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Elongo

Monday, 24th November 2025

Today Elongo goes live on BGA. It's an abstract tile-placement game which I implemented, designed by Robert Smith.

The game is based on one of the Penrose tilings with which you can asymmetrically tile the plane (although that requires some additional restrictions which are not enforced by Elongo.)

The goal is to find homes for your collection of animals, and the first player to place them all on the board wins. The shapes you can create and the ways you place animals are very interesting, and it's superbly multiplayer with the ability to block players, snipe control of regions, and surround enemy enclosures with a large boma.

I enjoyed the mathematical nature of the game, and even had to cut out some pieces to get my head around the different parts of the tiles. Each of the tiles has regions and edges, each with their own ids.

If you fancy a game, bring it on!