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By Florence Ion
Imagine firing up a new game only to find that your original photographs or artwork were being used as part of the game’s plot line without your knowledge—and without even a proper citation. This is exactly what happened to several artists who posted their creations and designs online, only to have them snagged for use in an Internet-based, Twitter-fueled RPG called Tweeria.
Tweeria brands itself the “lazy Twitter RPG,” and it certainly lives up to that tagline. It requires little to no interaction other than posting to your own Twitter feed and conversing with other users on the social network. Every time you tweet, your “alter ego” in the game embarks on quests, slays monsters, and picks up items, just as you might do in a normal MMORPG. Tweeria currently has 14,000 registered users and receives about 18,000 visits a day.The game includes all of the basic elements of a fantasy role-playing game: mages, warriors, player-versus-player battles, achievement points, and mastery of skills—including, perhaps, a little digital pickpocketing.
Tweeria is, for the most part, a fresh and dynamic way to interact with a social network made even more attractive by the fact that it doesn't needlessly spam your Twitter followers. Where Tweeria comes up short, however, is in the fact that a majority of the art associated with the game appears to be lifted from other sources on the Internet. Some of the avatar artwork associated with certain classes and races that users can play is directly derived from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, while other images are lifted directly from the profiles of Deviant Art users, in many cases without any credit.
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Imagine firing up a new game only to find that your original photographs or artwork were being used as part of the game’s plot line without your knowledge—and without even a proper citation. This is exactly what happened to several artists who posted their creations and designs online, only to have them snagged for use in an Internet-based, Twitter-fueled RPG called Tweeria.
Tweeria brands itself the “lazy Twitter RPG,” and it certainly lives up to that tagline. It requires little to no interaction other than posting to your own Twitter feed and conversing with other users on the social network. Every time you tweet, your “alter ego” in the game embarks on quests, slays monsters, and picks up items, just as you might do in a normal MMORPG. Tweeria currently has 14,000 registered users and receives about 18,000 visits a day.The game includes all of the basic elements of a fantasy role-playing game: mages, warriors, player-versus-player battles, achievement points, and mastery of skills—including, perhaps, a little digital pickpocketing.
Tweeria is, for the most part, a fresh and dynamic way to interact with a social network made even more attractive by the fact that it doesn't needlessly spam your Twitter followers. Where Tweeria comes up short, however, is in the fact that a majority of the art associated with the game appears to be lifted from other sources on the Internet. Some of the avatar artwork associated with certain classes and races that users can play is directly derived from the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, while other images are lifted directly from the profiles of Deviant Art users, in many cases without any credit.
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