Become a Starship Captain!

 

We use the fanciful title of Starship Captain to refer to the fans of Looney Pyramid games. To qualify as a Starship Captain, you must learn to play at least 10 different pyramid games, then make a list of those games, ranked by how interested you are in playing them. The idea here is that when two Starship Captains meet up to play some pyramid games, they can compare their lists to quickly find out which games they have a common interest in playing.

 

When you know at least one pyramid game but not enough to qualify as a Starship Captain, then you are a Space Cadet. You can call yourself a First Class Space Cadet as soon as you know 3 or more games.

Starship Captain Challenge Coin

Social Media

To connect with other Starship Captains, we of course use social media. There are 3 different Facebook groups worth knowing about:

• Looney Labs Chatter: This is a general-interest Looney Labs group.
• Starship Captains: This group is for fans of all games played with Looney Pyramids.
• Homeworlds: This is a group specifically focused on the game Homeworlds.

More New Games

Perhaps the coolest thing the community of pyramid game fans are doing is creating yet more games you can play with these pyramids. The fan-run website, IcehouseGames.org, is the place to go, both to look for rules to more new games, and to post your own if you're a game designer!

Templates

When your game rules are ready to format into a nice looking rulesheet, our fans have created tools to help you easily format rules that will look great tucked into your Pyramid Arcade rulebook. Lou Lessing developed a font called "Pyramid Love" that contains all the little pyramid and game board images you might need, and Micah Weberg created game rules templates that should work in any modern word processor.

• The "Pyramid Love" font webpage, with instructions and the lastest version: Pyramd Arcade Font 
• Zip file: Pyramid Arcade Rules Template

Nanofiction

In addition to the original stories that inspired the game set, Andy likes to write extremely short stories, which he calls Nanofiction, consistng of just 55 words. Sometimes those tiny stories are about pyramid games.

• Nanofiction Intermission: Page 47 of the Pyramid Arcade instruction book includes 7 of Andy's pryamid-related 55 word short stories.
• Andy's Nanofiction Archive: This is an older page featureing a lot of Andy's tiny stories.

Assorted Other Links

Listed below is a grab-bag of links to other random pages about the pyramids, some of which are very old.

• The Looney Labs FAQ page has a section for Questions about Looney Pyramids.
• Pyramid Quartet Puzzles: These brain teasers were part of the Pyramid Quartet kickstarter.
• Pyramid Arcade Images: The badge artwork plus images of the game boards
• Monochrome stashes are still available from one of our retailers
• The Day of First Pieces: a report from 1999 when we toured the factory making the first injection-molded pyramids
• Andrew Plotkin's Gallery of Icehouse Pieces
• The Xyloid edition of Icehouse was listed on the Games 100 in 1993
• The Starship Captain's Metal Tin: perfect for carrying a Homeworlds set everywhere you go
• You can dowload your own Cadet Training Checklist to print/fold (as a Pocketmod)