The web changes quickly, and often the records of old Nomics get lost in the shuffle. Quite a lot of creative effort went into these games; it would be a shame to lose them. Collected here are the documents from as many dead games as we have been able to find. Unfortunately, this is a only a fraction of the games Professor Suber has listed as having once had an Internet presence. If you have the records for a dead game not appearing below, we'd love to add it to the collection. Contact the webmaster for details. For each game archived below, either the owner of its pages has graciously granted us permission to mirror them here, or the owner was unreachable and the pages have been considered abandoned.
The following dead games are archived here:
- A Nomic: email-based, ran 2 October 2000–July 2001.
- Ackanomic: email-based, ran 22 January 1996–May 2000.
- Acronomic: email-based, ran 20 September–October 2003.
- Ancient Mystical Order Nomic Crucis: forum-based, ran ?–?.
- Autonomic: email-based with rulesets for each player; game I ran sometime prior to game II, which ran early Spring 1999.
- Axiom: email-based, minimal ruleset, ran 30 September 1998–September (?) 2000.
- BB Nomic: forum-based, ran 4 October–12 December 2000.
- Berserker Nomic: email-based, ran 12 March 1998–December 1999.
- BiNomic: email-based, ran ?–January ? 2001.
- Blind Nomic: email-based, rules known only to the moderator, ran April–June 1997.
- Blind Toby Nomic: email-based, modeled on Blind Nomic, ran ?–? 2001.
- CharNomic: email-based, ran March 1998–22 June 1998.
- CUGC Nomic: email-based; game 1 ran in 1998/9?, game 2 sometime thereafter.
- The Cult of Nomic: email-based, ran ?.
- The Curvature of the Earth is Overwhelmed by Local Noise Nomic: weblog-based, game one ran 29 January 2000–17 May 2000, game two ran 14 July 2000–1 June 2001.
- DDDnomic: ran January 2003.
- deNomic: email-based, ran January 1998–July 1999.
- DocNomic: email-based, imperial, ran 5 December 2000–1 October 2002.
- DragaNomic: a Nomic/D&D cross, ran ?–September 1997.
- EcoNomic: email-based, economic theme, ran ?–?.
- Eleusis Nomic: email-based, combined the game Eleusis with Nomic, ran August–November 1998.
- Fantasy Wargame Design Project: email-based, imperial, ran August–October? 1998.
- Fourplay: nomic/chess cross, started August 1997, currently active again.
- Future Nomic: email-based, ran 3 May 1996–January 1997.
- Garden Nomic: email-based, garden theme, ran ?–January (?) 1999.
- Genomic: email-based, ran 10 March–May 2000.
- GNomic: email-based, ran June 2000.
- Gnomic: forum-based, ran ?–?.
- ifMUD Nomic: email-based, ran 10 January–10 September 2003.
- IgNomic: email-based, ran January–November 2000
- Imperial Galactic Nog Nomic: email-based, ran 17 January 2002–February 2002.
- Imperial Nomic: a series of numbered games, all having an emperor:
- Infinity Nomic: email-based, ran ?.
- InterNomic: email-based, a meta-Nomic, ran ?–November (?) 1998.
- Jinx_tigr's Nomic: a ruleset.
- Legacy: a ruleset based on music composition.
- Legislative Noimc: email-based, ran 1–21 June 2001.
- LiveJournal Nomic: blog-based, ran 25 April 2001–19 March 2003.
- MacroNomic: email-based, formed by the combination of PNomic and MicroNomics I and II, ran 1 April 1998–September 1998.
- McNomic: forum-based, ran 7 January–April 2000.
- Mega-Ultra Plus: email-based, ran April–July 1999.
- Minic: email-based, minimal ruleset, ran ?–January 1996.
- Minty Nomic: email-based, ran ?.
- Misty's Nomic: email-based, ran 4 January–March 1998.
- Moderated Nomic: email-based, ran ?.
- Mornington Nomic: email-based, Mornington Crescent theme, ran April 1997–?.
- N_omic: email-based, ran 28 November 2000–June 2001, and again from 4 February 2002–April 2002.
- NeoNomicon: email-based, ran 9 January–April 1999.
- Net Waste of Time Nomic: email-based, ran ?–March (?) 1996.
- Newomic: fourm-based, ran 1 August 2002–November 2002.
- New Rishonnomic: email-based, ran November 1997–February 1999.
- NomiCam: email-based, ran ?–?.
- NomicICQ: ICQ-based, ran ?–?.
- Nomiclature: email-based; game I ran 28 October 1996–?; an attempt to reform the rules; game II ran 11 January 1999–?.
- Nomic-Game: email-based, ran Summer 1994.
- Nomic mit Tens: email-based?, ran Fall 1997?.
- Nomic Risk: forum-based, Risk-themed, ran 10 May–19 July 2004.
- Nomic World: MUD-based, first nomic on the Internet, had 130+ players, gave rise to numerous other games, ran 9 October 1992–April 1993.
- Nomopoly: two distinct series of board-game themed games:
- From Brian Tivol:
- From Jeff Yakel:
- Nomopoly I: email-based, ran 12 January–11 April 2004.
- Nomopoly II: email-based, ran 20 September 2004–13 March 2005.
- Nomopoly III: web-based, ran 9 April 2005–10 June 2005.
- Nomopoly IV: web-based, ran 14 May 2006–11 August 2006.
- Not Bob: email-based, ran May 2002.
- NPP Nomic: forum-based, ran Fall 1998–Summer 2000.
- Omeganomic: email-based, ran January–August 1999.
- Our Nomic:
- Our Nomic: email-based, ran February 2000–March 2002.
- OxNomic: newsgroup-based, ran in five gmes from 29 October 1996–4 May 1998.
- Paranomic: email-based, ran from 14 January 1999–March (?) 1999.
- PNomic: a ruleset.
- primal nomic: email-based, ran January–March 2003.
- Prism Nomic: forum-based, ran ?–?.
- Pumpkin Patch Nomic: email-based, ran from 1 January 1996–?.
- Pure Nomic: email-based with a minimal ruleset; game 1 ran 22 April–10 June 1998, game 2 ran 8 May–August 1998, game 3 ran 25 April–9 October 1998.
- Pure_Nomic: email-based, ran 21 November 2000–February 2003.
- Radio Free Nomic: email-based, ran 2 December 1998–?.
- Reponomic: email-based, ran ?–?.
- Rishonomic: email-based, ran ?–April 1999?.
- Scatterbrains: email-based, ran 12 December 2000–April 2001.
- Simplex: email-based, ran for four days in September 1998
- Socialnomic: email-based, ran 16 June–5 October 2000.
- Survivor Nomic: email-based, winner is last surviving player, ran May–July 2004.
- Tabula: email-based, ran December 1993–October 1995.
- Terra Nomic: email-based, ran 31 March–May ? 1999.
- ThermodyNomic: email-based, ran April 2002–July 2003.
- Three Rivers Nomic Association: email-based, ran ?–?.
- Thring Nomic: email-based, ran 1995?–1997?.
- Unanomic: email-based, ran pre-2000?. The ruleset can be found here.
- Unplugged Nomic: face-to-face?, ran 2 August 2000–?.
- Utopia: forum-based, ran ?–?.
- Valparaiso Nomic: ran Fall 1992–?
- WikiNomic: wiki-based, ran January 2001–2002.
NB: We have attempted to normalize all links in the archives relative to this site. However, it is possible—nay, likely—that 1) we missed some, and 2) off-site links no longer work. If the former is the case (or anything else is horribly broken, misplaced, etc.) please let us know.