Game of Life – January 2010 Ideas
The twenty-first idea for my 365 social ideas is another gaming idea: create a set of classic flash-based games along the lines of break-out, tetris etc, but integrate a simple storyline with good and bad characters, places and items involved and make these configurable. You could through this create a game of your own life by inserting persons from your surroundings, places where you meet, stuff that you work with etc. and you could send this game to your friends and family and they could then play out the big game of your life.
This is still fairly simple, but then imagine automatic integration with social networks, so you simply connect via Facebook, Twitter or any other interesting friendship services and you can pick between your friends, recent updates etc. and it would automatically try to create this game.
Or what about having it automatically parse articles etc. for creating games about anything. Say this blogpost – it would automatically recognize names of persons, places and interactable items and then generate the game. It could be used for all sorts of fun things and the great thing would be, that anything could happen. You could re-enact Obama’s presidential campaign victory, the Algerian War or Romeo and Juliet – simply by using the right characters, places and items combined with the right storyline.
Why?
Because it is fun. And putting news and other items in a new perspective adds to the fun of information sharing. Plus, having fun with your friends and family the same way would be an added benefit.
What’s next?
Do with this idea whatever you like – expand, implement, trash or forget. Just remember, that if you use it in anyway make sure to attribute me according to the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, that all these 365 Social Ideas are published under.
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