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Game Publisher of the upcoming board game, Quarks! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/septilegames/quarks-the-board-game?ref=3a1ipi&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=quarks_prelaunch&utm_content=bio
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Same here usually! Unless I spend a ton of time building backstory, but even then, it’s still just thoughts that popped into my head as I wrote.
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That’s a good move!!
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I recommend checking out your pieces and colors here: www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color...
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Enjoy those tiles!! 🪩💃🕺
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Plus, the prevalence of Up and Down quarks in the universe mirrors their importance in Quarks, making the game even more immersive for science lovers like me. 🔬
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By aligning gameplay mechanics with the rules of quantum physics, I created a game where science doesn’t just inspire the theme—it shapes the strategy.
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So I named that Septile the Up/Down Quark, and the remaining Septile was henceforth known as the Top/Bottom Quark. 🐲
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Knowing this, I turned back to the game board and my play testing. There was one Septile in particular that I wanted more of on the board than the others as it adds complexity to the game. Therefore, it made sense to name this Septile after the up and down quarks.
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How do I know this? Because atoms are made from up and down quarks. Since atoms make up nearly everything on earth and in space, they are the most abundant (as far as we currently know). 🍇
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That left me with one Septile for the up and down quarks and one Septile for the top and bottom quarks. I thought back to what I know about quarks. I know there are many more up and down quarks in the universe than top and bottom quarks.
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This made me look at the quarks and think how does this apply? Well I have two Septiles that are opposite when rotated and two Septiles which are not. Those two asymmetrical Septiles reconcile nicely with the charm and strange quarks, since neither the words nor the Septiles are opposites. 🦄
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I thought to myself, well, the names of the first tier of physics quarks, up and down, are opposites. So are the words of the second tier of quarks, top and bottom. But charm and strange are not opposite words. 🌓
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So we have 4 Septiles - 2 symmetrical and 2 asymmetrical designs. And we have 6 real world quarks, first tier: up and down, second tier: top and bottom, and third tier: charm and strange. How did I reconcile the Septiles to quarks? 🤼
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Tune in tomorrow for the follow up post on why I named each quark the way I did. 🗓️
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There are only 4 unique septile designs (2 symmetrical, 2 asymmetrical) possible when you arrange 3 high and 3 low tiles along the edges. These 4 designs rotate to form any combination you can think of. I needed to figure out how these 4 designs would represent the six quarks in quantum physics. 🏔️
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This meant, each Septile could fit 2 of each color tiles on it perfectly. And to distinguish spaces for color versus their anti-color, I needed only two tile levels (as opposed to Jafabit’s 4), high and low. ☯️
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This symmetry aligns perfectly with the way quarks interact to form “color-neutral” particles, reflecting the balance required by QCD (Quantum Chromodynamics). 🌈
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Since the color force has three “colors” (red, green, and blue) plus their corresponding anti-colors (don’t ask, it’s not important right now) they naturally divide into the six tiles.
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If you don’t place a tile on the center tile (I was planning on using the center tile to spin the quarks), that left only the 6 edge tiles. 🐞
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But how do you create game pieces that reflect the structure and behavior of these particles? Enter the septile design from my previous game, Jafabit. Septiles are made up of seven hexagons with one center tile and six tiles along its edges.
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Similar to the north and south poles of the electro-magnetic force, red, green, and blue - the names of the poles of the color force (the force which dictates quark interactions) - immediately felt like a perfect foundation for the game. 🎨
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When designing Quarks the Board Game, I knew I wanted to design an abstract game inspired by my favorite little particles in physics, quarks!
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Exactly right!!!