Well Steve and Trapper from 360voice officially announced the big thing they were working on so diligently lately, and its looking pretty cool. You can now create and join gamerscore challenges. Remember the Old Spice Challenge from Microsoft? Well its that, but with a twist (and the same sponsor to boot).
Currently in an open beta format in which you simply play to be considered the winner of the challenge - but they have mentioned in future there will be a prize structure in place for some of these user created challenges.
Near the tail end of their Alpha phase of this project I was added as a tester - I played a few challenges and for the most part lost - but it was fun in any event. Keeping with the blogging format, the system generates a blog entry recapping the gaming done by all attendees, and you also have the ability to talk smack to the other members of the challenge while its going on.
Another popular thing on the voice blogs are the badges, which they added some new ones based on challenges as well, so head on over and check what they have brewing.
http://blog.360voice.com/2007/11/old-spice-exper.html
Also, it hasn’t been officially announced, but Trapper said it was OK to talk about so here goes. Next weekend (Nov 16th) Trapper and Steve are having another 360voice Code Weekend, and I was invited to attend! So it will be pretty cool to meet the boys in person, get some gaming, get some drinks, write some code together and discuss the future and ways that we can work together for the future! Can’t Wait!
It will be fun having you around Squid! I am getting tired of just Steve anyhow… don’t tell him that… j/k
Very cool. I’ll have to try it out. Sounds like fun.