Would you play a Twitter-based game

[Azbic]

The title says it all really but I'm wondering what you guys think about the concept; the basic idea being you tweet and this affects your character in the game.

I'm not sure how extensively people have looked into this beyond 'RT and win a tablet!!' which seems very limited and uncreative. So would you participate or would you be too worried about relating your account with a game (even if it were just a one-off thing)?

Also if you're awesome and a Twitter user you'd be doing me a huge favour by filling this out: http://fetimo.com/survey everything's optional so you can do as much or as little as you like!

[Yhtomit]

So, it'd be like a tabletop roleplay game, but done on Twitter? Sounds like an interesting concept...

[Love]

I hate Twitter, so probably not.

[LiquidFire]

It could be fun. I would try it out.

[BasedBubbus]

so like..you tweet and whatever you tweet your character does it?

im lost.

[WaterShake]

I know that if I was following people that started tweeting shit like "pick up the goblet of strength and use health potion" they'd probably get a prompt unfollow.

Twitter isn't a social network in the same sense of Facebook, Google+, Unthink, Myspace, Bebo or any of those other profile based platforms are; it's rapidly becoming a media tool.

[Kaneda-X]

Why?

[STEM]

There are already tons of twitter games available, and I can't think of one that made it big. From tower defense (Tweet Defense) to RPGs (Snods) to even chess, they're plentiful and most of them not worth more than 5 minutes of play. If you plan to redefine the twitter game genre, you should certainly research past games and why they failed to capture attention

[Azbic]

At 10/26/11 12:53 PM, Yhtomit wrote: So, it'd be like a tabletop roleplay game, but done on Twitter? Sounds like an interesting concept...

At 10/26/11 04:09 PM, MiloBased wrote: so like..you tweet and whatever you tweet your character does it? im lost.

At 10/26/11 04:16 PM, WaterShake wrote: I know that if I was following people that started tweeting shit like "pick up the goblet of strength and use health potion" they'd probably get a prompt unfollow.

Twitter isn't a social network in the same sense of Facebook, Google+, Unthink, Myspace, Bebo or any of those other profile based platforms are; it's rapidly becoming a media tool.

Tweets wouldn't be directly related to what the character does, my idea is that you create a character initially with a simple hashtag. After that, you can 'bind' your account to the character so that whatever you tweet subtly influences their behaviour. Perhaps the more you tweet, or the happier the things you tweet are, gives them more xp to be used against others. I hope that makes it a little clearer without giving my whole idea away :)

At 10/26/11 04:23 PM, STEM wrote: There are already tons of twitter games available, and I can't think of one that made it big. From tower defense (Tweet Defense) to RPGs (Snods) to even chess, they're plentiful and most of them not worth more than 5 minutes of play. If you plan to redefine the twitter game genre, you should certainly research past games and why they failed to capture attention

STEM, you raise some very good points, I haven't heard of those specific ones but I'm aware of others like 140 Blood, Whose Tweet?, Twitbrain etc. so I'll give those a look into. You've also hit the nail on the head with "they're plentiful and most of them not worth more than 5 minutes of play", my strategy was to use evolution and a changing environment as hooks into it.

Thanks for the replies so far! You guys are very helpful :)

[BasedBubbus]

At 10/26/11 04:49 PM, Azbic wrote:

Tweets wouldn't be directly related to what the character does, my idea is that you create a character initially with a simple hashtag. After that, you can 'bind' your account to the character so that whatever you tweet subtly influences their behaviour. Perhaps the more you tweet, or the happier the things you tweet are, gives them more xp to be used against others. I hope that makes it a little clearer without giving my whole idea away :)

If people start tweeting even more than they do now, and on top of that a whole bunch more "hey look at my new shoes im happy" crap, i will personally start a boycott against twitter and your game.

[masheenH3ad]

Not a bad idea. You should go on with it.

[Timchik]

At 10/26/11 01:01 PM, Hybridization wrote: I dislike Twitter, so probably not.

Fixed.

[Dromedary]

At 10/26/11 07:06 PM, Timchik wrote:

At 10/26/11 01:01 PM, Hybridization wrote: I dislike Twitter, so probably not.

Fixed.

You're a fucking shit poster, you know that?