Mariko 3D is a remake of the popular tactical game Ishido, an ancient japanese board game. You are given a set of 72 tiles, each marked with a specific color and figure.The stones are presented one at a time, and you place them on a board with 96 slots. You have to fill up the board as much as possible with stones in a specific way: each of them can be places only adjacent to a stone that shares either its color or its figure. The more stones that your stone touches, the more points you earn for that stone. The game is won by making the highest score possible, but you will quickly find other goals to achieve, such as using all the tiles or scoring four-way matches around the starting board. Like all great board games, Marikos concept is deceptively simple, but offers a deeply complex and challenging experience. Mariko proofs that a game does not need many rules to be sophisticated. The concept is simple, yet each new move offers a wealth of possibilities to be explored, making this a perfect entry for the deep-thinking strategist. The game has a tutorial and a training mode for the beginner. 14 different difficulties (level), for example: time limit per move, provides for new challenges. The full version contains four layouts with different tile sets.
Type : Shareware ($19.95)
OS Support : Windows All + Vista
Date stamp / Size : Nov, 25. 2006 / 3030 kBytes
Asked : 3D graphics cart, DirectX 8.1 or better, 12 MB hard disc space, 128 MB RAM
Update history of Mariko 3Dv1.26 (August, 30. 2009)
bugs eleminated and tutorial reworked
Distribution permissions for Mariko 3D
The copyright for all parts of the program is controlled exclusively by the author.The demo version of the program may be copied. You can sell it against a small charge and drive it onto CD-ROM away or you can offer it in mailboxes on internet servers for a download. In this case, the program may be passed on completely only with all files. No files may be modified or added. The most current version which is prepared for the download on the homepage of the author (www.gzwo.com) should only be used. While marketing on CD-ROM, the author would be pleased with a specimen copy. The contents of the present PAD file should be employed for program descriptions in catalogs or homepages.