Tactile

Box front of Tactile

Details

Released
1989
Developer
Brooks DeForest
Publisher
RufusPro Software
Genre
Board Game / Party Game
Players
Up to 1; single player
Type
Freeware \ Shareware
Platform
MS-DOS
Pack
eXoDOS
Manual
Not included

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Screenshots

Title screen of Tactile
Title screen
Gameplay of Tactile
Gameplay

About this game

This strategy game is played on a 8x8 board, which starts out populated with a specific pattern of pieces. There is always one human player against the computer: you control the blue pieces, based around the center of the board; the computer player ("Max") commands the red ones, arranged along the corners. Each side makes one move per turn (moving a single piece to any adjoining square), and the objective is to eliminate the opponent's pieces.

To do this, pieces may be captured by jumping over them (like checkers, but in any direction); or "infected" when the other side places its own piece in a neighboring square, which causes the victim's pieces to change their color to that of the infecting piece. However, each side does this differently - your blue pieces infect the four squares along the vertical/horizontal edges, while Max's red pieces infect diagonally along the four corners. Either method awards points, although the score does not determine the winner.