The Fascist Game
Fascist is my variation on the game called Nomic.
Nomic
was invented by Peter Suber in 1980 and described by Douglas
Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in Scientific
American in June 1982. It is a game about rule-making and
legislation. There are lots of initial rules and play consists of
proposing and voting on changes to those rules. It is designed to be
democratic, at least to start with.
Fascist is completely undemocratic. Players propose rule
changes and The Emperor says whether they are accepted or
not.
The following games have been played:
and the following are in progress or planned:
- Game 7
- Game
8 ("Minimalist Fascist" hosted by "Thane of Glamis")
- Game
9 (hosted by Duncan Richer)
There is a Fascist mailing list run by mcvos=listserv@cs.vu.nl.
Send a message with "SUB FASCIST" in the body. Watch this space or
join the list for more details.
There is also a Usenet newsgroup for Nomic, alt.games.nomic, and a Nomic
FAQ.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Denis Howe <dbh@doc.ic.ac.uk>