Developing or playing in 1 world? In school I remember finding project files students in the past had left on the servers. Mostly like digital art files. Somet

Developing or playing in 1 world? In school I remember finding project files students in the past had left on the servers. Mostly like digital art files. Sometimes papers or a miscopy from a flash drive or a small game. I thought that was cool, like uncovering artifacts from the past. Social media groups of the recent graduate classes were just starting at the time. A couple of times, I remember uncovering a couple years old discussion from my school after I went down the same path and wound up in that online space. They were just old enough to be seniors or still be friends of current students. There was also the flash games everyone played in computer classes. Everyone must’ve gone to the same few sites and played the same games. Just about everybody could probably relate to stories of playing flash games in the computer lab although there’s no real record to share of the sites are even still around. Anyway, I thought it’d be cool if there was a digital world designed around leaving notes and things like this. In Mario Maker, you can see where everyone died in the world. In dark souls, you can leave messages behind. I always thought it’d be interesting to see everyone who was in your position in a world like that somehow. Imagine the history of stats/deaths/playtime. The story of John Smith and the orange goblin skin with 14 deaths over 53 minutes, 14 seconds he played of jump hero 6 years ago. The English teacher still talks about that guy! There’s an educational Minecraft version now. If that was more than a trend and became a standard lesson for a week, it would be interesting to see a persistent world students from the past left behind with their trolling to each other, inside jokes, and houses temporary classmate friends built together. The teacher could show off their house from when they played as a student. In the last 20 years though, I wonder if this would have the same interest. There might just be too much online presence social media for anyone to care about the past worlds. It also might lose appeal if everything is from long-since graduates that feel distant to relate to instead of current seniors and recent college goers. It may also just get too crowded in the game world to make new things or have them actually stand out. I also wonder if trolls would just destroy the creations of the past— I think modifications are cool but just destroying everything would ruin the purpose.