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PMOG: the Passively Multiplayer Online Game

ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
edited February 2008 in Games and Technology
PMOG is an interesting little game, and rather than try to explain the concept I'll quote the website:
PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency. A battle between Order and Chaos rages online, between people tagging and people spamming; this game gives people the weapons they need to wage that war in real-time in their browsers.

This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement. Player behavior generates characters and alliances, triggers interactions in the environment, and earns the player points to spend online beefing up their inventory. Suddenly the internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but a hackable, rewarding environment.

PMOG is a Firefox extension, a free plug-in for the popular web browser. The extension follows players as they surf the web, sending game data to the pmog.com server. There, our Ruby on Rails backend parses player profiles and rules to encourage playful annotation of the web at large. The items, missions and traps are embedded on URLs and revealed to the player as they surf.

And example of something you might see in the "game:"
[...] the "St. Nick" - one player attaches it to another player; if the second player does a malicious online deed, the St. Nick will prevent them from their evil deed and trigger instead an adverse reaction. Think of it as a revenge tool for good-natured people.

Unfortunately, it's only in beta phase, but you can sign up here. You can keep an eye on development on the main PMOG site, as well as this one. Hopefully, when the game comes out, we can establish a PA community. I imagine that just on these forums themselves we could have a lot of fun.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Man, you couldn't put at the top that its not out yet?

    I got all excited, then disappointed

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    This sounds like a exceptionally cool idea, except for the part where it'll be sending data about my Internet usage to a bunch of total strangers. But if it can be turned on/off at will I am so up for it.

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  • No more Mr. Nice GuyNo more Mr. Nice Guy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited February 2008
    Will probably be used for advertising.

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  • BamelinBamelin Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I think it sounds neat in concept, but it also has the potential to suck horribly on implementation. I'm intriqued by the idea though.

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  • TeriferinTeriferin Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I'm trying the Beta right now. It puts a little status bar at the bottom of the screen that can be hidden with a click, and you can sign out at any time, which I would assume would prevent data from being sent.

    I'm not really sure what I'm doing yet, though.

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  • KaosMitchKaosMitch Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Raslin wrote: »
    Man, you couldn't put at the top that its not out yet?

    I got all excited, then disappointed

    You can sign up for beta... I signed up, cool concept.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Hey, I should have held my tounge. Already got in the beta!

    signing up now

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    This sounds real cool.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    :/

    Lags firefox real bad every once in a while(like, for a few seconds... but its getting better)

    Also, have no idea what to do

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  • Ross MillsRoss Mills Mr. California, USARegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Does anyone want an invite?

    I have two. ^_^

    Then those people can invite.

    Then THOSE people can invite.

    You can see where I'm going with this.

    You're going to need to PM me an email address.

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  • MalkorMalkor Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    'vite me! So I can see what's up and invite anyone else.

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  • FedarionFedarion Registered User new member
    edited February 2008
    Ross Mills wrote: »
    Does anyone want an invite?.
    Oooh, please.

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  • Ross MillsRoss Mills Mr. California, USARegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Well it looks like I might have more than two after all.

    If anyone else is interested, just shout and I'll sign them up.

    I don't think you can invite in the first week of play, so I'd be happy to bring people in until then.

    You're going to need to PM me an email address.

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  • FrostozunaFrostozuna Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Send one my way if you have one :)

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  • The DeliveratorThe Deliverator Slingin Pies The California BurbclavesRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I would like an invite plz.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I would forget to turn it off and everyone would discover what porn I like to look at.

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  • Smug DucklingSmug Duckling Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Does it actually publish what sites you go to for all the world to see?

    D:

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  • Ross MillsRoss Mills Mr. California, USARegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    You're going to need to PM me an email address.

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  • MundaneSoulMundaneSoul fight fighter Daehan MingukRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I'm definitely interested in joining.

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  • JamesDMJamesDM Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Can someone send me an invite?

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  • HylianbunnyHylianbunny Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Sure, I wouldn't mind giving it a shot.

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  • DracilDracil Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Sounds cool in concept, but I'm a little suspicious that it's not a keylogger in disguise.

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  • Last SonLast Son Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Does it actually publish what sites you go to for all the world to see?

    D:

    No, I'm sure it does store them somewhere(since you only get points for visiting a website the first time each day) but its not available to view as far as I know.

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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I'm going to stick to progress quest and folding at home.

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  • Crimson KingCrimson King Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I would forget to turn it off and everyone would discover what porn I like to look at.

    Naked orange-haired cartoon babes, by any chance? Ones that don't need salt?

    I'm gonna wait for some feedback on this before signing up. Once I'm reasonably assured it's at least worth an install and won't broadcast my, um, tastes in erotica to the world, I'll give it a go.

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  • Ross MillsRoss Mills Mr. California, USARegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Last Son wrote: »
    Does it actually publish what sites you go to for all the world to see?

    D:

    No, I'm sure it does store them somewhere(since you only get points for visiting a website the first time each day) but its not available to view as far as I know.

    From what they say, they do store them but delete them every (week/month, I can't remember exactly). This is only to stop you spamming the same sites for currency.

    Invites sent. Enjoy!

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  • jothkijothki Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Wouldn't this be absurdly easy to bot with?

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  • expendableexpendable Silly Goose Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    jothki wrote: »
    Wouldn't this be absurdly easy to bot with?

    Just obsessively click the "Stumble" button.

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  • Sharp101Sharp101 TorontoRegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I wouldn't mind checking this out.

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  • EvilBadmanEvilBadman DO NOT TRUST THIS MAN Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    So, how is this a passive game if you do things like "bomb each other, wage war over web sites" and the core game relies on you to surf the internet to accumulate wealth? Seems like an activity.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    expendable wrote: »
    jothki wrote: »
    Wouldn't this be absurdly easy to bot with?

    Just obsessively click the "Stumble" button.

    I don't think it's actually supposed to be really balanced or anything, it's just something fun to do while browsing the web.

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  • INeedNoSaltINeedNoSalt with blood on my teeth Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    I would forget to turn it off and everyone would discover what porn I like to look at.

    Naked orange-haired cartoon babes, by any chance? Ones that don't need salt?

    I'm gonna wait for some feedback on this before signing up. Once I'm reasonably assured it's at least worth an install and won't broadcast my, um, tastes in erotica to the world, I'll give it a go.

    more or less

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  • zanmattozanmatto Registered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Invite please? If you don't ill cry.

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  • Ross MillsRoss Mills Mr. California, USARegistered User regular
    edited February 2008
    Goddamn Zanmatto, read the thread. PM me. If you don't ill cry.
    EvilBadman wrote: »
    So, how is this a passive game if you do things like "bomb each other, wage war over web sites" and the core game relies on you to surf the internet to accumulate wealth? Seems like an activity.

    You're levelling while doing something that you would usually do anyway. The interaction can be as minimal as you want. I think you need to do a total of about 25 missions to get to maximum level, each taking at most a minute each and are basically browsing the internet in themselves.

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