Next-Gen is reporting that PMOG, or the “Passively Multiplayer Online Game,” has been launched by GameLayers. Played in a Firefox browser by surfing with a free extension, PMOG transforms a user’s typical web-crawl into an online battlefield, where visiting one’s usual sites can allow you to find missions and items, or stumble over booby traps left by other users.
The game is a BBC-funded experiment by Justin Hall, who conceived and designed it for his university thesis. To quote the project summary:
In our modern lives, we spend much of our time performing tasks, experiencing content, or communicating with others through the internet. Our online interactions, the sites we use and our habits while using them, have the opportunity to say volumes about us as individuals, and about our culture as a whole. PMOG is an attempt to catalogue our internet activity and use this information in a personal, interesting way.
Players of PMOG will use social media as weapons and quests, generating their own missions for friends and visitors, and undoubtedly laying plenty of traps on popular websites. The game is out of beta today, and is ready to make sure you’re never not playing an online game, ever, here.
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