Other World Notes: Booyah, the "World of Lifecraft" MMO

Booyah MMORPG App Aims to be “World of Lifecraft” for iPhone Owners

NWN blogging was light today, as I finished up an Apple Blog review of Booyah, a new social MMO from a team of World of Warcraft/Blizzard vets, who apply the MMORPG leveling mechanism to your offline life (another kind of mixed reality): Get regular exercise and attain Booyah’s “God of the Gym” status, for example; jetset around the world enough, and Booyah dubs you a “Wondrous Wanderer.” These achievements are registered as badges in the Booyah virtual “room” on your iPhone, where your comically bulbous-headed avatar resides. Booyah even has accomplishment ladders for cultural activities and social activism, so if players make a genuine effort to earn the game’s wide range of awards, they may also find themselves becoming more enriched, better-rounded human beings. Hence, I dub it World of Lifecraft. Download it here; read more about it here.

Comments

[Truthseeker Young]

Definitely seems like a precursor to the world in Charles Stross' "Halting State" (which wasn't attempting to cast all that far into the future, really).

For better or worse, I guess, the lines between our 'real' lives, the 'games' we play , and the games others play with us as the pieces, are starting to get blurry indeed...