January 23rd, 2021

The folks at @RoamBounties have been having all together too much fun It is time we entered the fray For the next 3 months, we'll announce a new challenge every two weeks, for each challenge we'll distribute $10,000 to those whose public work pushes the frontier the farthest.

I'll announce the first challenge in the next 48 hours. If you choose to play - share your ideas, progress, videos, and examples with the RoamGames hashtag. And know, these games are not a competition - per se...Our hope is they will be a spectacle, a jam session

To that end, we will be judging not just on the work you put forward - but how the Intermediate Packets you share along the way inspire others -- how you help to grow the commons, and inspire others in the #roamcult faithful.. what others build on your foundation....

We're in the opening act, the very beginning of a new way of thinking, learning, building together.

If you're somewhat confused about what these RoamGames actually are - or how they work -- don't worry, my teammates at @RoamResearch had no idea what I was talking about either, and they learned about this the same time you did. Such is the tax for flowery language.

I'll be a bit more clear.

What will the challenges look like specifically? If I told you now, I'd have to start the clock. Also - to be honest... I don't know either. I'm making this up as I go. I can give you some suggestions of ideas and skills you may want to brush up on now though...

First - I would look at the ideas that @worrydream put forward here, and consider the kinds of "Context Sensitive Information Graphics" that do not yet exist, but perhaps could, and perhaps should.

I would also consider playing with the new .class-tags Any tag you add that starts with a . will add the class of that page to the block

I highly recommend "Reinventing Discovery" from @michael_nielsen

I would probably also look into some of the absolutely wild things that folks in #roamcult have already done with roam42.com and Roam JS

This S**t is 🍌 B. A. N. A. N. A. S.

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