User:Kataclysm

Hi, I'm Kat Costa. You can find me on BGG under the username kataclysm. I discovered pyramid games around 2012 and I liked the idea of playing many games from one set of materials. Years later, it has proved an enduring hobby for me. My favorite pyramid games tend to be combinatorial games with lots of strategy and little luck.

Games Designed

Xero-G (2019)
Green Hijinks (2016)
Override (2019)
Nickel (2020)

Recommended Games

Have you tried these? They're good!
Apophis — A fun cooperative game about destroying an asteroid in real-time.
Ricochet Pyramids — A real-time puzzle game with tons of replay value
Zark City — Pyramids + poker cards = fun
Binary Homeworlds — A deep and satisfying game of perfect information and wormholes.
Volcano — A colorful, thinky strategy game.
IceSickle — A two-minute zero-luck strategy game
Imperial Shuffle — A 2-player game played on two 4x4 boards where you extinguish or resurrect your opponent's pieces from afar
Pikemen — It's like chess, but better.
Turning Points — There's basically only one rule, but you will be surprised at the end-result when there are sufficient pieces on the board.

Games I Want to Try

• Attack of the Mids — a co-op game about saving the town from slimes and collecting samples for science. The only randomness is for A.I./bad events after the players' turns.
• Treehouse Snakes and Ladders — if Snakes and Ladders had actual decisions and tactics
• Houses of Thoth — Erect high towers of pyramids and Tarot cards
• Solomids — A solo puzzle game using 3 rainbow stashes and a 10x5 board
• Icehouse Plant Game — Looks like a more fun version of Photosynthesis
• Tink — zero luck, played on a chessboard, try to get 4 pieces of the same size in a row, trading sizes allowed
• Lockpick Actually I've playtested this 4 times now. It's good!
• Infiltrate
• Amoeba You use poker chips as the board, adding to make the board larger as you go.

Useful Pages

• History_timeline — History Timeline of Looney Pyramids
• Count of Games by Design Stage — Counts all games on the site (that have infoboxes) and splits the numbers out by what state of design the games are in
• Games by Release Year
• Grids and Chessboards Copy and paste any size grid into the page you're working on for great-looking rules diagrams
• How to Use Pyramid Love Font

Pages Spruced Up

WarpShips
Binary Homeworlds
Looney Ludo
Quicksand (this one has four 3x3 grids in different colros set in a square)
Pikemen
Apophis
Turning Points (this one has the four-color-sides of the table)
Elemental Towers (tables with subtle shading)
Epicycle
Tic Tac Doh
Ambush (numbered / lettered grids and pyramids outside grids)
Override (pieces outside of a 5x5 grid)
Logger (supply to left of 5x5 board, caps to right)

Pyramid Games I Have Played

3-High A Pair of Mice Abiegnus Ambush Apophis Black Ice Blam! Builders of R'lyeh Caldera CrackeD Ice Crosswalk Dog Eat Dog Drag Race Epicycle Extinction Folio Freeze Tag Gleebs and Grues Gnaqush High Ground Homeworlds

IceDice IceSickle Intersect Invaders of Mars Juxtapose Kotra Lava Flows Lockpick Logger Mandala Martian Chess Nickel Nile Nomids Override Pentamid Pharaoh Pikemen Plutonian Poker Pink Hijinks Pylon

Quicksand RAMbots Ricochet Pyramids Space Monkeys Stawvs Subdivision Synapse-Ice Thin Ice Tic Tac Doh! Timelock Treehouse Turning Points Twin Win Unocitta Volcano Warpships What Blind Ninjas? Xero-G Zark City Zendo