FluxxTabletop Tuesdays: Nomic in Cards | Submitted by costik on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 14:54. |
Looney Labs claims to have sold more than 350,000 copies of Fluxx, which is a truly remarkable number for a hobby game from a tiny publisher -- remarkable also because Fluxx is in some ways a game designer's game, exploring the nature of "the rule."
In a sense, Fluxx is a stripped down version of Nomic -- a self-modifying game with a small initial set of rules and the ability to change them. Nomic depends on player voting; Fluxx depends on card-play.
When you see the timer come on at thirty seconds, instead of the square minute the original gave to escape the doomed space colony, you know you aren't in fucking Kansas anymore. Then you touch down on Zebes, and you're not even in Oz. You're in a crazy, spawling nightmare landscape, a mad alteration of the Super Metroid ROM. This is a Bizarro world my friends, a place where items are strange and newly hidden, where pacing is made, not given, where wall jumps are expected for mere navigation. Then there's all the super-advanced moves, things not even composited from programmed moves of the original, but glitches, glitches, that you must use in order to get an energy tank, or another super missile.
