then I played it with my 8 year old cousins this Easter, it gets surprisingly tactical later on, and players tend to forge alliances and make deals when taking out pegs.
Still, it’s a terrible game to inflict on others, and I’ll make sure not to have it in my house when I have kids…

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:54:57 +0000

TooNu: I plan to do the same thing we did with the other ultromegafeatures, which is to post a title page which collates all the posts and links to them. KG

By: Chis

Chis — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:46:40 +0000

Yes Kieron, I’d recommend fucking over fucking Ludo, also.

‘Tis an infuriating game, at best. Chess at least allows for some measure of tactics. Now I remember why I stopped playing Ludo when I was about… 12!