A Color Game week
Nothing, the saying goes, ruins your Friday like realising it's a Tuesday. Fortunately there's procrastination. Our data show Color-Gamers are most likely to open the app on Tuesdays, following an
The Color-Game-o-Scope
It’s been six months since we launched the Color Game App. The project will last for another half year before we make all our hypotheses public. For us, the Color Game is an experiment in cultural
It’s Color Game o’clock!
Most of us prefer to play live, with players who happen to be present on line at the same moment. But not every hour is a green-dots hour. What's a Color-Gamer to do?
With our Color Game clock
How Color Game pseudonyms work
The posts on this blog explore the digital life of the Color Game, a gaming app launched by our lab. Our goal: inventing a universal language without words, and recording its birth in data. To find
How the best color-gamers got there
The posts on this blog explore the digital life of the Color Game, a gaming app launched by our lab. Its goal: inventing a universal language without words, and recording its birth in data. To find
How the Color Game’s players mastered the game
The posts on this blog explore the digital life of the Color Game, a gaming app launched by our lab (www.shh.mpg.de/94549/themintgroup). Our goal: documenting the evolution of a new language without
Frequently Asked Questions
Players of the Color Game frequently ask:
My friend and I connected at the same moment, but I can't see anyone to play live with — is this normal?
Yes. The Color Game divides players into
The Color Game’s World
Launching the Color Game was a shot in the dark. Who would hear about it? Who would play it? Would they like it enough to go on playing? Two weeks after the public launch, the Color Game's reach went
Introducing the Color Game
Last week, the Color Game (colorgame.net), the first smartphone app specifically designed to study the dynamics of language evolution was launched by our team at the Max Planck Institute for the