2 April, 2008
Playing PMOG - Again
I had a ton of fun brainstorming, making and testing a game called PMOG with folks in the USC IMD. PMOG was my MFA thesis project - an MMO game built around surfing the web: your web trail evolved a personal profile and gave you tools to prank or guide people online.
I graduated in May 2007. I'd been working with two other folks on my thesis, Merci Hammon and Duncan Gough. The three of us formed a company called GameLayers. We were able to get an investment in the Fall, and since then we've been bent over our computers evolving this vision for web fun.
We've taken PMOG from of being a sidebar and instead we've made a sort of lightweight HUD, in the form of a toolbar that sits at the bottom of your Firefox browser. So it takes up less screen space, disappears easily, and hopefully feels like a ready way to have fun during a day online.
Finally in January we started beta testing. And there's a few IMD folks in there already - testing the play boundaries, trying everything once, and giving good feedback. Much obliged!
I comb our beta registration logs for @usc email addresses, but some folks in the IMD use GMail, etc. If you're interested in playing and you haven't gotten an invite, sign up on pmog.com and drop me a line! justin at gamelayers d0tcom :-D I'd love to hear what you think.
Posted by justin at February 3, 2008 6:23 PM
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