Glass Bead Game playable variants

"GlassBeadGame PlayableVariant" is Charles_Cameron?'s term for an attempt to realise the GlassBeadGame in the real world in a playable way. One might think of a playable variant as "a glass bead game" (or gbg) rather than "the Glass Bead Game" (or GBG, which depending on viewpoint is either a fictional construct from TheNovel or an unattainable ideal or both).

Here are some PlayableVariant``s accessible on the Internet:

• DigitalBeadGame: A recent, computer-mediated playable variant.
• GlassPlateGame: One of the earliest known playable variants, designed by Dunbar_Aitkens? -- "a conversation in the trappings of a board game".
• HipBone: Charles_Cameron?'s HipBone Games are probably the most popular gbg on the Internet.
• Intrachange: A gbg by William_Horden? based on correspondences between the 64 hexagrams of the I Ching and the 64 squares of a chessboard.
• Kennexions: designed by Ron_Hale-Evans?, Kennexions is based on the Norse poetic form called the Kenning?, among other things.
• LudusSollemnis: A gbg by Terence_MacNamee? based on liturgical drama.
• Toward the Glass Bead Game: Fascinating gbg by Joshua_Fost? that uses XML and the SemanticWeb? (also an ambition of Kennexions).
• WaldzellGbg: The Waldzell GlassBeadGame, designed by Mark_Line?, takes an analytical approach.

See also BambooGarden for Seattle's original gbg design community.

Related Projects

• DominoBeadGame: A competitive domino game by Sid_Sackson?, inspired by TheNovel.
• OrganicPoetry: Like Scrabble, with words, not letters, and associations linking them.

Discussion

I'm not a GBG person, so I don't know how to interpret this. But, I recently saw this link to 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)]]