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I love those kind of "get together and improvise" experiments. The last time I had felt such a sense of wonder and community was the first few days of Pokemon G
by Raphmedia 10y ago
I love those kind of "get together and improvise" experiments. The last time I had felt such a sense of wonder and community was the first few days of Pokemon Go when everyone was in the street trying to figure it out.
There's an untapped concept behind all of those. Content that is ephemeral but brings a lot of people together...
- camtarn 10y agoI guess that's what a lot of Alternate Reality Games try and tap into - the shared joy of figuring out something interesting and strange, sometimes with ties to the real world. I remember reading about the I Love Bees ARG, with its GPS coordinates for payphones (which turned out to be a promo for Halo 2!) and wishing I'd been able to be a part of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_Bees
- chillacy 10y agoA really great radiolab on the subject is their episode on Emergence: http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/ http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/ That's what /r/place was like in the first few hours, where people saw a pattern and just laid their pixel down to continue it, which is how you got things like a blue line (accelerating as time went on) and the blue corner. You as a contributor don't know what you're building, but as a group you build something. Later as communities started planning and running scripts, it became much less "improv"-y.
- Raphmedia 10y ago"Emergence"! Thank you for the word. I was looking for it!