After spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.
It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.
Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.
Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.
Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.
Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.
This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.
If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.
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Michael Battle has created a 3D Flash visualization of Digg stories in a full-screen spectacle that is pretty cool. Digg has their own Flash visualization tools, but nothing like this. If you haven't seen this in action, it is rockin'. I still prefer to search through Digg stories the old-fashioned website way, but 3D digg is certainly a break from the ordinary everyday once in a while. I have an interest in alternative user interfaces, and this is a good example of one that pushes at least the Digg envelope. Admittedly, this kind of thing is a bit more Web 3.0 than 2.0, but cool nonetheless.
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zoro25 said 5:10PM on 11-06-2006
looks like
http://labs.digg.com
z
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Michael Battle said 10:40PM on 11-06-2006
Hey - thanks for the review.
If you'd like to read a little more about the idea or how to use it please check out my post:
http://www.footloosemoose.com/michael_wp/2006/10/28/mb3digg-digg-goes-3d/
... and the follow up ...
http://www.footloosemoose.com/michael_wp/2006/11/02/mb3d-engine-where-to-now/
Thanks again - I look forward to your feedback.
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Enrico said 7:50AM on 11-07-2006
Ne avevo già parlato qui..
http://www.rinero.it/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=491
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