Online Observations

Flickr has (re)launched a decently interesting game called the Game NeverEnding or GNE. All you need is your Flickr account to login and start playing. It is meant to be a MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Game) however at the time I tried it out, there were only 90 players playing (a situation which should change, as the game seems interesting).

The game involves moving around from town to town and collecting objects. Objects are interacted with in various ways (you can eat them, give them, fire them, play with them, and many more things). You can visit building in town for buying and selling objects. You can buy a house.

Although the game is interesting at this stage with items appearing randomly at locations and available for you to pick up. However, as more and more people play this game, there will be a big rush for picking up items as soon as they appear. That may take the fun out the game and so we will have to wait and see if Flickr has a plan to handle that or whether it will become boring.

Another thing is that the site is pretty fast. But like I said, there were only 80 users online. So we don’t know how that will play out in the long run.

Have fun playing.