The jury is still out on this one, but here it is for you to decide. Allen Varney, freelance writer and game designer has created what appears (someone correct me if I'm wrong), the first blog to blog based online role playing game. He calls it...Noteworthy.
In Noteworthy each player maintains his or her own blog as by one invented game character in a shared setting. All player characters (PCs) should be contentious, ambitious, combative, and eager to advance their own situation at the expense of other PCs. The blogs are themselves part of the setting, and all PCs can read each other's blogs. All PCs' entries chronicle remarkable developments in this setting, as witnessed or directly experienced by the characters.A nonplayer referee periodically describes these noteworthy events to players in general terms. The PCs' entries, and their notes on each other's entries, elaborate and embroider the referee's description, and offer their own responses to these events. The events inevitably draw PCs into conflict. Inter-character conflicts are handled by challenge entries and by other PCs' support of these challenges. Losing PCs become outsiders, unaffected by ongoing events, though they can still post entries normally. The last PC left wins.
After having read the synopsis, a short excerpt of which follows, I'm perplexed as to how this is any different from real life, in which the UBER bloggers post things on their blogs and then the underling bloggers flame them for days and weeks on end until another UBER blogger, or an underling, comes up with a new post that deserves to be challenged at which point the spectacle starts over again.
