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Auctions!

cmlacy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:06:59 +0000

Here's an intesting thing - Scrabble where point values are assigned by auctioning off the points you already have: http://cheeptalk.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/scrabble-ascending-auction-edi...

I feel like there aren't that many auctions in table games, yet they seem to be fundamental to game theory and its wealthier cousin, economics. Is there something good out there I've missed?

PDF attachments

punnort — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 19:29:19 +0000

Is there any possibility to attach pdf files to submitted games? I have a card game I could submit, but it uses a non-standard deck, and the card faces are as a pdf file.

Fantasy "Anything that's not a sport"?

cmlacy — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:02:24 +0000

As fantasy football draft season is in full swing here, I begin to wonder if the model can be applied to non-sport events. Anything with a human toll (wars, disasters, etc) could end up in pretty poor taste pretty quickly, but is there anything else that happens out in the world that could be tracked competitively? Stock markets and money markets seem like obvious, if uninteresting choices. Is there some other opportunity? Or have sports really cornered the market on safe conflict and strife?

Storytelling Games?

cmlacy — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 18:52:38 +0000

We played Once Upon a Time last night at a party, and it was a good time. Could have benefitted from a more controlled structure, I think. With a slightly more aggressive group, it could have become a chaotic shoutfest pretty quickly. The concept is interesting though. How many sorts of "folk games" are around where players cooperate to create a shared narrative?

The transatlantic cable

cmlacy — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:27:15 +0000

We're some 140+ years out from the laying of the first transatlantic cable, and I feel like we could have a game centered on that.

"CCG" using standard playing cards?

cmlacy — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:06:46 +0000

Collectible Card Games are hard to develop on your own, simply because you have to make so many cards. Is there a way to implement a CCG-type dynamic using a standard deck (or two, or more) of playing cards?

What doesn't work right?

admin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:30 +0000

This is a pretty new site, and I'll admit it's undergone only limited testing. Have you noticed things that just don't seem to work?