Vampires on IRC - Chris Lauer

This week’s post will be all about communication … well, IRC fits the criteria because that’s all IRC is really … communication!

The past two weeks have been fairly fun while using IRC.  The server I’m using has a fun game called Vampire located in a room/channel called #Vampire. It is really fun game to play with other people. The rules are really simple.  If you are the vampire kill everyone else … if you’re not the vampire then you want to kill the vampire … simple right? Actually it’s not, because you have to kill someone each “day” and you won’t know if they are the vampire or not unless you possess the power of the seer, which can see if someone is a vampire or not. I played the vampire game with a group of 6-15 people and found after a certain number of people join you have two vampires which makes things really interesting.  All in all it was very fun game to play and everyone always accused someone else of being the vampire although the winner pretty much came down to who had the most friends or who had greater influence in the game.

After playing the Vampire game I was interested in what other games there were that people would play … this lead me to the trivia game channel called #Trivia.  Yes it’s exactly what it sounds like … a trivia game. I had joined the game channel and started playing right away … this game was blurting out random questions like [09:13] <~TriviaBot>  037.949  Where was the greatest snowfall ever recorded in a single storm ?  … one thing I noticed people do is flood/spam the channel with useless letters as such “akjdfhaklhj”. This tends to ruin the game but what is even worse is when someone has Google upon and searches for all the answers cause then it takes away the trivia part of the game.

After spending some time on those two games I went into a channel that is used for a game I play online … while I knew some of the people in there I noticed that a lot of people just sit there waiting for something to happen … very rarely is there a conversation … although when a conversation does start-up it does last for some time.  There is one thing I do not like about IRC … it is prone to a lot of spam advertisements (which as the server rules state is forbidden). There is also some immature people who like to type profanity for everyone to see which I didn’t like cause well I don’t use it myself so why should they?

All in all this was very fun week for me on IRC cause well I got to play some games and I even won a couple vampire games.