In response to ‘I’m Sorry I haven’t a Nomic’:

I was the one who ran Survivor Nomic, and I agree that the game grinded to a near stand-still. I’ve been tossing around ideas for something I call ‘Survivor Nomic Live’ (or SNL for short, not to be confused with certain prime time television shows). The same concept is there, with a self amending ruleset and the objective to eliminate all players but yourself, but played in a format closer to BlogNomic’s style.

Here’s what I see right now. The game is split up into rounds, and each round has three phases: Change, Select, and Eliminate. The Change Phase is where the proposals to change the rules are made, but the players cannot progress onto the next phase until the rules provide methods for Selection and Elimination. Perhaps the players could even vote as to when to move on. In the Select Phase, following the methods the players have created, one or more players must be selected to be subject to Elimination. Then, one of them is eliminated in the next phase, and the next round begins.

This allows for flexible gameplay, and at a pace determined by the players. To play like Survivor, the selection phase rules would go something like ‘play such-and-such physical challenge, and everyone except the winner is subject to elimination’ and the elimination phase ‘each player votes for one player subject to elimination and the player with he most votes wins’. To fit the Amazing Race, selection: ‘players race to somewhere in the world and the last player to arrive is subject to elimination’ and elimination, simply: ‘the player subject to elimination is eliminated’. Such physical challenges are not feasible for internet play, but with the variety of mechanics seen on BlogNomic I think the game has great potential.

Let me all know what you think.