| Glotmorf on 14 Apr 2003 14:51:01 -0000 |
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| Re: [spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] INH Charter |
On 4/12/03 at 1:53 PM Daniel Lepage wrote: >Okay, now we need a subgame to start with... Any suggestions? > >Here are some ideas: > >Rumble - it just looks like fun Description, please? >Mafia - I don't know how many of you will have heard of this, but it's >a reasonably simple game that could easily be adapted to online play. >The basic premise is that everyone is a villager in a little town >somewhere, but a few of the villagers are also members of the Mafia. >Only the Mafia members know who they all are; the citizens must figure >out who the Mafia are and lynch them, while the Mafia members try to >convince them to lynch innocent citizens. It's a bit more complicated >than that, but not by much. Roleplay-based? >Chess - A chess-based subgame with nomic-based rule changes. Could be >fun. Would that be two-person chess, team chess, or a hybridized multiplayer chess? Also, there's a couple products (one by Steve Jackson) that use cards to modify chess rules: each player has a hand of cards, and can play a card on his turn to change the rules. Is this a workable/desirable format? >Lottery - One of the simplest possible Subgames, contestants pay money >to get in, and one picked randomly gets the profits. Sounds boring, but >perhaps with some minor variations we could make something more >interesting from it... Do we really need membership in a society to run this? >Anyone got anything else? Well, there's Diplomacy...Once upon a time I heard of something called Hypereconomic (or "hyperec") Diplomacy, which was Diplomacy with economic factors thrown in and a semi-modifiable map. Imagine Diplomacy where you could subdivide or merge provinces, or expand into new territories not on the printed map. Glotmorf ----- The Ivory Mini-Tower: a cyber-anthropologist's blog http://ix.1sound.com/ivoryminitower _______________________________________________ spoon-discuss mailing list spoon-discuss@xxxxxxxxx http://lists.ellipsis.cx/mailman/listinfo/spoon-discuss