Google Wave is a new application from Google, allowing you to share and edit documents as part of a collective. Enterprising geeks have already figured out how to use it for a rather neat online role-playing tool.
The great thing here is that, while the system has kinks and flaws (heck, it's not even officially released yet) it allows you to play on any sort of time-scale using the same system. It means that you can post your characters' action on a coffee break, and if your friend happens to be online during the same coffee break, you can act out a small scene - or just leave it be until everyone's gathered later.
It's completely text-based of course, so you lose out on some of that live actor action - but it seems to adequately solve the time-frame problem of online gaming, since you can play it as a chat session when that fits, and as play-by-post when that fits. I think it looks very interesting, so I'm going to investigate this matter a little further.
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Do you have it? I could get you an invite.
I have it.
I just read an article about it actually. It discussed if it's actually as useful as Google want it to be. Hadn't thought about the roleplaying angle...
Guys, on a different note, I'm back in Sweden. As of now I have no great way of contacting you, but I'm working on it. Great to see signs of life. Suspecting it may be mutual...
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