A use for twitter, who knew!
Echo Bazaar: http://echobazaar.failbettergames.com/
Join me in Fallen London :) So far I would have to say this is GOOD game design.
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Interestingly a friend who uses twitter ranted at me about how terrible this game is because it's all she sees in her twitter feed at the moment. This is ironic as the game goes out of it's way NOT to reward players for spamming twitter. It never prompts you to tweet, and you only gain a benefit from tweeting once a day. But there is a link below all of the text in the game in case you want to share it... and it's all just so cool that people are posting it like mad.
Seriously though, the game is pretty neat. And the guys behind it are total narrative theory nerds
http://blog.failbettergames.com/post/Echo-Bazaar-Narrative-Structures-part-one.aspx
Join me in Fallen London :) So far I would have to say this is GOOD game design.
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Interestingly a friend who uses twitter ranted at me about how terrible this game is because it's all she sees in her twitter feed at the moment. This is ironic as the game goes out of it's way NOT to reward players for spamming twitter. It never prompts you to tweet, and you only gain a benefit from tweeting once a day. But there is a link below all of the text in the game in case you want to share it... and it's all just so cool that people are posting it like mad.
Seriously though, the game is pretty neat. And the guys behind it are total narrative theory nerds
http://blog.failbettergames.com/post/Echo-Bazaar-Narrative-Structures-part-one.aspx