Easy Tour: Gretchen's Diary

Follow along as Gretchen lives the WWO reality day by day. Gretchen will show you how to follow along as players chronicled the "alternate reality" of a global oil shock and its dire effect upon everyday life in the USA and other countries.

For Teachers: WWO Lesson Plans

Coming in February 2008: A set of lesson plans that will enable middle and high school teachers to conduct their own "mini-WWO" class event. The lessons will tie into contemporary U.S. history, world history, current events, economics and government (energy policy and sustainability), humanities and creative writing/journalism.

All Our Guides

"Guides" are lists of selected links to stories within the WWO archive. You can use a guide to experience just the best stories, or to focus on stories along a particular topic or theme. (Feel free to create and submit your own guide.)

Enter The Archive!

People played WWO for 32 days (April 30 to June 1, 2007). Each day of real time was a week in game time, so they lived through the first 32 weeks of the next oil crisis. You can use the archive's Time Machine to visit any week, and read the reports and view the stories that were posted that week.

WEEK 1: The Story From The Beginning

To begin the WWO story at the beginning, go to Week 1. In this week, people respond to the breaking news that oil supply is dropping below demand worldwide by about 5%.

WEEK 32: The Story At The End

Week 32 is the last week of the simulation. The WWO website links to over 1500 stories at this point. You can use the WWO search feature or "tag cloud" to sort out the stories you wish to read.

All-Week Index

All the weeks of the simulation are listed here, along with their main headlines.

What Am I Looking At? Using The Archive

How do I navigate my way around the WWO site? You'll find the guidebook here.

Broken Link? Try Our Back-Up Archive

WWO is made up of stories that players uploaded to sites such as LiveJournal, YouTube, Flickr and so on; we link to these host sites from the WWO site. As time goes on, these links may break. If you find a broken link, try the back-up archive at www.archive-it.org...

The Game Seems To Be Over! Can I Still Play?

We're no longer publishing links to in-game stories (unless they're really good). But everyone is welcome to sign up as a Netizen Hero and to participate in "WWO Lives," our ongoing blog about all matters WWO.

Credits

How many people does it take to stage an oil crisis? Who were they, and what did they do? All is revealed on the Credits page.

Contact Us

Use this page to contact Ken Eklund and the WWO team.