Happy new year! We hope it will be a good year!
We’ve started the year with entering a very special board game contest, the single-card challange at TheGameCrafter (https://www.thegamecrafter.com/contests/single-card-challenge)! The essence of the rules is that the whole game, including rules, should fit on a single poker-sized card… very tricky, but fits well for a game like Asterism, where your imagination and creativity goes beyond what you actually see! The game we submitted can be found at: https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/asterism1
The one card game is very similar to a Chartagonian game which has been described both by the clerk and writers in later Chartagonian cultures. The widespread use of this game is perhaps because of it’s early origins, its simplicity, and it’s appeal to human creativity. The game has been described as both using the actual night sky, and by throwing pebbles or sea shells on the ground, to get the points to connect as star constellations or asterisms.
We think this was a good start for 2023, and hope you enjoy the game!
