"Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that respect it differs from almost every other game." In the tradition of PerlNomic, SchemeNomic et al, I''ve made a simple implementation of Nomic on Rails. It works like this: The game is run by a Rails application. A player can propose a change to the "rules" of the game in the form of a patch to the application itself. If a majority of the players agree, the patch is automatically installed, and the game continues with the new rules. An earlier version of the game was won when one of the players snuck in a rule that made it possible to inject Javascript into the application, and forced the other players'' browsers to vote for the "John wins" rule. Another involved a coup in which some of the players passed a rule that would hide all evidence of its own existence from the other players (the code of the game is only visible through the application itself). If you like that sort of thing, it can be quite interesting. If anyone wants to try it, I''ve set up a fresh copy at http://venomic.net/ -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On Feb 25, 2006, at 2:28 AM, Erling Ellingsen wrote:> "Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In that > respect > it differs from almost every other game." > > In the tradition of PerlNomic, SchemeNomic et al, I''ve made a simple > implementation of Nomic on Rails. It works like this: The game is > run by > a Rails application. A player can propose a change to the "rules" > of the > game in the form of a patch to the application itself. If a > majority of > the players agree, the patch is automatically installed, and the game > continues with the new rules. > > An earlier version of the game was won when one of the players > snuck in > a rule that made it possible to inject Javascript into the > application, > and forced the other players'' browsers to vote for the "John wins" > rule. > Another involved a coup in which some of the players passed a rule > that > would hide all evidence of its own existence from the other players > (the > code of the game is only visible through the application itself). > If you > like that sort of thing, it can be quite interesting. > > If anyone wants to try it, I''ve set up a fresh copy at > http://venomic.net/Very cool Erling! I hope to get some free time to play a game ;) -Ezra
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