The Glass Bead GameTabletop Tuesdays: The Game That Never Was and Never Shall Be | Submitted by costik on Tue, 11/03/2009 - 23:33. |
The Glass Bead Game's rules do not exist, and it cannot be played in any meaningful sense. It is a game described, incompletely, in Herman Hesse's landmark novel Magister Ludi (published in German as Das Glasperlenspiel, that is to say, The Glass Bead Game).
Update: Star Guard is a 2010 IGF finalist in the "excellence in design" category.
"Guide the spaceman through the castle and defeat the wizard" -- can't get any simpler than that. Do you need any more reason to blast your way through nine levels of old-school goodness? Didn't think so. Star Guard is a refined, minimalistic take on those 80s run-and-gun classics; like its predecessors, it focuses solely on fun and hits its mark (in the face with a laser beam, I might add.)
