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Storm the Ivory Tower. A Smess adaptation of Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Dec 17, 2005 08:16 PM UTC:
I did try extending the arrows on all squares, but some seemed to work better without extended arrows. In general, I avoided connecting orthogonal and diagonal arrows. I wanted lines to connect arrows mainly at 90 and 180 degree angles, so that a line would be a visual cue for a related pair of directions. In the center squares, extending all lines made the center point too fat. On h9, extending the diagonal line looked a bit too phallic. On other squares, extending lines made things a bit too crowded. The small arrows on b5 and h6 fit better with the small arrows on a5 and i6, and those on b6 and h5 looked better for matching b5 and h6. I haven't had any problem noticing the remaining small arrows. This may be because I am already familiar with the configuration of arrows used in the game. As you play it, you may become more familiar with the configuration of arrows too.