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

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

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Post by Schiendelman »

bix6 wrote: post #50
Schiendelman wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Faster than I thought! Here's a link: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co

Note that the walkthrough system is very new and finicky, and I'm rewriting AI slop copy by hand as I get farther through the story. I update on average more than once a day. Have a look, and feel free to email ben@yourstrategy.co if you have questions or feedback, I'd love it!

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

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Post by Schiendelman »

jxf wrote: post #83
Schiendelman wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Ping me when you're ready for Android/web users :)

Faster than I thought! Here's a link: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co

Note that the walkthrough system is very new and finicky, and I'm rewriting AI slop copy by hand as I get farther through the story. I update on average more than once a day. Have a look, and feel free to email ben@yourstrategy.co if you have questions or feedback, I'd love it!

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

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Post by Schiendelman »

brody_hamer wrote: post #63
Schiendelman wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

This sounds awesome! I’d love to playtest it when you’re ready.

Faster than I thought! Here's a link: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co

Note that the walkthrough system is very new and finicky, and I'm rewriting AI slop copy by hand as I get farther through the story. I update on average more than once a day. Have a look, and feel free to email ben@yourstrategy.co if you have questions or feedback, I'd love it!

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

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Post by brody_hamer »

Schiendelman wrote: post #143
brody_hamer wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This sounds awesome! I’d love to playtest it when you’re ready.

Faster than I thought! Here's a link: https://reverdure.yourstrategy.co Note that the walkthrough system is very new and finicky, and I'm rewriting AI slop copy by hand as I get farther through the story. I update on average more than once a day. Have a look, and feel free to email ben@yourstrategy.co if you have questions or feedback, I'd love it!

Nice! I’ll check it out. Congrats on the soft launch!

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

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Post by bossyTeacher »

mathgeek wrote: post #105
graypegg wrote: post #5

> The goal wasn't to build another social network. > It was to bring back a small feeling that the web used to have: the sense that there are actual people on the other side of the screen. > Town Square is intentionally tiny and forgetful. There are no accounts, no profiles, no follower counts, no permanent chat history. Messages exist only while people are there to read them. Cute idea! But maybe this is just me hav…

> they would anyway because they’re building up a persona While I’m sure some folks were doing it for that reason, there are a whole bunch of us who were just doing things like that because it was fun. We didn’t need to be popular (but that would have been nice too), we were just kids looking for a community where we fit in. The Internet back then was a grab bag, a hodge podge, a diaspora, and a most importantly a pl…

> The Internet back then was a grab bag, a hodge podge, a diaspora, and a most importantly a place to be who you wanted to be instead of a place where your “real” identity followed you everywhere.

Exactly. This is what made the Internet back then. Ironically, we have now done a reversal and the real world is the way to escape

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

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Post by ncr100 »

cauenapier wrote: post #42
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.

At the time it was a beautiful experience. I speculate player population may be low or zero now.

Maybe watching a playthrough from that era would be an alternate good experience too.

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