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Ambition and Ludic are oddball concepts which inherently can't ever get mainstream appeal. Interesting. Explain. It's very cool to talk to someone who has hear
by pw0ncakes 17y ago
Ambition and Ludic are oddball concepts which inherently can't ever get mainstream appeal.
Interesting. Explain. It's very cool to talk to someone who has heard of these games.
I think this may true of Ludic, since it effectively uses a function as a game object (it's a card game that steps into higher-order function territory). What about Ambition? On the surface, it just seems like a somewhat more complicated than average trick-taking game.
- bramcohen 17y agoAmbition I had to look up, Ludic I already knew. The short explanation is that both of them have way too much potential for collusion, malicious or not, to really work as serious tournament games.
- pw0ncakes 17y agoLudic is more of a concept game. How would collusion work in Ambition? I tend to agree that neither would make a good tournament game. Ludic for the reason stated above; if you're going to introduce something "second-order" as a game variable, you need to contain it. Ambition because it's a 4-player game without teams, and most of the tournament games tend to be either 2-party (Chess, Go, or Bridge, the latter being a contest between two teams) or have a 1-vs.-N flavor like Poker. Ambition seems to have the Puerto Rico property of being very solid against certain kinds of annoying luck, but having a strong table-position element.