[MUD-Dev] NomicWiki

[J C Lawrence]

There's a Wiki for the Nomic game:

  http://ccls1.cse.unsw.edu.au/~malcolmr/nomicwiki/index.php

Nomic is a rather curious affair:

  In the words of Nomic's author: 

       Nomic is a game in which changing the rules is a move. In
       that respect it differs from almost every other game. The
       primary activity of Nomic is proposing changes in the rules,
       debating the wisdom of changing them in that way, voting on
       the changes, deciding what can and cannot be done afterwards,
       and doing it. Even this core of the game, of course, can be
       changed. -- PeterSuber, "How to Play Nomic"

  Most nomic enthusiasts seem to enjoy playing nomic in order to
  experience the possibilities of different kinds of lawmaking
  processes, and also to exercise their ingenuity in trying to
  discover loopholes in the rules which give unusual results -
  mostly to the benefit of the player. (This is called "scamming",
  and is lots of fun! :)

       In my commentary on the game I distinguish 'procedural' from
       'substantive' games. In substantive games, players play to
       earn points and win. In procedural games, they try to tie the
       rules into knots, either for the logical fun of it or in
       order to win by paradox rather than by points. -- PeterSuber

  The logical basis comes from Douglas Hofstadter's column
  "MetamagicalThemas" in Scientific American in 1982, and later in
  Hofstadter's book, by the same name.

The SiteMap is not a bad place to start:

  http://ccls1.cse.unsw.edu.au/%7emalcolmr/nomicwiki/index.php?map=NomicWiki

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J C Lawrence                                       claw at kanga.nu
---------(*)                          http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/
--=| A man is as sane as he is dangerous to his environment |=--
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