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Reclaiming "social games"

games about the humans who play them · By droqen

INTRODUCTION: What is 1st Dragon? How do I play? Sticky

A topic by droqen created Oct 03, 2018 Views: 1,089 Replies: 4
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What is 1st Dragon?

Welcome! This is a game played through posts on this very forum, in which all of us work together to explore a little pocket-world and populate it with life. I guess it's kind of a play-by-post roleplaying game? with a tiny extra layer of technology on top: https://droqen.itch.io/1st-dragon

How do I play?

You post whatever you like on the 1st Dragon main forum, and once per day make a post in the 1st Dragon » Projects subforum (either creating a New Topic or making a single reply, but not both).

  1. In case you missed it, you can only make one post per day in the Projects subforum.
  2. If you're not sure what to do, visit the Projects subforum and make a post in any thread you find there :O your work will be appreciated!

Projects

Every new topic in the Projects subforum is its own little venture -- a prospective attempt to do something -- and every reply in a project topic represents a unit of work, effort, investment in that project.

Once a project has reached its # of needed replies, it's reached some milestone: maybe it's complete, or maybe something else happened, altering the project and possibly granting its own unexpected rewards. These replies can all come from the same person (over multiple days, of course) or from all different people.

Starting a new Project

When starting a new project topic, you must construct it a certain way:

[Location of your project] Title, your statement of intent ["needs 10 replies"]

for example:

[8N and 4E of home] Building a bridge across the river! [needs 10 replies]
[Inside the observatory] Searching for new constellations [needs 10 replies]
[Home, underground] Killing rats [needs 10 replies]

In the body of your project topic, as in any individual reply's body, you can say whatever you want!

here are the projects placed? People are talking about flower fields and stuff like there's an environment or somethin', but... I don't see anything like that. Is it imaginary? Where are the 18x18 sprites placed? And what are the coordinates people are using? Is there a map somewhere?

(It's possible that it'll all be clear In Time™, but for the moment I'm a bit confused.)

It'll all be clear In Time™, promise! For now just make a post in a project :) I've added a little tip for what to do first to the OP, hope it helps future visitors

So that one person who just posted something with coordinates is flying as blind as I am, then?

yes :) i applaud that person's initiative.