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QNTMFSLC*playing and making games and interactive fiction through Twitter

qntmfslc is Quantum of Solace with the vowels removed

just a short 140 second talk about games built on and through twitter...

here’s our example, a game of espionage played over twitter



espionage in real world != spymaster

but in the real world, not the activity stream... I’m not from spymaster

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Want to get your hands on MarkRonson's keyboard? Check out theBBC Big Weekend site and join theInstrument Hunt.7:59 AM May 22nd, 2007 from web

The Gossip's guitar was stolen by Cyrus! Visit the BigWeekend website for details of how you can retrieve it - andkeep it.9:55 AM May 21st, 2007 from web

WE DID IT! FOUR TRANSMITTERS DOWN, CYRUS RUN OUT OFTOWN, AND THE BIG WEEKEND IS SAFE. NICE WORK ANDTHANKS! ENJOY THE MUSIC!10:14 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

Everyone head up to the VIP entrance now - by the north tipof tri 5 - going to see if I can get you backstage to find thefinal transmitter9:36 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

More from Vi: Transmitter is live and in place at triangle 1,up at the north end by the bar and open air stage. Everyonehead over now!8:38 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

Just filmed a vid about the last two transmitters, putting it upon the blog in ten or so8:00 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

Got email from Vi: transmitter in place at triangle 5, right atthe south by some stalls. Let's move.7:12 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

Brilliant - first one down! Triangle 2 is out. Three moretransmitters to go. Be ready.6:10 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

News from Violet: transmitter is in place at triangle 3, by thesigning and merch tents. Get there now!5:53 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

Guys here have a neat system. We've numbered the fivetriangles 1- 5, north to south - so 3 is the new music tent.We'll navigate by this.5:07 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

Violet just emailed - she's going to know exactly when thetransmitters will be placed in position. Doing a vid now withmore info4:51 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

Morning all. If you're coming to the fest today, have a bigbreakfast. We've got a big day ahead - transmitters to find,villains to foil.2:20 AM May 20th, 2007 from web

New vid up - probably the last of the day. Got the map, gotthe transmitters' eventual locations. Tomorrow, we finishthis. - Paul11:17 AM May 19th, 2007 from web

Map looks good, but transmitters aren't there. Maybe thoseare the final locations? Filming a vid about it now.9:50 AM May 19th, 2007 from web

Checking out a map that someone sent in - looks like wemight have a lead on the transmitters8:11 AM May 19th, 2007 from web

Checked the box on the net, don't think it's anything relatedto Cyrus's transmitters - looks like just a genuine car part6:36 AM May 19th, 2007 from web

Just put up a new vid on the blog, heading out to do another.Cheers for everyone sending in the texts and photos - we'regetting there5:06 AM May 19th, 2007 from web

Some guys are having trouble sending photos in - *don't*MMS them to my mobile, that won't work - send them [email protected]:47 AM May 19th, 2007 from web

Lining up outside the festival - tons of people here, bloodylong queue, and none of them know what they're in for.3:43 AM May 19th, 2007 from web

Setting off now. I'll keep you updated - hope to see you atthe fest! Keep your eyes peeled for those symbols -pauldenchfield.com2:33 AM May 19th, 2007 from web

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playing games since 2007

We’ve got some form here, back in 2007 I was part of a team who produced an alternate reality game for BBC in UK, we created and used a Twitter stream in the story telling of the game and to place clues



game controllers should have less buttons than this

Many games are too complex, game controllers have even more buttons than the lifts in the Intercontinental



games are more fun/easy to playwith more natural controllers

And we all know that if you make natural interfaces games are more fun/engaging and have a wider audience



even easier with every dayobjects: SMS, Twitter

So we make games with things like SMS and Twitter, everyday services/devices... we also learn about how they use these devices



merge microfiction andgameplay

Story telling and personal involvement in story telling are key too, like Japanese mobile phone fiction



game commissioned for British Film Institute festival

So we were asked to produce a game about James Bond for a pervasive games festival as part of their Cubby Broccoli season



weaving in real world objects

And we wanted to weave in real life objects like this toilet door graphic we added red dots to and turned into an assasination target



follow M to join the game

Game play is simple, follow M, who follows you back and DMs you



M sends missions as DMs

M then sends you on missions as DMs, remember, it’s a game about spying and DMs are hushed whispers



players DM their solutions back to M

The players then DM their solutions to the missions back to M, keeping their answers secret

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players send in twitpics

Sometimes the DMs contain Twitpic links if we’ve told them to photograph something



active listening robots and a custom contol deck

We have some automation tools, robots which sit talking to the Twitter API and deciding whether the player’s messages have fulfilled the missions and sending them on new ones.

We also have a custom game control panel where we can look at messages which we can’t categorize and act on automatically



surfacing game activity on twitter

Instead of spamming back into the players stream we surface the game activity on a separate twitter account... player’s stream stays as their own.

Here we’re surfacing it about 20 foot tall with a projector on a wall at the BFI using a hacked up copy of Twistori



development time for game, 3 days

faster to write software than domanual analysis

Couple of quick points

Took 3 man days to code the game logic robots and the custom deck

It’s often faster to write software to perform analysis rather than to hire interns, never a replacment for human touch but can help to sift/sort and surface



all DM’s and @replies, no fake tweets, so not spammy

players as advocates rather thanas advertising pawns

all the game play is as DMs so doesn’t pollute the stream of real conversation and upset followers. the @replies are from the players and they write them themselves, so players are really advocates rather than pawns in a spammy viral/social advertising campaign



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thank you, now back off to London (yes I do really come from London)

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