Call for preservation of ephemeral bot game logs.
game bots, blog games, automated play, procedural rhetoric
Why blogbott games failed (platform API changes, spam filters) vs. why they matter (precursors to modern Alexa/Google Home games). blogbott games
From Bots to Blogs: A Taxonomy of Automated Game Agents in Social Publishing Environments
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. Call for preservation of ephemeral bot game logs
Three core mechanics: (1) Trigger-response puzzles (2) Collaborative narrative generation (3) High-score persistence via blog metadata
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). From Bots to Blogs: A Taxonomy of Automated
Clarify the term "blogbott" as either a historical artifact or a proposed category.