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Re:Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release by fookyong on Thursday March 03, 2011 @06:58AM (#2283672)
just added a few more spaces for you :)
Re:Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release by kitsune_ on Thursday March 03, 2011 @07:18AM (#2283706)
What's the point of the game? Spamming twitter with random messages??? That'd be a rather idiotic thing.

Does it apply some language processing related to the quests at hand?

Re:Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release by fookyong on Thursday March 03, 2011 @07:52AM (#2283774)
wow. I am quite blown away by unwarranted cynicism like this :/

Littlecosm is a twitter client in that, if you want to, you can tweet from it. Users only tweet from Littlecosm if they type in text and hit a "tweet" button, in exactly the same way they use any other client.

The game encourages you to tweet about it from time to time when you achieve something new in the game (of course, and so does every blog post and new web2.0 app out there!) but you are entirely, 100% free to not do that.

Re:Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release by kitsune_ on Thursday March 03, 2011 @08:11AM (#2283816)
I didn't want to inject criticism.

The question is, how do you "solve" quests? Everybody on here seems to assume that this is done by tweeting about it. It even says on the page that the quest will be solved quicker if you do so.

Re:Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release by fookyong on Thursday March 03, 2011 @08:29AM (#2283854)
where on earth does it say that? that is 100% incorrect.

quests are simply solved by waiting and coming back to collect your prize. that's it. it is perhaps the most casual form of item awarding there is.

if you wanted to, you could collect every single item in the game without tweeting once.

Re:Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release by dolugen on Thursday March 03, 2011 @08:19AM (#2283832)
If I'm gonna use it as a client, I'd want to have pages/notifications for mentions and direct messages. And the other figures' tweets could be real time updated, I'm sure you thought of that.
Re:Littlecosm Twitter game alpha release by fookyong on Thursday March 03, 2011 @08:27AM (#2283850)
it's not meant to be a direct replacement of your existing client. more like something supplementary, or when you want to take a break from Tweetie for an hour :)