Can online spaces be designed so that the benefits of frictionless mass participation outweigh the costs? Josh Wardle, the creator of Wordle, is on a quest to find out.
the simple game
If Place sounds like a minimalist conceptual-art project, that may be because Wardle trained as a minimalist conceptual artist. He grew up in South Wales and moved to Oregon, in 2008, to get an M.F.A. in digital art. One of his few non-digital pieces, an installation in a physical gallery, was called “This Button.” People who entered the gallery saw a red button on a pedestal, and a timer showing how long it had been since the button had been pressed.
Wardle, who grew up in South Wales, trained as a minimalist conceptual artist and moved to Oregon, in 2008, to get an M.F.A. in digital art.For April Fools’ Day in 2016, Wardle made Robin, another Reddit game with a pop-psychology premise. Two strangers were paired in a small chatroom and then given three options: stay in the small room, merge with others to form a bigger room, or abandon the chat. The moral of the game was that bigger is not always better, and people seemed to get it.
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