I am making this game in Google Docs. ::nodnod::

Long story.

No, actually, short story. I made a joke about making a game in Google Docs, and was told that I should. So I’m making this game in Google Docs. Documents, Spreadsheets, Forms, that stuff. It’ll be great.

Okay, so the game. In this game, you play as an alien colonist on a planet that also has a human colony. You don’t like humans, so you want them gone, but you’ve signed a treaty saying you won’t hurt them. You decide your best course of action is to annoy the humans off the planet by breeding together local plants with annoying properties.

(Click here to suggest annoying properties!)

This is a massive-ish multiplayer game. It is also a role-playing game where you can create content as the character you are playing as.

Everyone playing the game is playing cooperatively towards the common goal of annoying humans with plants, though there will be rankings over who is the best annoying plant botanist and who is the best journalist of annoying plants and stuff like that.

I am hoping it picks up enough steam that everyone drops in from time to time for several weeks, and collectively create a rich and storied game world. If everything goes according to plans, there will be options for quick casual play, deep idle play, and creative content creation, and even an option for people who don’t want to do anything but get regular updates on the game and vote in quick public opinion surveys.

Here is a draft of the introduction document you would first read as a player. It gives you a bit of character and backstory for the world and presents to you the class options you will have as a player. I plan to let each unique Google login play as one character per class, so you will get an opportunity to try everything.

Anyway, looking forward to seeing what game ideas everyone else implements, and hoping “annoying plants” isn’t an overdone take on the theme