Editing Comments on PlayableVariant

### 1 Comment. ### == Discussion == I'm not a GBG person, so I don't know how to interpret this. But, I recently saw this link to [http://et.sdsu.edu/dclough/digitalbeadgame/index.htm something calling itself a DigitalBeadGame.] It appears to be a PlayableVariant to me. If it is, someone could include it in this list. :) -- LionKimbro [[DateTime(2004-05-24T05:25:33Z)]] Done. Thanks. -- ["Ron Hale-Evans"] [[DateTime(2004-05-25T10:34:58Z)]] Not sure if the link to OrganicPoetry is really appropiate or not, but it seemed like GBG to my untrained eye. -- LionKimbro [[DateTime(2004-11-06T19:00:39Z)]] -- RonHaleEvans 2010-04-01 00:15 UTC ---- It seems to me there are some very simple GBG-ish games out there which deserve mention somewhere on this site, but I'm not sure where. There's a game that I first encountered under the title "alchemy"– it seems to have entered the culture enough that people keep re-making it under different names. Googling a bit gets me littlealchemy2.com, which is basically what I'm referring to. The game is played relative to a fixed ontology of concepts, and the concepts can be combined with one another to make other concepts. Arguably the entertainment value lies entirely in exploring the fixed ontology a given author put into the game; so, "alchemy" is played with automatic lookup of combinations. A friend recently showed me that the Minecraft expansion called ThaumCraft has a sort of "alchemy" sub-game, where you learn to construct magical essences within a fixed ontology. But ThaumCraft makes things more complicated with a "research minigame" which is much more GBG-like. The board starts out with two or more concepts from the ontology, and the player is supposed to create a chain of symbols such that each is conceptually connected to any adjacent symbols (ie, a parent or child in the fixed ontology), and all the starting concepts get indirectly connected to one another. -- Dranorter 2018-08-01 23:27 UTC

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