Call for preservation of ephemeral bot game logs.
Unlike real-time bots, blogbott games tolerated hours between moves. This made them accessible to dial-up users but fragile (comment moderation could break a turn order). blogbott games
game bots, blog games, automated play, procedural rhetoric Call for preservation of ephemeral bot game logs
This paper examines the underexplored category of "blogbott games"—defined here as turn-based or interactive games mediated by automated bot accounts on blog comment sections or federated publishing platforms. Through a comparative analysis with IRC bots, Twitter gaming bots, and early web forum games, we establish a functional taxonomy. Twitter gaming bots
Clarify the term "blogbott" as either a historical artifact or a proposed category.
Three core mechanics: (1) Trigger-response puzzles (2) Collaborative narrative generation (3) High-score persistence via blog metadata