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Your World of Text - a collaborative text editing experiment
I hesitate to call Your World of Text a Time Waster, though that might be all it's really good for. The concept of Your World of Text is that you are looking at an infinite grid of text that any anonymous user can edit. If you're thinking "Warning, warning Will Robinson!", then we're on the same wavelength. Beware -- if you visit this site, you're looking at the uncensored internet.
Users can click anywhere but in the center of the screen that loads when you first load the site and edit text. That first area is locked as it gives you a description of what you're looking at, as well as a list of other Your World of Text sub-sites.
Scrolling around a bit, the site seems to be full of ASCII art, random ramblings, and more than a few impromptu chat sessions. It's hard to see what the point of Your World of Text is, but like a train wreck, it's also hard to look away.
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Anon said 2:13PM on 8-24-2009
It's "Danger, Will Robinson!", not "Warning, Will Robinson!".
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Rocket Raccoon said 9:43PM on 8-24-2009
This is a Download Squad epic quote fail
On a side note, this site is bizarro, but addicting?