Re what a subgame is, I think I'd define "subgame" as something like "delimited set of activities intended to be fun primarily for its own sake". A subgame doesn't have to be defined outside of the ruleset, nor is it necessary for a subgame to be isolated from the rest of Agora (but there should be some dividing line there for it to be a "subgame").
On Dec 16, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Kerim Aydin wrote: > On Mon, 16 Dec 2013, Aaron Goldfein wrote: >> The economies aren't really subgames because they interact with the whole of >> Agora. > > Ok, we want a subgame that 'kinda' interacts, maybe just through > Score/winning, > but not requiring participation in order to vote, make proposals etc. About > right? I'm not so sure. If a subgame only interacts with Agora through winning and whatnot, then it's just a game played on the same mailing list, where you get a tiny prize if you win. But I suppose that's not much of a problem; if a subgame is fun, it's going to remain fun even if it's not attached to the outer game. —Arufonsu
