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Checkerboarding refers to the intermingling of land ownership between two or more owners resulting in a checkerboard pattern. Checkerboarding is prevalent in the Western United States and Western Canada because of extensive use in railroad grants for western expansion , although it had its beginnings in the canal land grant era.
A similar technique was used in the 1993 video game Doom, which had a "low detail" mode that only rendered every other column of pixels to improve performance. [3] [4] Checkerboarding also bears a resemblance to interlaced video, where every frame is split into two fields, also halving the amount of pixels that has to be rendered or transferred ...
The Price of Freedom was designed by Greg Costikyan, and was published by West End Games in 1986. [1] A Gamemaster Pack and the adventure Your Own Private Idaho were published the following year. Created as the Cold War drew to an end in the era of glasnost and thawing US-Soviet relations, the game failed to find an audience and rapidly went ...
Checkerboarding may refer to: Checkerboarding (beekeeping) Checkerboarding (land) Checkerboard rendering, a 3D computer graphics technique
At the end of the month of March, 2008, West End Games announced that the "Septimus" product would not be released due to cost issues. In August 2009, West End Games released most of the 51000 series of D6 book with attached OGL license officially classifying them and the D6 System as Open under the OGL v1.0. This re-release was in anticipation ...
A role-playing game based on the Indiana Jones movies was produced by West End Games (WEG) in 1994, called The World of Indiana Jones. It was designed by Brian Sean Perry and was offered in a boxed set, and several adventure modules were written for it. Two sets of pewter miniatures were marketed for use with the game.
An 8×8 checkerboard is used to play many other games, including chess, whereby it is known as a chessboard. Other rectangular square-tiled boards are also often called checkerboards. In The Netherlands, however, a dambord (checker board) has 10 rows and 10 columns for 100 squares in total (see article International draughts).
Like Torg, the Masterbook system utilizes two complementary forms of in-game conflict resolution: a unified dice mechanic, which is based on a roll of two ten-sided dice, and a game-specific deck of cards (the MasterDeck, similar to the Drama Deck in Torg) that is used to influence random number generation, character actions, and the game's plot.