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2 April, 2008
Itty Bitty RPG
I'm fascinated with games merging with productivity systems and general life online. Of course, I'm not the only one; I just found this ACM paper: "Out of the video arcade, into the office: where computer games can lead productivity software, and this post from March of 2006, "Passive Web Gaming: My New Passion" by M3mnoch.
This flurry of activity should result in a lot more games that we can play without launching big client softwares and signing up for demanding commitments. Appropriately, veteran web developer Andrew Wooldridge has designed a system for embedding bits of fantasy role-playing across web sites. Web masters become game masters, and surfers become players. Something I look forward to implementing with Passively Multiplayer!
Andrew calls his project "Itty Bitty RPG." It's a glimpse of web wide play; right now the gameplay and objects are localized to each site. Andrew says he's working on a way to securely allow people to carry their characters around the web as they surf. Itty Bitty Multiplayer! He's released the entire project-in-progress as open source and there's a discussion group and code repository online. You could install an itty bitty RPG on your pages right now! Wow.
Posted by justin at February 9, 2007 2:55 PM
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