DIS: [proto] Mornington Crescent as a contest?

2009-04-06 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
Is the idea even feasible? I am thinking somewhere along the lines of the original Mornington Crescent, with all its nuances and strategies, being played as a contest monitored by a few meta-rules. So a move consists of a description of the move with things like Nice move, I'll have to rethink

Re: DIS: [proto] Mornington Crescent as a contest?

2009-04-06 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:33 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: Is the idea even feasible? I am thinking somewhere along the lines of the original Mornington Crescent, with all its nuances and strategies, being played as a contest monitored by a few meta-rules. So a move consists of a description of

Re: DIS: [proto] Mornington Crescent as a contest?

2009-04-06 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/4/6 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:33 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: Is the idea even feasible? I am thinking somewhere along the lines of the original Mornington Crescent, with all its nuances and strategies, being played as a contest monitored by a few meta-rules.

Re: DIS: [proto] Mornington Crescent as a contest?

2009-04-06 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:50 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: 2009/4/6 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: Rather different from what you thought up, though; the old ruleset looks like quite an interesting and fun ruleset for Mornington Crescent. I can't be bothered to read all that, I'm sorry, but

Re: DIS: [proto] Mornington Crescent as a contest?

2009-04-06 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/4/6 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:50 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: 2009/4/6 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: Rather different from what you thought up, though; the old ruleset looks like quite an interesting and fun ruleset for Mornington Crescent. I can't be

Re: DIS: [proto] Mornington Crescent as a contest?

2009-04-06 Thread Alex Smith
On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:59 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: Okay, well, not in mine. At least that's not the kind of game I want to create now. I take it you're not a big fan of MC as it's originally played? It's a great game in the abstract, but only if it has no important side-effects. Merging

Re: DIS: [proto] Mornington Crescent as a contest?

2009-04-06 Thread Jamie Dallaire
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Jonatan Kilhamn jonatan.kilh...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/4/6 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 22:50 +0200, Jonatan Kilhamn wrote: 2009/4/6 Alex Smith ais...@bham.ac.uk: Rather different from what you thought up, though; the old ruleset

Re: DIS: [proto] Mornington Crescent as a contest?

2009-04-06 Thread Jonatan Kilhamn
2009/4/6 Elliott Hird penguinoftheg...@googlemail.com: 2009/4/6 Jonatan Kilhamn jonatan.kilh...@gmail.com: I can't be bothered to read all that, I'm sorry, but it's not at all what I meant. From what I can see Mornington Nomic is more of a nomic meant to look like a game of MC than a game of