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Human Brain Cloud: Massively Multiplayer Word Association Game

humanbraincloud_shot1.gifThis is the first in a series of mini projects that I will be posting here. Human Brain Cloud is basically a massively multiplayer word association game where it gives you a word, and you type in the first thing that comes to mind. In this way, the brain cloud grows to become a giant network of interconnected words and phrases. The network started with just one word - “volcano“. All other words (several thousand at this point!!) have been submitted by visitors to the site. Play with it here

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14 Responses to “Human Brain Cloud: Massively Multiplayer Word Association Game”

  1. Shalin UNITED STATES Says:
    July 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 am

    HumanBrainCloud -> Fantastic!
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    Brilliant!

  2. noop UNITED STATES Says:
    July 3rd, 2007 at 1:54 pm

    awesome!

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  6. Kyle UNITED STATES Says:
    July 5th, 2007 at 11:10 am

    Shalin beat me to it. Amazing stuff!

    I want the “how crazy am I option?” to see how I rank when I type in “mass suicide” as the first response to “buttered popcorn.”

  7. Kyle Gabler UNITED STATES Says:
    July 5th, 2007 at 11:55 am

    Thanks guys! Yeah, I’m not currently displaying your top secret enemy combatant score, but I am indeed secretly collecting it and piping it over to homeland security in accordance with the patriot act. happy 4th of july

    (sorry about the confusion, that’s not actually true, be as bad as you want..)
    -kyle!

  8. Paul UNITED STATES Says:
    July 6th, 2007 at 6:31 am

    When is the site coming back?

  9. Daisy UNITED STATES Says:
    July 6th, 2007 at 10:16 am

    Such a cool idea! You’re brilliant!

  10. Frankie UNITED STATES Says:
    July 23rd, 2007 at 1:23 am

    When will the site be back up? I saw this on Joystiq and I was so excited until I saw the error that the game was down for some quota exceeded?

  11. Kyle Gabler UNITED STATES Says:
    July 23rd, 2007 at 1:28 am

    Paul, Frankie, and anyone else wondering why the site has “exceeded it’s CPU quota” - the site gets that error when it gets very busy, I never expected this project would become popular enough to regularly crash the server! I guess that’s a good and a bad thing. Luckily, the downtime only lasts for a couple minutes, so keep checking back. I’m trying to fix the problem in the meantime.

  12. Hammie UNITED STATES Says:
    August 20th, 2007 at 8:37 am

    Now THIS is my kind of game.

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