Agora (Nomic)
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Agora is a game of Nomic
which was founded in June 1993 and has been played almost continuously since then. The game was created after the demise of Nomic World, a previous game of nomic, which created demand for a new game amongst some of its players. The game typically follows the traditional nomic style, in which proposals to change the rules are voted on by players and matters of controversy are resolved by judges. The game is considered to be fairly conservative as changes to the rules can take some time and are often the subject of some debate before they are enacted. The game is played over several mailing lists and different aspects of the game tracked by several officers, who are elected by the players. This decentralisation is cited by many players as the reason for Agora not 'dying' over its relatively long lifetime, as many nomics often do due to the failure of one player to track the status of the game or one website crashing.
Nomic
Nomic is a game created in 1982 by philosopher Peter Suber in which the rules of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually beginning through a system of democratic voting...
which was founded in June 1993 and has been played almost continuously since then. The game was created after the demise of Nomic World, a previous game of nomic, which created demand for a new game amongst some of its players. The game typically follows the traditional nomic style, in which proposals to change the rules are voted on by players and matters of controversy are resolved by judges. The game is considered to be fairly conservative as changes to the rules can take some time and are often the subject of some debate before they are enacted. The game is played over several mailing lists and different aspects of the game tracked by several officers, who are elected by the players. This decentralisation is cited by many players as the reason for Agora not 'dying' over its relatively long lifetime, as many nomics often do due to the failure of one player to track the status of the game or one website crashing.
External Links
- Agora's official homepage
- The public, official and discussion mailing list archives
- The current rules in their most detailed form
- An archive of court cases
- A list of Agoran winners