GBG-List: General Information

Last modified: Sat 1/3/97 0315 PST

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Charter

The subject of GBG-List is the concretization of the game described in Hermann Hesse's novel, Das Glasperlenspiel. Concretization, in this context, refers to the design of game forms which are sufficiently specified that they are playable by one or more persons. Of particular interest, of course, is the particular concretization known as the Waldzell Glass Bead Game, but discussion is not limited to that approach.

Discussion on GBG-List may include anything that may be of interest to those currently engaged in the design of concretized forms of the Glass Bead Game, to players of such game forms, or to those interested generally in Hesse's idea and its further exploration, from any perspective, with a view to concretization. Some of the major topics that can be expected include:

• Hesse's description of the game in the novel itself;
• corroborating information about Hesse's ideas from any source;
• the design of the Waldzell Game and other concretizations;
• organizational and logistical information of relevance to list subscribers, including arrangements for face-to-face meetings or online games;
• actual games played on the list, in view of (and presumably subject to friendly kibitzing by) subscribers to the list;
• back-room discussion relating to the collaborative construction and maintenance of this website (and its eventual metastases in other people's webspace).

GBG-List is a completely public mailing list. This means that anybody with an interest in the Waldzell Game or in concretization of Hesse's game may subscribe and participate.

The Horse's Mouth

This list is owned by Mark P. Line, operating from his home in Bellevue, Washington, USA. You can contact him about anything, but especially about gbg-list, by email at <waldzell@pair.com>.