Curiosity

A multiformat massively multiplayer game is the first of a series of experimental games that will lead up to a final full game release from the new Guildford-based studio in around three years' time.

The article on the Edge Website
22 Cans website (not much there yet)

So the jist is that 22Cans are releasing a series of games which will be experiments. The outcomes of the gamer behaviour from each of the 22 games will be somehow incorporated into the final game. The first game is a game about a cube. The cube has layers and players will click or mine the cube to try to get to the bottom layer of the cube. Everyone plays the same game so everyone is contributing to the same outcome which is what the "suprise" is at the bottom layer. Apparently only one player will get to see this information. Expect all sorts of memes and conspiracy theories about what is on the bottom as soon as the mining begins.

People dont know how many clicks it will take to get to the bottom or per layer. And this can change. They can adjust the clicks per square at will. Again I presume they have a time line they want this to run for so if its going to fast they'll increase the clicks and if its too slow and no one is playing it then they will reduce them. Layers will be made up of pictures from peoples fb profiles etc. He also talked about potentially changing how many clicks per person per country, i.e. if you're in japan you need to click 7 times to do what someone in Brazil might take 1 click.

It will potentially be one of the first true multiformat games. From what I read they will be trying to launch this on as many systems/devices etc as possible. I'm not sure if we'll see it on psn or xbl.

In the article iirc he talks about some of the things he invisages from the gamer behaviour. Such as players sculpting the cube when mining and people putting an artistic effect into the cube. 

There isn't much more to go on as their website isn't functional properly yet and i can't find a start date other than "soon". The edge article isn't very thorough compared to the 3-4 pager in the issue.

What do you think this? I'm not sure.. He's trying to tap into the potential of what gamers could do on mass working together and the outcome. Trying to ascertain the balance between working/investment into a game and the reward and reward structure.

Will any of you click/mine the cube? I expect i'll do it out of curiosity but it'll probably be a few clicks then i'll wait for 4chan to hack it or mine the whole thing overnight.