1. Intergame Protocol for Glass Bead Game Playable Variants
At first I thought Kennexions should incorporate a GlassBeadGame ?PatternLanguage. Then I thought I was confusing the levels of play. Now I realise that any "real" GBG (sufficiently powerful PlayableVariant) must be comprehensive enough to represent data from other GBG ?GameForms. Remember Hesse: the world is your palette. Here's a typical Kennexions ?KenningAnalogy, taken from the following quote from TheNovel:
-
The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette. All the insights, noble thoughts, and works of art that the human race has produced in its creative eras, all that subsequent periods of scholarly study have reduced to concepts and converted into intellectual values the Glass Bead Game player plays like the organist on an organ. And this organ has attained an almost unimaginable perfection; its manuals and pedals range over the entire intellectual cosmos; its stops are almost beyond number.
GBG player painter ---------- :: ------- culture palette GBG player = culture painter culture = the GBG player's palette painter = palette GBG player palette = the painter's culture
The same kind of thing can be done with Hesse's quote about the organist, by saying that
painter organist ------- :: -------- palette organ
Put them all together and you have the beginnings of a TableOfCorrespondences, or what ?DouglasHofstadter calls a ?CentralDogmap:
GBG player painter organist ---------- :: ------- :: -------- culture palette organ
This is an example of the GlassBeadGame becoming self-conscious, "thinking" about itself, as hinted at in TheNovel.
I'm not insisting that Kennexions should be the intergame "glue", but it should be flexible enough to represent games from other gameforms, even as individual "beads". For example, every game of HipBone should be assigned its own ?UniversallyUniqueIdentifier.
Any book with its own ISBN number should receive a UUID as well.
Kennexions UUID space should be separate from the rest of UUID space, of course.
