GameLayers which is developing the Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG), which is trying to meld the existing web with a game space in interesting ways. She's going to be joining us to talk about the sorts of opportunities and challenges that this generates. Her details are over the fold, but I wanted to be the first to welcome her.
Biographical entry:
Merci Victoria Grace is a writer and artist. She has created a number of short films, animations, fictions, and CG sculptures. Her work has shown at the UCLA Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She worked at Bad Robot Productions and was trained there in visual effects. At GameLayers, Merci envisions a game built on top of the entire internet and works with creative people to materialize that vision.
Welcome, Merci! It was great hearing a bit about your PMOG (love that :)) while we were both in Redmond, and I eagerly await more stuff here!
Thomas
Posted by: Thomas Malaby | Feb 28, 2008 at 20:28
This is great, but PMOG always bring with them the stigma of "spying" on the players which is unfortunate.
Posted by: John | Feb 28, 2008 at 20:35
Yay, Merci, welcome!!
Oh, and John, the company has a very good method of mitigating the potential problem you mention... perhaps Merci will explain...
Posted by: Lisa Galarneau | Feb 28, 2008 at 22:19
@Merci - this is groundbreaking stuff - I see the first glimmerings of Web 3.0 here. Welcome!
Posted by: Peter S. Jenkins | Feb 28, 2008 at 22:40
Never heard of this before. After doing a bit of reading, it seems pretty interesting. Privacy aside, this also has real potential to be a data mine for additional study of efficient page traversal and marketing online.
Posted by: Occulte | Feb 29, 2008 at 10:35
im now massively interested in passively :D
Posted by: Dizzy Banjo | Feb 29, 2008 at 11:31