If you want to get straight to the bit about t-shirts, just scroll down to the last paragraph!
If you haven’t heard of PMOG, it’s a ‘Passively Multiplayer Online Game’. How it works is you install a Firefox add-on, and essentially you get ‘experience’ to level up like you would in a traditional RPG, except by browsing the internet and completing ‘missions’ instead of killing baddies. You simultaneously earn Datapoints (i.e. internet gold) that you can use to buy tools in the Shoppe. If you want a good overview of what PMOG is about, take this introductory mission. Besides just browsing and taking missions, there are a variety of tools (i.e. items) that you can use: lightposts let you create missions from your favorite webpages, you can leave mines on sites to damage unarmored browsers (and protect yourself from mines with armor), portals are a bit like StumbleUpon (but you can only access them from whatever page they have been placed on), crates let you leave gifts of tools or Datapoints for others to discover, and St. Nicks render the mines of your enemies useless. You become aligned with the seven different associations depending on what tools and missions you take, which ultimately determines what tools you can purchase.
If you want to get in on the beta, leave a comment to that effect (make sure to fill out the ‘email’ field), and I’ll send an invite to the first two commentators! After that, it’ll be up to those two people to use their invites on subsequent commentators, because you only get two invites per week.
Because I probably know more about t-shirts than anything else, I created a Guide to Indie T-Shirts mission on PMOG, and if you like me you’ll take it and give it a good rating! If you like this blog, you’ll almost certainly like the t-shirts displayed therein. While you’re at it, you should visit my profile to add me as an ally! I promise to reciprocate.
Link: [PMOG]
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Joe, remember all those time you gave me rollos? This is like that, but with beta invites. So if you could repeat history, I’d appreciate it.
Ooh, I would like an invite please!
Tony: Invite sent! Be sure to ally with me so I know you got it! http://pmog.com/users/joe
Trey: I tried inviting you but it says ‘invalid email or already in use’. Did you get an invite from somebody else, maybe? You can send me a different email if you want me to try that.
Oh, this sounds awesome, someone want to shoot me an invite, please? =)
Can we try this email addy instead?
Stephanie: The second one worked! So your invite has been sent
Wow, this is an awesome concept.
Does that mean you want an invite, MJ?
Haha, I thought you only had two! Yeah, I’d love an invite. I tried signing up at the site, but I guess there’s a waiting list or something.
It says I only have two… but in practice I think I have more. But since you signed up to the waiting list with that email, you’re going to have to give me a different one, because that one is now ‘in use’!
And even if I personally run out of invites, the people I’ve invited should still have some left
Good point, let’s try this one…
Any invites left? Sounds awesome
Stu: I sent you an invite. You can ally with me if you are so inclined: http://pmog.com/users/achernar
Hey! You guys! This sounds awesome! I will look at T-shirts more if you send me an invitation! I mean it!
Done and done! P.S. Ally me and take my missions: http://pmog.com/users/joe
I’d love and invite please!
Just got one, Don’t know if it was from this site or the other one I was on, Thanks!