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It was the world's first serious alternate reality game, a cooperative pre-imagining of a global oil crisis. Over 1900 players collaborated in May 2007 to chronicle the oil crisis with their own personal blog posts, videos, images and voicemails. The game ended after simulating the first 32 weeks of the oil shock, but its effects continue, as game designers analyze its unique gameplay and we all watch the continuing drama with global oil prices and supply.
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March 18, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Tom
During the WWO game, I wondered whether we were exaggerating how much and how quickly things would change, just to make the game more interesting. Now I hope that our projections were not too optimistic.
March 21, 2008 at 8:36 am
WriTerGuy
True dat. And in WWO, we were starting with the premise of a healthy economy, not one faltering under the growing load of mortgage defaults that we have today.
April 7, 2008 at 3:11 pm
OrganizedChaos
The diesel prices put a long hold on my one year raise. We all began to worry when prices shot up to $4.00 a gallon, but Colbalt sales are through the roof at the moment. Turns out it is one of the cheapest, most fuel economical cars on the market at this time. The sales are so hight that when the American Axel strike threatened production at our plant, GM opted to take all remaining parts from their other plants and let them shut down (there are currently 7 plants down) in order to keep our plant running. I just wonder how long it will be before our plant runs out of that part and we’re all collecting unemployment. GM was originally considering having our plant build a hybrid car in 2009, but instead stuck with another contract for the Cobalt. That’s funny, didn’t I say something about us producing hybrids about a year ago? =)