game bots, blog games, automated play, procedural rhetoric
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). blogbott games
Three core mechanics: (1) Trigger-response puzzles (2) Collaborative narrative generation (3) High-score persistence via blog metadata game bots, blog games, automated play, procedural rhetoric
From Bots to Blogs: A Taxonomy of Automated Game Agents in Social Publishing Environments procedural rhetoric Unlike real-time bots
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.