Filed under: Fun, Text, Social Software
Ficly is Ficlets 2.0: super-short bursts of collaborative fiction
A couple of years ago, there was a site called ficlets, a home for collaborative fiction stories put together in super-short 1024-character bursts. Ficlets was great, because anybody could jump in and add to a story in no time at all, and some interesting work grew out of it. When Ficlets disappeared, the active community it left behind had no place to go. Until now. Ficly, from the creators of Ficlets, is like an updated, upgraded version of the original idea.
To participate, you just have to log in with Google, Yahoo!, Facebook or OpenID, then find a story and write a prequel or a sequel in 1024 characters. Your piece doesn't have to stand alone, it could just flesh out a character or place, or start a new scene for someone else to finish. I'm looking forward to reading some of the stuff coming out of Ficly, and speculating that maybe the evolution of print-on-demand services will play well with it. It would be too cool to have a long story you helped write shipped to your door in book form.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
