The Peoples Tree
The People's Tree ↗ was an experiment about community building in networked games. Players design ornaments and leave messages on a shared tree. One key finding from this and subsequent projects like Córdoba Court was an unexpectedly high player return rate of 15-30%. This suggests that even without an explicit goal, players felt a personal stake in the outcome of the collectively-designed artifact and returned to observe its evolution. The app was an opportunity to build technology, policy, and run analytics.
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Córdoba Court
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