Re: [spoon-discuss] Games Magazine

["Baron von Skippy" <baronvonskippy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Certainly.  The subsection began,
>
> "Nearly every game discussed thus far, no matter how successful on its own, 
> owes a debt to Nomic, a rule-changing game that has spawned hundreds of 
> variations over the past two decades."
>
> Three paragraphs of Suberism, then,
>
> "B Nomic, for instance, includes one 2,000-word-long rule that introduces 
> Gremlins to the game; it includes definitions of 10 types of Gremlins, how 
> to count them, and how they hide. (Games of Nomic, which Suber pronounces 
> with a long 'o,' as in 'gnome,' typically acquire individual names such as 
> B Nomic, Garden Nomic, Terra Nomic, and EcoNomic -- if not prior to play, 
> then during the game itself as a proposed rule.)
>
> "Another B Nomic rule, in its entirety, reads, 'There exist objects called 
> T-shirts.  T-shirts may have text on them.  T-shirts may only be modified 
> as described in the rules.'  Why introduce Gremlins or T-shirts to the 
> game?  Because you can.  'When I make the powers for Rumble, the cards for 
> Dvorak, or the rules for a game of Nomic, it personalizes the game for me,' 
> says Ben Wray. 'The game can develop a host of inside jokes only my friends 
> and I will get, or whatever bizarre theme we desire, whereas every game of 
> Monopoly is pretty much going to be about real estate.'"
>
> Silly boy...he never played Nomopoly.  Which, okay, was about real estate, 
> but it was also about, um, vandalism, among other things...
>
> And of course we no longer have a 2,000-word-long rule about Gremlins, now 
> do we?
>
> 						Glotmorf

-That's a pretty poor depiction of the game. I would have mentioned the Grid 
rule... not just because it's huge (5,000 words), but because it's central 
to the game, as a little research would show... Research like interviews? 
Yes! Do you have any idea how spiffy it would be to have a player name cited 
in such an article? 'Twould make it harder to take anything in there 
seriously to have quotes by "Wonko," or "Glotmorf," or "Orc in a Spacesuit," 
or yours truly...

Or, for strangest effect, use Emil "insert pertinent nickname here" 
Bleehall.-

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