Richard H Recard

20030027611, Feb 6, 2003

Apr 6, 2001

09/827844

Richard Recard - Louisville CO, US

G06F019/00

463/001000

Three interrelated games, sharing elements of their spacecraft navigation components consisting of game boards, game markers, and rules articulating spacecraft game marker movement to game board polygons and figures; wherein one game simulates a stellar civilization's economic development subsumed by a universal moral or karmic dynamic analogous to natural law, generating a synergy between each player's advancement of their own economic interests and their sacrifices for the advancements of other players, using a non-tessellating game board and incorporating a population homeostasis mechanism; and wherein the remaining two games are more fundamentally interrelated by their simulations of sports-like competition—one using a tessellating and the other a non-tessellating game board—between fleets of spacecraft which attempt to remove each other from play using laser registers upon hull photo-receptor targets while concurrently attempting to circumnavigate a star to gain points which are exchanged for spacecraft differentiated by power. All games include hypertime and/or hyperspace mechanisms which simulate transcending time and space. Also developed are the essential features of the three games' implementations using software distributed upon computer networks and interacting real-time thereon.

59063726, May 25, 1999

Jul 12, 1997

8/900364

Richard H. Recard - Boulder CO

A63F 300

273253

A tessellating board game which combined with game rules simulates the economic development of single or multiple star planetary systems in which choices made by competing parties influencing each other's economic prospects have ramifications modeled by a subsuming moral dynamic, affecting player destiny as moral or karmic law analogous to natural law. Also simulated is a complex gravitational field of a star and its planets, either for a single star in the unistellar game version or for multiple stars in the multistellar game version, and players must plot spacecraft trajectories within those gravitational fields, adjusting spacecraft speed and direction using planetary encounters and fuel decrement, and, in the multistellar game, using hyperspace jump locations to transcend the constraint of distance.

D2520494, Jun 5, 1979

Mar 17, 1977

5/778625

Richard H. Recard - Horseheads NY

D2101

D21 34