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The Rilsu know many variants of Tako Zanlupmi, a game that goes back to the Era of the First Civilization. But they all share several basic principles. At its core, the game requires a player to sink the balls of their assigned color while avoiding to do so with all the others. In particular, sinking one of the forbidden balls leads to immediate defeat.

Pictured above is the variant called Romatru which literally translates as "avoidance". It is infamous for the fact that nearly all balls on the table are forbidden. The only exception are the guide ball and one single colored ball per player. Careful planning and good hand-eye coordination are indispensable for bouncing the balls off the eight walls at just the right angles.

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You can read more about this game here: Reflection Ball (tradition)

I set up this scene as an illustration for one of my favorite WorldEmber challenge articles. I already had the Rilsu model and the plants in the background, and the rest are rather primitive meshes with procedural textures. After I published the initial article, readers appeared to be most interested in the Romatru variant, so it was the obvious choice for adding another image.

Everything was modeled in Blender and rendered with the Cycles engine. Textures on the pre-existing assets were done with both Blender's texture paint mode and GIMP.

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The Kaleidoscope setting and its inhabitants are my own creation.
You may NOT use the characters, species, locations, or other world-building concepts from these artworks without my explicit permission.
Thank you for respecting that.

Description
The Rilsu know many variants of Tako Zanlupmi, a game that goes back to the Era of the First Civilization. But they all share several basic principles. At its core, the game requires a player to sink the balls of their assigned color while avoiding to do so with all the others. In particular, sinking one of the forbidden balls leads to immediate defeat.

Pictured above is the variant called Romatru which literally translates as "avoidance". It is infamous for the fact that nearly all balls on the table are forbidden. The only exception are the guide ball and one single colored ball per player. Careful planning and good hand-eye coordination are indispensable for bouncing the balls off the eight walls at just the right angles.

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You can read more about this game here: Reflection Ball (tradition)

I set up this scene as an illustration for one of my favorite WorldEmber challenge articles. I already had the Rilsu model and the plants in the background, and the rest are rather primitive meshes with procedural textures. After I published the initial article, readers appeared to be most interested in the Romatru variant, so it was the obvious choice for adding another image.

Everything was modeled in Blender and rendered with the Cycles engine. Textures on the pre-existing assets were done with both Blender's texture paint mode and GIMP.

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The Kaleidoscope setting and its inhabitants are my own creation.
You may NOT use the characters, species, locations, or other world-building concepts from these artworks without my explicit permission.
Thank you for respecting that.