2024-05-30 01:26:41 +00:00
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# 9mm
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Introducing:
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Nine Mens Morris
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The Game
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A game about moving cows
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Featuring:
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Fennel
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The Language
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By:
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dozens
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the human
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## ABOUT
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Do you know what Nine Mens Morris looks like?
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It has three concentric rings, each containing eight spaces.
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Here's what it looks like:
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```
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1-----2-----3
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| 4---5---6 |
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| | 7-8-9 | |
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0-1-2 3-4-5 +10
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| | 6-7-8 | |
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| 9---0---1 | +20
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2-----3-----4
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```
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## BACKGROUND
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2024-06-26 03:22:35 +00:00
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Nine Mens Morris is legit a great game,
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and I like it a lot.
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2024-05-30 01:26:41 +00:00
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One time i wrote an essay about the social contract implicit to nine mens morris:
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https://write.tildeverse.org/dozens/nine-mens-morris-cultural-meanings-and-social-contracts
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Kind of obsessed with this variation about COWS
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morabaraba
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also look at these round cows
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_cow
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2024-06-26 03:22:35 +00:00
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## USAGE
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1. If you have fennel installed,
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run `fennel main.fnl`
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2. If you have fennel installed,
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you can compile a binary
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using `fennel --compile-binary`.
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(See `justfile` for an example of how I do it.)
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