Comments on: If I had a million monkeys...

If I had a million monkeys...

eoligarry — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 15:55:54 -0800

WriteCloud is a collaborative writing game where the wisdom of crowds guides the cursor. Kind of like a web 2.0 version of exquisite corpse with letters instead of drawings. [via mefi projects]

By: Plutor

Plutor — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:14:22 -0800

Cool, but it's just asking to be gamed. Let's make it say "j00 sux" next.

By: Artw

Artw — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:38:23 -0800

Gaming that "ask a question" thing was more fun...

By: chasing

chasing — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:08:48 -0800

Oh, hey. Yeah, this is a site of mine. Cool. Um, so it's a bit slow at the moment, but thanks for the link, eoligarry! The text is getting a tad silly, now. Whee!

By: martinX's bellbottoms

martinX's bellbottoms — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:51:23 -0800

The way the text has been appearing reminds me a bit of an Ouigi board.

By: tickingclock

tickingclock — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:10:34 -0800

That's a really interesting concept, chasing. I wish the rounds would end faster, though -- we've been stuck on "I think I am a dork" for half an hour now, with three guesses to go.

By: blacklite

blacklite — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:17:45 -0800

whoa, done entirely in really slow php. Rock!

By: kozad

kozad — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:53:13 -0800

"a kind of semi-random mess of boringness" is what the "author" of this site is afraid might happen. He is quite an optimist, based on what I have seen so far. Worst of the Web. Egregious misspellings don't help. (Startt? Gameee?)

By: chasing

chasing — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:55:02 -0800

blacklite: Yeah, this was a three-hour project... But it's loading a bit quicker at the moment... When I have some extra time I might try to streamline it a bit.

By: darksasami

darksasami — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 20:01:43 -0800

I got on it when it was moving rather quickly, and it was fun! It just requires sufficient people. And possibly some way to keep it from repeating letters once everyone knows what the last letter is going to be and submits it all at the same time.

By: treepour

treepour — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:09:06 -0800

It would be cool to combine something like this with that Dasher thing that lets you select letters like you're in some kind of psychedelic alphabet racing game. Too tired to look up links now, sorry.

By: jennydiski

jennydiski — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:40:51 -0800

"the wisdom of crowds..." Are you kidding?