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==Appearance==
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==Old comments==
Any suggestions for other skins or logos? --[[User:Holly|Holly]] 09:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 
: Ah, and we need a favicon as well I guess. --[[User:Holly|Holly]] 11:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 
  
==Title==
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What are the games that we're interested in called? Big games, pervasive games, street games? It's been suggested that we include sports in the title (something like "new games and sports"), which is I think a good idea. --[[User:Holly|Holly]] 09:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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:Social Games and Urban Adventures
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|comment=What are the games that we're interested in called? Big games, pervasive games, street games? It's been suggested that we include sports in the title (something like "new games and sports"), which is I think a good idea.
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What sort of games should Ludocity include? "Anything that might run at H&S/COaP"? Should it include pick-up-and-play games like we have at the Sandpit? What about board games? Should we draw a line, and if so where?
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|comment=Social Games and Urban Adventures
 
New Games and Sports
 
New Games and Sports
Aargh, you know how hung up I get on this question--[[User:AlexFleetwood|AlexFleetwood]] 12:56, 16 July 2008 (UTC).  
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Aargh, you know how hung up I get on this question
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I say, yes to sports, yes to social games, yes to creative games, no to board games. I think that "Anything that might run at Hide and Seek / COAP is a sensible marker to start with - it gives lots of guidance and context to the sort of things we want to do}}
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|date=12:56, 16 July 2008
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|comment=Apart from games, what other content do we need? I like the idea of having some how-tos, and of a bit of encyclopedic content in the relevant area (a page for each recurring event, a page for each designer, etc).}}
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|comment=we need a record of who has run what game where - what their suggested mods / rulechanges were - their feedback for the designer. We need a method of hosting video and photos tagged to specific games. We need a records / scores facility - If the lost sport were on here it would be great to see a records table.}}
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|comment=Translating the rulesets into other languages is something we'd like to encourage here - [[Thoughtcrime (Français)]] might be a good format for that, and if there's enough of a translation community emerging, we'll look into organising some actual subdomains.
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|date=02:41, 22 February 2009
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|user=[[User:196.35.158.178|196.35.158.178]]
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|comment=Jonny was here
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|date=10:24, 14 April 2009
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|user=[[User:74.209.38.174|Guest 495]]
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|comment=Wonderfull great site
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==Parlor Games List?==
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I'm not sure what to call what I'm trying to do right now (hence the '?' in the subject), but I want to make a list of all pervasive-esque games that are played in what I'm calling "parlor-style." Games that have already made my list are:
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*Mafia/Werewolf/Red Scare (All the same game with different themes)
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*Capetown
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*The Resistance
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*The Things
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*Grand Emperor
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*Standoff
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*Hermit's House
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*The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen
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Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!
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NOTE: I'm currently reading through the games listed on Ludocity, and I'll post games that fit the list as I find them. In the meantime, feel free to tell me games (even if they're on here) to look at. Thanks! --[[User:BigBur|BigBur]] ([[User talk:BigBur|talk]]) 2009-07-13 22:08:48
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Maybe Hermit's House fits into my list? I haven't read the rules yet...
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What is the game "Ghost" about? I read about it on the fire hazard site... --[[User:BigBur|BigBur]] ([[User talk:BigBur|talk]]) 2009-07-14 21:53:38
  
==Contents==
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We're having an evening for games roughly in this mould at the Hide&Seek Weekender at the end of the month, and I think the inclusions that are a bit parlour-game-y are:
What sort of games should Ludocity include? "Anything that might run at H&S/COaP"? Should it include pick-up-and-play games like we have at the Sandpit? What about board games? Should we draw a line, and if so where?
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*Hermit's House
: I say, yes to sports, yes to social games, yes to creative games, no to board games. I think that "Anything that might run at Hide and Seek / COAP is a sensible marker to start with - it gives lots of guidance and context to the sort of things we want to do--[[User:AlexFleetwood|AlexFleetwood]] 12:56, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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*Standoff
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*Capetown
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*Grand Emperor
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*Ponzi!
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*Privacy is Dead
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*The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (which is not a Ludocity game - it's a published game by James Wallis) --[[User:Holly|Holly]] ([[User talk:Holly|talk]]) 2009-07-15 16:07:04
  
Apart from games, what other content do we need? I like the idea of having some how-tos, and of a bit of encyclopedic content in the relevant area (a page for each recurring event, a page for each designer, etc). --[[User:Holly|Holly]] 09:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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Thanks for the suggestions, Holly. I've always wanted to play The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (minus all the stupid alcoholic, sexual, or racist fluff)... So basically, the game can be played without all that anyway - it's just a storytelling game.
:we need a record of who has run what game where - what their suggested mods / rulechanges were - their feedback for the designer. We need a method of hosting video and photos tagged to specific games. We need a records / scores facility - If the lost sport were on here it would be great to see a records table.--[[User:AlexFleetwood|AlexFleetwood]] 12:56, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 
  
==Discussion==
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So I guess the only games I need to "relook into" are:
I'm not very comfortable using wiki talk pages for discussions like this - I don't know what the alternatives are, though. Some sort of comment plug-in or forum? I suppose this page will be a decent test of how we feel about using talk pages, anyway, but I do feel like we will be excluding a significant proportion of people from discussion if we do it all here. --[[User:Holly|Holly]] 09:20, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 
: I agree - this is way fiddly.--[[User:AlexFleetwood|AlexFleetwood]] 12:56, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 
: I could install [http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Postcomment this extension] to replace Mediawiki's standard talk system (it would look something like [http://www.wikihow.com/Discussion:Transfer-Cassette-Tape-to-Computer this] instead). It's a tradeoff between ease of comment submission, and ease of discussion organisation - maybe that's okay if every discussion page is for a sufficiently small subject, though. But I'll see what other options are out there. --[[User:Kevan|Kevan]] 13:40, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 
:: Okay, Extension:Postcomment is now running on all talk pages. The extension doesn't document how to deal with blank talk pages (Mediawiki defaults to a standard edit page if you click "Discussion" on an article that's had no discussion yet), but I can presumably hack my way around that. --[[User:Kevan|Kevan]] 09:40, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 
  
==Translation==
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Ponzi!
Obviously we need to support rulesets in different languages, and translations of existing rulesets into different languages. Is it worth doing the Wikipedia subsite thing, or should we just have, eg, /Thoughtcrime/francais and /UnumLudumIucundum/english (or however it works) for now, and encourage language-specific subsites as we go along?--[[User:Holly|Holly]] 11:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
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Privacy is Dead --[[User:BigBur|BigBur]] ([[User talk:BigBur|talk]]) 2009-07-15 17:10:23
:[[Thoughtcrime (Français)]] is probably the cleanest title format. We can look at actual subsites if any particular languages seem to be really taking off. --[[User:Kevan|Kevan]] 12:43, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 
  
==Copyright stuff==
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I think Kevan has a game on his website (www.kevan.org) that would fit in this category. --[[User:Peads|Peads]] ([[User talk:Peads|talk]]) 2009-07-31 11:51:30
At the moment we have only CC noncommercial-attribution stuff. Is this workable? Is anyone going to fiercely want to choose a different licence? What about stuff like Cruel 2 B Kind, which is "anyone can run it" but is not actually CC licensed? Does that mean we can't include it on Ludocity - which seems kind-of absurd - and if we ''can'' include it, where do we draw the line? --[[User:Holly|Holly]] 12:03, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 
:I've added a "public domain" option ([[Help:Creating_a_game#Add_an_infobox|explained here]]) for anyone who really wants to release a game as public domain, or wants to write up and old and definitely public game.
 
:With not-quite-CC games, it's just up to the creator to decide whether they want to rerelease it as CC AT-NC, or as public domain. I'm not sure where we should go if a creator doesn't want to do either of those - we could still have a page describing the game and collecting photos and player reports, but I'm not sure how much we want to encourage pages that don't tell you how to play the game yourself. (Even if we did do that, it seems inevitable that someone would ask "So, what are the rules?" on the talk page, and someone else would tell them.) --[[User:Kevan|Kevan]] 12:43, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 

Latest revision as of 16:47, 21 October 2015

Old comments

Holly said:

What are the games that we're interested in called? Big games, pervasive games, street games? It's been suggested that we include sports in the title (something like "new games and sports"), which is I think a good idea.

What sort of games should Ludocity include? "Anything that might run at H&S/COaP"? Should it include pick-up-and-play games like we have at the Sandpit? What about board games? Should we draw a line, and if so where?

AlexFleetwood said:

Social Games and Urban Adventures New Games and Sports Aargh, you know how hung up I get on this question

I say, yes to sports, yes to social games, yes to creative games, no to board games. I think that "Anything that might run at Hide and Seek / COAP is a sensible marker to start with - it gives lots of guidance and context to the sort of things we want to do

Holly said:

Apart from games, what other content do we need? I like the idea of having some how-tos, and of a bit of encyclopedic content in the relevant area (a page for each recurring event, a page for each designer, etc).

AlexFleetwood said:

we need a record of who has run what game where - what their suggested mods / rulechanges were - their feedback for the designer. We need a method of hosting video and photos tagged to specific games. We need a records / scores facility - If the lost sport were on here it would be great to see a records table.

Kevan said:

Translating the rulesets into other languages is something we'd like to encourage here - Thoughtcrime (Français) might be a good format for that, and if there's enough of a translation community emerging, we'll look into organising some actual subdomains.

196.35.158.178 said:

Jonny was here

Guest 495 said:

Wonderfull great site

Parlor Games List?

Old forum comments

(The Ludocity website previously had integrated forums, but they fell into spam-covered decline and were shut down in 2015. The comments in this section have been automatically converted from that forum.)

I'm not sure what to call what I'm trying to do right now (hence the '?' in the subject), but I want to make a list of all pervasive-esque games that are played in what I'm calling "parlor-style." Games that have already made my list are:

  • Mafia/Werewolf/Red Scare (All the same game with different themes)
  • Capetown
  • The Resistance
  • The Things
  • Grand Emperor
  • Standoff
  • Hermit's House
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated!

NOTE: I'm currently reading through the games listed on Ludocity, and I'll post games that fit the list as I find them. In the meantime, feel free to tell me games (even if they're on here) to look at. Thanks! --BigBur (talk) 2009-07-13 22:08:48

Maybe Hermit's House fits into my list? I haven't read the rules yet...

What is the game "Ghost" about? I read about it on the fire hazard site... --BigBur (talk) 2009-07-14 21:53:38

We're having an evening for games roughly in this mould at the Hide&Seek Weekender at the end of the month, and I think the inclusions that are a bit parlour-game-y are:

  • Hermit's House
  • Standoff
  • Capetown
  • Grand Emperor
  • Ponzi!
  • Privacy is Dead
  • The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (which is not a Ludocity game - it's a published game by James Wallis) --Holly (talk) 2009-07-15 16:07:04

Thanks for the suggestions, Holly. I've always wanted to play The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen (minus all the stupid alcoholic, sexual, or racist fluff)... So basically, the game can be played without all that anyway - it's just a storytelling game.

So I guess the only games I need to "relook into" are:

Ponzi! Privacy is Dead --BigBur (talk) 2009-07-15 17:10:23

I think Kevan has a game on his website (www.kevan.org) that would fit in this category. --Peads (talk) 2009-07-31 11:51:30