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AngriBuddhist · Entrenched Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 778 Location: Wa.

What happened to the in-game website Projects?

**Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 3:48 pm

rose · ...and then Magic happens Joined: 26 Nov 2003 Posts: 4117

I'm not sure exactly what you mean. Space's new site

www.despoiler.org might be the place you are talking about.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:11 pm

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AngriBuddhist · Entrenched Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 778 Location: Wa.

No, not actually.

What I'm refering to are the ideas or attempts to create sites like-

1. In-game sites that have real news stories mixed with fictional PM created stories. The idea being that it adds legitimacy to the fictional story.

2. In-game sites that creators had hoped would be used by PMs for rabbit holes or in-game characters.

3. Other.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 4:52 pm

konamouse

How about subscribing to RSS feeds from legitimate news sources. I know you can do that on blogspot.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 05, 2007 6:46 pm

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AngriBuddhist · Entrenched Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 778 Location: Wa.

Sorry, but what I'm looking for here is...

Anyone who has, or knows someone who has, tried to create an in-game website, please tell me...what happened? What did you try and why do you think it didn't work?

**Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 3:43 am

colin

I think this one is still active: http://www.world07.com/

**Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:40 am

AngriBuddhist · Entrenched Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 778 Location: Wa.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:50 am

thebruce

I think the problem is that if you create a website that can't be known to be out of game, then it would be considered a game-jack. The PM of whatever game(s) you intend to 'embrace' would have to either know your plan, or consider it not a threat and embrace it as well... otherwise the players need to know that it's not in-game as created by the PM, but rather an OOG site where the players go to and continue to remain 'in-game'.

The closest I can think of is the immersion unlimited forums where they wanted a place that characters of args could interact with players in an in-game fashion, without worrying about things such as UF's TOS - but the PMs first had to accept that IU would be a useful in-game tool. And players already knew that it 'belonged' to no arg, if only by the site's name.

**Posted:** Mon Aug 06, 2007 11:44 am

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