PlayPen: an open-ended adventure game made of Wiki

Brandon Boyer 1:53 pm Mon Apr 19, 2010

In other free-form gaming developments, Farbs — the mind behind local favorite 'Game To Get', Captain Forever — has officially unveiled PlayPen, a community site that harnesses the scale and ease-of-use of wikis and morphs it into an open-ended lo-fi adventure game.

Which makes it sound a bit more complicated than it actually is: in essence, PlayPen is a low-res pixel-art editor that allows anyone to branch or modify individual screens, hyperlinking them in as many varied directions as you or anyone could imagine.

Is it chaos? It absolutely, beautifully is: even in the few short days that the public release has been open, it's already seen some 1500 new pages added, with paths laid down to meet pathetic gnome-centaurs while on mushroom-addled freakouts, or, uh, unmediated poetry discussions with Duck Harold Bloom, which is about all you could ask for — and is yours for the modifying if it doesn't live up to your darkest desires.

PlayPen [Farbs]

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