Lunarinth 

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Welcome to the surface between skill and strategy!

Navigate the canyons and craters of Lunarinth, a multi-game system of components designed for striking your perfect balance between the chaotic, casual fun of dexterity games with the interesting choices of strategy games.

Lunarinth is a dexterity game board like Crokinole, Pool, or Darts, where 2 to 6 players take turns flicking rings into or around obstacles on the board like craters, walls, posts, and other rings. Walls and posts are removable pieces that fit into canyons that section off the board into closed hexagons, squares, and triangles. Each wall is composed of two identical components that snap together magnetically that present an obstacle when placed into a canyon together or a marker when placed into a canyon alone. The board has 30 numbered craters to match the 30 numbered rings, which are split into 3 colors and 2 patterns: solids and stripes.

Lunarinth comes with a rulebook detailing several battle-tested games to try. In Volley, try to shoot rings onto hexagons and into high numbered craters to outscore your opponent. In Bunker, crater rings to slowly build up walls on the board to block your opponents, surround areas, and score points. In Stations, create long chains of half-walls that connect secret paths between craters and cut off your opponents in the process. And in Shuttle, slowly remove posts from the board by caroming rings off matching colors.

But those are just our examples. Lunarinth was born out of fond childhood memories of inventing games with a standard set of pool balls when all we had room for was a yard sale bumper pool table. We want to provide a playground for board gamers and game design tinkerers to build an experience that caters to their group’s game complexity appetite. By providing the tools and components to create a variety of games on the spectrum between pure skill and abstract strategy, we hope to provide something that can make it to your table many times in many ways. And we want to fit into the space you have. A Lunarinth board separates into 6 identical wedges that can easily be stacked, stored alongside its components, and carried without hassle.

FAQs

  • A preliminary announcement Google Group for now. Expect it to be very low traffic (less than once every few months).

  • Yes, if you’re interested, feel free to join our Discord for rules updates, announcements, and more importantly for now, conversation with others about game design and/or CNC and 3D printing.

  • Not yet.

  • They are linked from the rules page here as well as pinned in the game channels on the Discord.

  • I am working on getting all of the content into shape to make that possible. I intend to have scripts for making custom boards in FreeCAD as well as cleaned up versions of all of my main FreeCAD and gcode files, which will document all tooling assumptions and stock dimensions.

  • I am a new designer, largely testing the waters as a hobby at present. My near-term goals are to produce something that is interesting to people and hone my design chops rather than bring an idea to market soon. I hope that I can make up for the lack of quantity with quality along the way and would always love to hear your thoughts!