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Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by ncr100 »

Question for the developer, have you played the Playstation video game Journey?

The spoiler about it is, that while you adventure from one end of the land to another, and you encounter other sort of people looking players, it turns out that those are actually people and, at the end of the game you get a credits roll list with the PlayStation Network handles for each of the players that you encountered. There is no communication other than moving your character. It's delightful.

Anyhow, that subtle engagement is in my opinion quite valuable.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by cauenapier »

ncr100 wrote: post #41

Question for the developer, have you played the Playstation video game Journey? The spoiler about it is, that while you adventure from one end of the land to another, and you encounter other sort of people looking players, it turns out that those are actually people and, at the end of the game you get a credits roll list with the PlayStation Network handles for each of the players that you encountered. There is no co…

Noo...I never played it and didn't know about it! I'll check it out.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by cauenapier »

freak42 wrote: post #40

There are 6 (!) posts about this in the last 15 days, can we not let it rest a bit?

I swear I have nothing to do with it... :sweat Specially because they get lot's of attention specially when I can't be on the computer and I lose all the fun!

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by thomastjeffery »

cauenapier wrote: post #35
thomastjeffery wrote: post #8

Fun! People in a town square still have identities. They are just likely to not know each other. I think this is a significant part of a great idea. What it, and most/all other communication software is missing, is the ability to continue a conversation into a new context. It would be great to move a convo from the public square into a shop, then maybe share contact info to get together another day.

That is actualy giving some interesting ideas. I'm now thinking about permanent identities across websites, as well as some "rooms" where you can enter to have a chat... I'll need to think this through. I don;t want to overcomplicate the project...Part of charm is the simplicity.

An identity doesn't need to be more than a public gpg key. Anything else is just what they (or anyone, really) say about themselves relative to a given subject.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by linsomniac »

Oh, my sweet summer child...

Really cool idea that I'd be reluctant to enable for any of my sites because I assume that it would just be used for people to be awful.

Maybe I'm just still traumatized by Playstation Home? A group of my friends all got Playstation 3s together, and we all decided to try Playstation Home, a town square for people to meet. The group met up and then spent the next few minutes being accosted by one a-hole after another.

Or maybe it's the github issue I had to delete today because of someone being a big, giant jerk.

TBF: I went to this town square and people were civilized, so maybe there is some hope for humanity. ;-)

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by cauenapier »

linsomniac wrote: post #46

Oh, my sweet summer child... Really cool idea that I'd be reluctant to enable for any of my sites because I assume that it would just be used for people to be awful. Maybe I'm just still traumatized by Playstation Home? A group of my friends all got Playstation 3s together, and we all decided to try Playstation Home, a town square for people to meet. The group met up and then spent the next few minutes being accosted…

I still hope for humanity :) I believe in it! We just neeed to ignore the idiot ones that just want to draw attention to them selves.

Anyway...Right now it's just crowded because of the Hn post. But usually it's much calmer, friendlier and interesting. I've already had a lot of interesting conversation there :)

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by acrophiliac »

Personally, all the animations of stick figures moving and jumping is slightly annoying and offers little valuable information. I might enjoy something like showing a person's national flag (for where they are logged in from), or a timer for how long they've been on the site. Instead of the "street" metaphor for the graphic (benches, trees), maybe a Mercator Projection that locates an emoji at each person's location.

Re: Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other

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Post by bix6 »

Schiendelman wrote: post #22
xuhu wrote: post #12

I hope sites that just provide a way for people to assemble offline will be the new thing soon. A photography guide's site that rallies amateurs for walk tours. A planning board for a foreign language practice group. A site with a schedule and registration form for a sports event. When I read "online social" my head thinks "not-really social".

I'm working on a game that helps with this. You leave your little bunker in a post-apocalyptic world and find the land around you contaminated. You walk, run, any workout, to claim territory around you, and gain energy you can use to clean up. You start building greenhouses to grow food and start rebuilding the ecosystem. It's all on the real world map underneath you, and all the interactions between people in the ga…

Link if I want to stay updated? Sounds cool
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