Lexicon!!!

[active_apathy]

(10 points for anyone who can tell me what the subject line references)

palmer_kun has notions of starting a game of Lexicon.

Lexicon is a game where players, in the role of scholars in a fictional setting, are collaboratively writing an encyclopaedia. There are twenty-six turns in a game of Lexicon, with each corresponding to a letter of the alphabet.

The player whose turn it is must then write an encyclopaedia entry on a topic beginning with that letter. If undefined topics exist for that letter, they have to pick one of those; otherwise, they can make up one of their own. The entry must link to at least one previous entry (if any exist) and two undefined entries that begin with later letters (unless there's at least one undefined entry for every letter left in the game, in which case no new entries may be created).

Overall, the game can be fairly well described as a blend of role-playing, world-building and creative writing. It runs smoothest as a wiki, but palmer_kun has some ideas about how it could be adapted to be playable in an LJ comm like apathy_games.

So!

[Poll #1106984]

And should you have any other ideas or suggestions, do feel free to comment.

Comments

[ethernight.livejournal.com]

I think I've played that before. But it was called something else... "wikipedia" I think.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

• Speedy delete - comment is non-notable, non-encyclopaedic, and lacks sources.

(except not so much with the actual deleting.)

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

In terms of discussion, wikis can be used for that as well. Most implementations include talk pages that I'm aware of... and we could just set up general chatter pages as needed.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

That's true, but a comm centralises it and does other things like reply notifications.

Also! Easier solution: the game could be recast as scholarly papers or journal articles rather than an encyclopaedia, with later 'entries' just being pro forma citations, which would better fit the format of journal entries.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Or, on second thought, not; it's a trickier format, and being able to use journal-style titles would seriously undermine the alphabetical turns thing.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Woo, that reminds me, how's Nomicide going?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It's kind of slower and quieter this time. It's... dismaying, actually, like someone's sprayed keyboards everywhere with some kind of skin-contact happy drug.

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

You mean that isn't normal?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

You've seen the Internet, haven't you?

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Bon anniversaire :)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Merci :)

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

RESULTS!

[info]active_apathy -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]active_apathy -- A wiki for the encyclopaedia, and an LJ comm for talking in
[info]active_apathy -- Would still be happy to play

[info]canadianevil -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]canadianevil -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]canadianevil -- Would still be happy to play

[info]futotta_neko -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]futotta_neko -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]futotta_neko -- Would still be happy to play

[info]golden_purple18 -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]golden_purple18 -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]golden_purple18 -- Would still be happy to play

[info]jennisis -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]jennisis -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]jennisis -- Would still be happy to play

[info]leyse -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]leyse -- A wiki for the encyclopaedia, and an LJ comm for talking in
[info]leyse -- Would still be happy to play

[info]maggiebloome -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]maggiebloome -- A wiki for the encyclopaedia, and an LJ comm for talking in
[info]maggiebloome -- Would still be happy to play

[info]palmer_kun -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]palmer_kun -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]palmer_kun -- Would still be happy to play

[info]soberloki -- Definitely interested in playing!
[info]soberloki -- An LJ comm only
[info]soberloki -- Would need to see how it was implemented




[info]cliomuse -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]cliomuse -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]cliomuse -- Would need to see how it was implemented

[info]daphyn -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]daphyn -- A wiki for the encyclopaedia, and an LJ comm for talking in
[info]daphyn -- Would need to see how it was implemented

[info]iisz -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]iisz -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]iisz -- Would need to see how it was implemented

[info]kdsorceress -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]kdsorceress -- An LJ comm only
[info]kdsorceress -- Would still be happy to play

[info]lady_zip -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]lady_zip -- A wiki for the encyclopaedia, and an LJ comm for talking in
[info]lady_zip -- Would need to see how it was implemented

[info]mistressnaoko -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]mistressnaoko -- A wiki for the encyclopaedia, and an LJ comm for talking in
[info]mistressnaoko -- Would need to see how it was implemented

[info]omoisugoshi -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]omoisugoshi -- A wiki for the encyclopaedia, and an LJ comm for talking in
[info]omoisugoshi -- Would need to see how it was implemented

[info]shaysdays -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]shaysdays -- An LJ comm only
[info]shaysdays -- Would need to see how it was implemented

[info]timotab -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]timotab -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]timotab -- Would still be happy to play

[info]whomajigi -- Somewhat interested in playing.
[info]whomajigi -- Whatever everyone else is happy with
[info]whomajigi -- Would need to see how it was implemented