NetScouting as a Game
Players of PMOG, a multiplayer game grafted onto the normal experience of browsing the Web, get a profile on the PMOG site, shown above. The site tracks their equipment in the game, their list of allies and rivals, and their progress making and taking missions, which are interactive tours through the Internet that can earn points.
To get started, players download a toolbar. When they log in to PMOG, software tracks the sites that they visit, and gives them points for each unique URL they visit within a 24-hour period. Then they can create and take missions. For example, a PMOG player might visit the homepage for the forthcoming Batman movie, The Dark Knight, and find a pop-up from a fellow player inviting him to learn about the history of Batman. If the player elects to follow the mission, a series of pop-up windows would lead him through sites where he might, for example, view cover art from the Batman comic books, read trivia on the Batman TV series, and view information about the making of the new film. At each site, he’d find pop-up windows displaying notes written by the mission creator, perhaps giving additional background on the site, telling a story, or leaving clues to a puzzle.
Suddenly the Internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but rather a hackable, rewarding environment!
Start now: http://pmog.com
