Let's take a momentary break from the biggest news story of the day to consider a whole new playful experience that's come to my attention thanks to the lovely Doctoe: Colo[u]rWar 2008!
Internet-famous Ze Frank (who was warmly welcomed on the Tech Weekly podcast a couple of weeks ago) is on a new quest - to bring the summer camp game of his youth online. And so he has chosen the lifeblogging app Twitter to pit like against like, colour against colour, in a fight to the, er, eventual win.
What is it all about? Well, as Ze says in his original post:
We used to play color wars at summer camp. Near the end of the year the entire camp would split up into colors, red, green, black, blue, etc... and compete in a series of events: tug of war, egg toss, basketball - sort of like the movie Meatballs, except all within the same camp...
So, for a while I've been thinking about how a color war might look online. How would you play tug of war, or other group games that were silly, time limited, and awesome... and more importantly how could you create teams within an already functioning environment to have that same people-mash-up effect that we did at camp.
He's Tweeted here, here and here. And I have joined in the fun (Go team Off-White!). And if you have a clever idea for how to bring silly games like, uh, Capture the Flag, tag or King of the Hill (to name a few FPS stalwarts), throw 'em down here or add 'em to the growing list here.
