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  • Civ 3 democracy

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    The Apolyton Civilization 3 Democracy Game. This combines two of my gaming loves – Civ3, and mmoe. The premise is that over one hundred people are democratically playing a game of Civilization 3, electing a cabinet, detailing a constitution, forming numerous political parties and even newspapers. It sounds a little far-fetched but at only 14…

  • CD.org

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    Collective Detective is set to be an subscription-based community website that will host areas dedicated to different alternate reality games/mmoes. Developed by players of Microsoft’s AI game, it will be released in early July and it has an impressive featureset geared towards making discussion and playing of games as easy as possible. It should be…

  • Princess Bride

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    Just finished reading The Princess Bride. What a wonderful book! Extremely funny, romantic, adventurous, dashing, with enough sorrow and cynicism to balance it out. I don’t think I’ve read a fantasy story like it anywhere else. It makes me wonder whether this type of story can be adapted for alternate reality games/mmoes. I suspect that…

  • Thread on VPmusic

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    I’m currently running a discussion about the best way to start an mmoe/alternate reality game over at a set of forums – there’s some interesting stuff being said.

  • Spooks Yahoo

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    Someone has set up a Spooks YahooGroup to discuss the game. Amusingly, I can recognise least three of the twenty-two current members as Cloudmakers veterans.

  • Unfiction

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    Hello to all Metafiltrians! If you’re interested in massively multiuser online entertainment and would like to read more on the subject, here are some handy links: The Cloudmakers website, dedicated to the Microsoft AI web marketing campaign. Jawbreakers, a good introduction site to the first successful independent attempt at mmoes called Lockjaw. Unfiction.com, a general…

  • Lockjaw

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    Lockjaw has finished! The second ever successful mmoe has come to a close – you can learn more about it here. This is an extremely impressive achievement when you consider that it was produced entirely by volunteers.

  • Lockjaw puzzle

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    An absolutely classic recounting of how players of the mmoe Lockjaw managed to spend 20 days of horror trying to solve a single puzzle. If you want to get an insight into the mind of a die-hard mmoe puzzle-solver, there’s no better account than this.

  • MMOE-TV

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    Just uploaded the new mmoe-TV article which I’ve been working on intermittently during breaks in revision. Turned out longer than I expected, but I’m reasonably pleased with it.

  • I Want My MMOE-TV!

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    How can mmoes interact with the TV medium, and what are the risks and benefits? This article looks at past mmoe-TV attempts including Alias, as well as the current (at time of writing) BBC series The Spooks.