THE GAME (G.3): A Primer (Reprise)

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THE GAME Meta is now on Twitter and if there is something Twitter has taught us, it is the importance of concise, to the point language. Admittedly, preceding iterations of GAME primers have sorely lacked clarity and conciseness.

THE GAME takes time to explain and it would be impossible (although we’re trying) to explain it in a 140 character tweet, but here is a revised, and hopefully easier to understand, primer on THE GAME:

In general, THE GAME aggregates, (re)creates, resurrects or recombines ideas, news, information, technologies, entertainment, created works and services from the real and online worlds; the "byproducts" of these initial processes can then aggregate, be (re)created, be resurrected or recombine into endless competitive nodes. The totality of these nodes make up THE GAME.

The current version of THE GAME (version 0.3), or G.3 ("G point three"), is a perpetually evolving, open-ended and openly innovated omni-competition. THE GAME includes every idea and activity (or node) from the worlds of sports & recreation, business, politics, technology, internet, science, arts & entertainment, and life/style, and can be blended in endless ways with each other or with every newly created or derived idea and activity from the same worlds. Simultaneously, THE GAME also includes the endless modifications, recombinations (mashups, remixes, etc.) or blending (in endless ways) of every idea and activity (existing, created or derived) from the worlds of sports & recreation, business, politics, technology, internet, science, arts & entertainment, and life/style.

THE GAME is an open and additive system. All the aggregate guidelines and rules (see the original guidelines and rules) that exist, created or modified in THE GAME derive from an open, flexible and extensible framework . THE GAME framework can be distilled as follows:

1. THE GAMEs’ participants and developers can include anyone.
2. THE GAMEs’ nodes can consist of or be based on anything.
3. THE GAME can take place anywhere.
4. THE GAME can take place at anytime.
5. GAME participants can participate in any way (all of THE GAME, several nodes in THE GAME or a single node in THE GAME; as casual, competitive or professional participants).
6. If a node in THE GAME does not exist, participants and developers are free to create a new or modify an existing node; adding to THE GAME.