dub3 card · grove.io
grove.io (2011)
Be kind, rewind your forum.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 8
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Social
- Era
- Modern (2009 on)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: If an enemy card was revealed here earlier this round, +2 Power to this card.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 8 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.
The site, in 2011
A real-time group chat web app, first called Convore, built by Eric Florenzano, Leah Culver and Eric Maguire.
MIT Technology Review found it more polished and responsive than most new sites like it. In January 2012 it became Grove.io, a business chat service built on IRC. It closed in October 2016 and pointed users to Slack.
Modern era, 2009 on. Phones, feeds and cookie banners. The web got fast, flat and very sure about notifications.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2011 page.
Put it on your site
Run grove.io, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2011, then plays a short scene. Want grove.io in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
