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Re:Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive by a3_nm on Monday July 18, 2011 @09:05PM (#2779154)
Something along those lines that I'd really like to see (or maybe create someday) would be a decentralized virtual universe. Minecraft and such games are usually run on a server which is under someone's control; it would be funny to have a consensus-based distributed world (drawing inspiration from Freenet and possibly Bitcoin for the technical implementation) which would exist in the network of the players, be the same for everyone, and survive as long as people are playing it.
Re:Chain World: a game that exists on a unique USB flash drive by mentat on Tuesday July 19, 2011 @11:34AM (#2781328)
Wow, this is a pretty interesting idea. Have you given any thought on how you'd establish consensus on an ongoing basis? It seems like a hard but very interesting problem.