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There are quite a few people who think it's worthwhile to study games. There are those who study the psychological effects of playing games, or the psychological makeup of people who enjoy games. Designing a game that many people will enjoy is challenging for game developers and marketers. Simulations, virtual worlds, and roleplaying games can teach us things about society.
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Nomic is a game in which the rules of the game include mechanisms for the players to change those rules, usually beginning through a system of democratic voting.
: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.—Peter Suber, the creator of Nomic, The Paradox of Self-Amendment, Appendix 3, p. 362.
Nomic actually refers to a large number of games based on the initial ruleset laid out by Peter Suber in his book The Paradox of Self-Amendment. (The ruleset was actually first published in Douglas Hofstadter's column Metamagical Themas in Scientific American in June 1982. The column discussed Suber's upcoming book, which wasn't actually published until years later.) The gam...
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