I generally agree with Ed on this point, although I think it would be even better if players could choose to cooperate and collaborate or not, and when they choose to work together the outcome is clearly and noticeably better. That is, make it a game that teaches collaboration at the community, village and societal level is usually the best option. Bonus points for making it behave that way AND making it believable :)
yours, Bobby On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:54 PM, Edward Cherlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> list >> 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) >> ... >> >> If any developers don't have their SSH2 keys on the web, please >> attach them >> to the application e-mail. >> >> 7. Preferred development model >> >> [X] Central tree. 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Commit notifications >> >> [ ] Notification of commits to the main tree should be e-mailed to >> the list >> we chose to create above >> [ ] A separate mailing list, <projectname>-git, should be created >> for commit >> notifications >> [X] No commit notifications, please >> >> 10. Shell accounts >> >> As a general rule, we don't provide shell accounts to developers unless >> there's a demonstrated need. If you have one, please explain here, and >> list the usernames of the committers above needing shell access. >> >> 11. Translation >> [X] Set up the laptop.org Pootle server to allow translation commits >> to be made >> [ ] Translation arrangements have already been made at _______________ >> >> 12. Notes/comments: >> This game was started earlier this month at the ILXO game jam. 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