Alek Erickson

the winner. Trike is partisan, draw-less, finite, cycle-free, always decisive, scalable with board size, and balanced with the pie rule. Trike has high clarity due to the simple movement protocol, singular win condition, low branching factor, and easy-to-read board state. However, Trike is dramatic because it offers players many chances to make fatal errors. BASALT (2024) A dynamic connection game set on the side of an exploding volcano, where stacks of Rocks and Lava mix, swirl, and harden into a winning whole-board connection. BIDE (2020) Bide is a dynamic connection game on shifting, unstable ground. Bide was designed to challenge the paradigm of "X actions per turn", instead allowing players to manage a their own "hand" of available turns. Piece placements create shockwaves that propagate across the board, knocking adjacent stones towards the stable edges of the board. The player that manages to create the largest centralized group, amid the chaos, is the winner. RESOLVE (2020) Resolve is a square board connection game where players resolve crosscuts by swapping stones.