BlogNomic: Artistic kittens

Monday, February 24, 2025

Proposal: Artistic kittens

Reached quorum, 6-1. Enacted by JonathanDark.

Adminned at 26 Feb 2025 15:31:52 UTC

After the first list item containing “turquoise” in Phase 2 of The Turn, add a new list item (unbolded):

(The Island of Kittens) [4] If one of your Tokens that has changed position since the start of this Turn is on a black square, change the color of any one square of The Island of Kittens or Kahuna that does not contain any tokens to a color of your choice. You cannot perform this action again this Turn.

I still want to make all the colors on the Island of Kittens do something – if people don’t want more movement effects, what about painting the board?

Comments

JonathanDark: he/him

24-02-2025 16:53:51 UTC

Any reason for magenta? That’s also the color that forces a token backwards 20 squares:

[0] For each Token that you control that is on a magenta square, if there are no other restrictions on changing that Token’s Position, you must decrease that Token’s Position by 20, to a minimum of 0.

ais523:

24-02-2025 18:27:40 UTC

I forgot that magenta does something now – was just trying to pick an unused color. I’ll change it.

It crosses my mind that the “yellow, orange, silver” decay rule makes those colors unusable because a token won’t actually stop there, meaning that there aren’t many options available for color-based mechanics – perhaps that needs to be fixed, because the mechanic is undermining itself (because it makes the colors unusable the fact that they change doesn’t matter).