I’ve been working on a loop-forming game, called Glorieta, and I’ve made enough progress on it that I’d like to share it with more people. The idea behind the game is to create a game like Havannah, but where the only goal is to form a loop. I think I’m pretty close. Comments/criticism invited. The key is to introduce neutral spaces/stones which count as both colors, which makes it much easier to form loops on a hexhex board. See link below for diagrams and rules:

http://nickbentley.posterous.com/revised-game-glorieta-20

I’d like to repost the essay here so you don’t have to go through the link but I don’t know how to post figures and the essay won’t make sense without out them. Can someone explain how to insert figures here?