PMOG, A Browser-Based Passively Multiplayer Online Game

by Scott Beale on May 12, 2008 · 2 comments

Our friends at Game Layers have just officially launched PMOG, a passively multiplayer online game that you play using your browser (Firefox with a special extension) by earning points surfing the web. For more info, watch the PMOG screencast and take the PMOG tour.

PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency.

This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement. Player behavior generates characters and alliances, triggers interactions in the environment, and earns the player points to spend online beefing up their inventory. Suddenly the internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but a hackable, rewarding environment.

PMOG

via Boing Boing

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1 Andrew Mager May 12, 2008 at 12:05 pm

Another distraction! Looks cool though.

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