Invite: Purvasive Games?

[cdave]

Anyone fancy joining me at an up-coming sandpit?

The evenings I've been to have consisted of a couple of newly designed games they are trialing (sometimes involving running around outside), and a few perenial favourites like Wearwolf, and Dadist Trivial Pursuit to pass time while waiting for you slot on a big game.

Monday 22 February on the Spirit Level at Royal Festival Hall. All Free! I know a couple of people who are going to this, so anyone else fancy turning up?

Friday 26 March 2010 at the Victoria & Albert Museum for their monthly late-night opening. Almost certainly a free games, bigger ones may have a small charge. Don't know anyone who's turning up yet, but Echo Bazzar (Victoriana text adventure RPG, twitter login) are running something there!

Comments

[cdave]

*shrugs*

It's a recruitment tactic. I wouldn't be playing unless someone tweeted it.

My guess is that the reasoning behind it in the owners minds is that the sort of people who will be put off by their lists tweeting, would never have found it anyway, so they've not lost anything.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

It's like my aversion to Farmville and similar - the spam it generates. It's noise. It might be just a tiny bit of noise, but it's still an irritant, and it has a tendency to increase rapidly. Facebook make it very easy to block content from being visible at the game level if you don't want to see it, but what it's powerless against is the people who then choose to update their status to request random things. I don't want to know if you want more pink fences or windmills or whatever the hell the game is suggesting you need, but without blocking you out altogether, I don't get to choose. Similarly with Twitter, there's no simple way to block a particular subject, and a daily tweet really is enough of an irritant that I'd like to. I don't care that the game designers haven't lost anything, I do care that they're inconveniencing me, and doing it in a way that can make people turn around and ask me what the big deal is when it's "just one tweet/status update". Each spam email is JUST one email, and I can "just press delete" but in both cases, I have to sift through the increasing noise to get to the actual content I do want to see. Games that make you broadcast,, especially if they do it regularly, are just creating noise and that's NOT a good thing.

[cdave]

I guess that's true enough.

Personally I think that there's enough un-shared interests in other people's Web2.0 streams, that one more (arguably) commercial thing doesn't matter.

That said I did just stop follwing someone who was about a 20:1 ratio on RT competitions, to content, so do see your point.

I'll try not to do it at all, but will keep it to one a week maximum if in a rare compelling bit.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Why not set up a separate Twitter account especially for spam type content? Then you fulfill the requirements and get the rewards, and I can totally ignore it by not following that account.

[cdave]

The same reason don't people don't set up different facebook accounts for farmville. There's a non-essential element of the gameplay that shows when members of your social network are also playing, and lets you interact. If I had to create another account, it wouldn't have the same network.

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Ah, right, I hadn't realised that. I thought it was just a "spam twitter, get shinies!" sort of deal.