Comments on: Games of Hunger https://www.amplab.ca/2015/09/23/games-of-hunger/ between media & literature Thu, 26 Nov 2015 16:20:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.5 By: Tom Lecercle https://www.amplab.ca/2015/09/23/games-of-hunger/#comment-168 Fri, 25 Sep 2015 01:01:56 +0000 https://www.amplab.ca/?p=4216#comment-168 Yes! I had completely forgotten the term but it is exactly what I meant to express.
If Hunger Games maps are all about individual survival and even domination, I think that the tragedy of the commons is interestingly contrasting what the term ”survival” encompasses, tying back with both Battle Royal and Hunger Games as books/movies.

]]> By: Patrick Grace https://www.amplab.ca/2015/09/23/games-of-hunger/#comment-166 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 16:35:36 +0000 https://www.amplab.ca/?p=4216#comment-166 I find it interesting that you are in a sense proposing that we test to see if a microcosm of humanity is capable of subverting the tragedy of the commons. The tragedy of the commons denotes ” a situation where individuals acting independently and rationally according to each’s self-interest behave contrary to the best interests of the whole group by depleting some common resource” and is one of the many paradoxes of human behaviour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons

Will people play defensively, using a scorched earth policy to negate others from using resources, or will Tributes cooperate and take measures toward sustainability of the commons, thus giving everyone a greater chance for survival? The inclusion of a collective action problem would provide an interesting “opponent” to Tributes otherwise only interested in defeating each other to win.

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