PMOG.com - The Passively Multiplayer Online Game

PMOG, the Passively Multiplayer Online Game, is a fun way to continuously compete against other web users while just browsing through your various visited sites. The first step is to download the Firefox add-on that sits at the bottom of your web browser while you go about your day online. With each site there’s the chance that you will gain or lose points, find a mission through a whole new set of urls, or even find a treasure chest full of goodies. With each new site you visit, you gain points. These points allow you to climb the ranks of the game and create a more sophisticated PMOG profile. Based on your browsing behavior and the tools you tend to use, you accumulate three different associations. Tools available to you include mines that blow up when someone visits the particular site where it’s been laid, causing a drop in points for that person, armor to defend against those mines, crates that carry treasure in tools for some lucky players, portals that take browsers to other random sites, lightposts used to create a mission of sites for users to follow and discover, and St Nicks that stop a user from leaving one of their mines. It’s continuously played and a fun way to make your daily browsing online into a social challenge, while being introduced to new corners of the web that other players have enjoyed.

"PMOG is an infinite game built on individual network histories, transforming our web surfing into ongoing social play. With a game head-up display in Firefox, players can bomb each other, wage war over web sites, and lead other users on web missions. Ordinary web sites become caches for items and currency. PMOG fuses an MMO into our WWW.

PMOG stands for Passively Multiplayer Online Game. Players play without playing; clicking around the internet turns into experience points and currency.

This unconventional massively multiplayer online game merges your web life with an alternate, hidden reality. The mundane takes on a layer of fantastic achievement. Player behavior generates characters and alliances, triggers interactions in the environment, and earns the player points to spend online beefing up their inventory. Suddenly the internet is not a series of untouchable exhibits, but a hackable, rewarding environment."

It’s a unique way for people to explore the web and meet new people based on a game that doesn’t really require much skill. The game also helps you to understand your own browsing patterns and find likeminded people. The site is well designed and it’s possible to become invisible if you want a break from the game with relative ease.

Will people start to get bored of the game since it never has an actual end and thus have a ton of inactive players? How will they control the quality of the portals and missions so that people aren’t having to deal with lame sites and thus not follow any of the suggested paths presented with the site?