[Haskell-cafe] ANN: Nomyx 0.1 beta, the game where you can change the rules

[Corentin Dupont]

Hi all,
there is quite a lot of players! Fantastic!
I proposed a rule to lower the vote quorum from unanimity to a quorum of
only 4, for the experimentation.
But still, to have this rule accepted, everybody needs to vote! Could you
please cast your vote? If you don't plan on playing, it's better to
unsubscribe.
The players which have submitted their email should have received a
notification for this rule.

To experiment with the rules, it's better to install Nomyx on your machine
(cabal install Nomyx) and play alone, since the voting process can be long
in multiplayer (I expect 1 or 2 days to reach the quorum for a rule).

I saw people having problem writing the rules (in the log), I'll post some
comments on the game's forum: http://www.nomyx.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5
not to flood this mailing list ;) Just note that all proposed rules should
have type "RuleFunc".
If you'd like to use GHCI to compose your rule, here's how:
$ wget
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/Nomyx-Rules/0.1.0/Nomyx-Rules-0.1.0.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf Nomyx-Rules-0.1.0.tar.gz
$ ghci Nomyx-Rules-0.1.0/src/Language/Nomyx/Examples.hs

Cheers!
Corentin

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Corentin Dupont <corentin.dupont at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello everybody!
> I am very happy to announce the beta release [1] of Nomyx, the only game
> where You can change the rules.
> This is an implementation of a Nomic [2] game in Haskell (I believe the
> first complete implementation). In a Nomyx game you can change the rules of
> the game itself while playing it. The players can submit new rules or
> modify existing ones, thus completely changing the behaviour of the game
> through time. The rules are managed and interpreted by the computer. They
> must be written in the Nomyx language, which is a subset of Haskell.
> At the beginning, the initial rules are describing:
> - how to add new rules and change existing ones. For example a unanimity
> vote is necessary to have a new rule accepted.
> - how to win the game. For example you win the game if you have 5 rules
> accepted.
> But of course even that can be changed!
>
> Here is a video introduction and first tutorial of the game:
> http://vimeo.com/58265498
> The game is running here: www.nomyx.net:8000/Nomyx
> I have set up a forum where players can learn about Nomyx and discuss the
> rules they intend to propose: www.nomyx.net/forum
>
> As this is the first beta release of the game, I'm looking for beta
> testers :) Although I tested it quite a lot, I'm sure a lot of bugs
> remains, especially in multiplayer.
> So if you are interested in testing Nomyx, please go to this forum thread
> and we'll set up a small team to start a match!
> http://www.nomyx.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=5
>
> Comments/contributions are very highly welcome! There is still a lot to do.
> As for now, the game is not completely securised. It is easy to break it
> by submitting rules containing malicious code. I'm working on it. If you'd
> like to do security testing, please do it locally on your own machine and
> send me a bug report :).
>
> Cheers,
> Corentin
>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/Nomyx
> [2] www.nomic.net
>
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