At a seminar on Telenor on Monday, Masaaki Ito from the University of Tokyo's Mell project presented the Cambrian games. An idea by Toshihiro Anzai and Rieko Nakamura, the games are based on the Japanese Renga tradition. As far as I understood, renga is a Japanese game with a five-hundred year tradition, where the players improvise a poem together. One player makes a line according to a familiar scheme of syllables, and then another player adds a line to this.
The Cambrian games does this with images. An artist makes an image, and some other person takes this as the basis for a new image. The cambrian system makes wonderful maps of the development, as in this map of the 2003 New Year's game.
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