Village Hosting request
Noah Kantrowitz
noah at coderanger.net
Thu Aug 21 18:11:32 EDT 2008
In case other people than just Robert are interested, I made something similar (though much simpler) for a class project a while back. https://coderanger.net/browser/school/2007/spring/gamemech/trader is the code and https://coderanger.net/svn/school/2007/spring/gamemech/trader is the subversion repo. Feel free to pillage code/ideas/whatever from it. The basic idea is to trade resources with other players (all AIs in the prototype I made) to create targets, while everyone else does the same.
--Noah
> -----Original Message-----
> From: devel-bounces at lists.laptop.org [mailto:devel-
> bounces at lists.laptop.org] On Behalf Of Edward Cherlin
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 2:54 PM
> To: rmyers7 at mindspring.com
> Cc: devel at lists.laptop.org; sysadmin at laptop.org
> Subject: Re: Village Hosting request
>
> Can we adapt the game to fully collaborative play, where players try
> to maximize community and total wealth rather than trying to get ahead
> of everybody else? A focus on getting ahead leads to the moral hazard
> of the familiar beggar-thy-neighbor strategies, that is, keeping the
> riff-raff down and gaming the system in various ways to get special
> favors while denying them to others. Like defining wage increases to
> be inflation, and bringing the full power of government to bear to
> prevent them. Collaboration, as in microfinance or the Sarvodaya
> Movement, is the actually effective development strategy in practice.
>
> See also Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation.
>
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Robert Myers <rmyers7 at mindspring.com>
> wrote:
> > 1. Project name : Village
> > 2. Existing website, if any :
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Rmyers/Village
> > 3. One-line description : economics simulation game
> >
> > 4. Longer description : game simulating simple economic
> activity.
> > Buying, selling, trading, developing resources, competing and
> colluding.
> > The player tries to maximize his wealth, but the village as a whole
> also
> > has to succeed.
> > :
> > :
> > :
> >
> > 5. URLs of similar projects :
> >
> > 6. Committer list
> > Please list the maintainer (lead developer) as the first entry.
> Only
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> > developers who need to be given accounts so that they can commit
> to your
> > project's code repository, or push their own. There is no need to
> list
> > non-committer developers.
> >
> > Username Full name SSH2 key URL
> > E-mail
> > -------- --------- ------------
> > ------
> > #1 Rmyers Robert Myers
> > #2 Nikki Lee (possible)
> > #3 Andrew Bouchard (possible)
> > ...
> >
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> >
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> _______________
> >
> > 12. Notes/comments:
> > This game was started earlier this month at the ILXO game jam. I'd
> like
> > a git to facilitate further development.
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