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  • "Fencing" in John Brunner's "The Shockwave Rider"

    From Lennart Hukriede@21:1/5 to Anton Ertl on Fri Jun 11 04:13:28 2021
    Anton Ertl schrieb am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 1994 um 19:44:03 UTC+1:
    In his book "The Shockwave Rider" John Brunner describes a board game
    called fencing. It sounds interesting (sorry not to present the rules,
    but they are two pages and I don't have a scanner; besides, it is
    copyrighted by Brunner and I don't know if that would be "fair use"),
    but a bit tedious to play on a board or on paper. However, it seems
    ideal for playing it on two computer screens. Has anybody implemented
    a system for playing it or made any experiences with playing it?
    Please reply by mail (I don't read these groups regularly). If there
    is interest, I will summarize. If you followup, you may want to edit the "Newsgroups:" line.
    - anton
    --
    M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen



    There was a computer implementation for DOS that can be found. I am thinking about implementing the game for 2 players on the same screen in Python 3

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  • From Medo Metaher@21:1/5 to Lennart Hukriede on Tue May 3 03:31:16 2022
    On Friday, 11 June 2021 at 13:13:29 UTC+2, Lennart Hukriede wrote:
    Anton Ertl schrieb am Mittwoch, 21. Dezember 1994 um 19:44:03 UTC+1:
    In his book "The Shockwave Rider" John Brunner describes a board game called fencing. It sounds interesting (sorry not to present the rules,
    but they are two pages and I don't have a scanner; besides, it is copyrighted by Brunner and I don't know if that would be "fair use"),
    but a bit tedious to play on a board or on paper. However, it seems
    ideal for playing it on two computer screens. Has anybody implemented
    a system for playing it or made any experiences with playing it?
    Please reply by mail (I don't read these groups regularly). If there
    is interest, I will summarize. If you followup, you may want to edit the "Newsgroups:" line.
    - anton
    --
    M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed an...@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen
    There was a computer implementation for DOS that can be found. I am thinking about implementing the game for 2 players on the same screen in Python 3
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  • From James Gibbons@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jul 27 07:53:40 2022
    Hi Anton,

    Replying 28 years too late but a friend and I have implemented the game on Android. You can download it from the Play store here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gibconsulting.fencing.free&hl=en-GB

    It is a remarkably playable game and great credit should be given to John Brunner for coming up with such a great game which is just mentioned in passing in the book.

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