[arg_discuss] War of the Worlds 2 on Twitter

[David Fono]

Very cool project.

We've recently been running a Twitter-based game with a lightweight  
story distributed within direct messages shared by players and  
characters: http://www.edgaroftheweb.com

Cheers,
David

On 3-Nov-08, at 12:00 AM, arg_discuss-request at igda.org wrote:


> Some of you may have seen a twitter-storm over the past two days about

> a Martian invasion.  It was part a distributed real-time re-telling of

> War of the Worlds, which took place mostly on Twitter but also

> incorporated blogs, photos and video.  You can find the main stream of

> events here:

>  <http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wotw2>

>

> In finished up last night at midnight, Los Angeles time. I'm still

> gathering my thoughts about it, but I have to say it was the most fun

> I've had as part of an online media experience since The Beast.

>

> It was organized by a fellow named Kris Kowal:

> <http://askawizard.blogspot.com/2008/10/war-of-worlds-20.html

>>

> And here's a nice overview written just after it ended, by a friend of

> mine: <http://heavylittleobjects.com/?p=991>

>

>

> And (if I may plug myself), this week's Christian Science Monitor

> quotes me in a piece about using Twitter as a storytelling engine --

> on the same week they announce that they will no longer be publishing

> the print edition.

>

> -Jay

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