Blogbott Games ~repack~ May 2026

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).

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. blogbott games

Three core mechanics: (1) Trigger-response puzzles (2) Collaborative narrative generation (3) High-score persistence via blog metadata Unlike real-time bots

game bots, blog games, automated play, procedural rhetoric Twitter gaming bots

Clarify the term "blogbott" as either a historical artifact or a proposed category.