Wow, it's deceptively hard to come up with good examples for this! You're right, most of the minigames that try to achieve this turn into 'how to beat the game mechanics' and less 'create shit with friends', even if it's a solid game like portal and so on. Very subversive sort of medium, no wonder you dig this topic so much. :P
(attempts at) examples:
- iscribble was a ye olde drawing platform where you and a gang of 2-5 friends could join a private board and draw whatever the hell you want - however, it often devolved into cute craft-like games. You draw a thing, you let the other person draw on top, so on, like a visual version of telephone? (Sometimes we'd also try to draw random characters interacting with each other without realizing who the other person was drawing at first. ALWAYS FUN - especially when you got ... sephiroth and then ness from earthbound making silly faces at each other, haha.
- I feel like the one true game platform that lends to this phenomenon would be the Nintendo DS with its focus on 'mobile and friendly playing with others'? like, there's nothing coming off the top of my head, but someone with a better knowledge of its non-franchise library might be able to pick out one or two titles that tried this. Bits of Animal Crossing feels like it would fit (people creating custom patterns to share with others?), but other bits don't.
- oh! I got one! Way back in the deviantart heydays, OCT's used to be HUGE - aka Original Character Tournaments. You'd have a group (10+) of people sign on, make their own OC that would specifically 'battle' the other OC's ... except the kicker is that you 'won' by creating the most well written/drawn comic strip by showing -how- your OC beat the other person's OC. Absolutely no fan-characters allowed, too. It was delightfully self-moderated when done well; as the better the artist/writers, the less they relied on cheap tricks like godmodding and stuff, and in the end, everyone got a really cool fighting-game like series of comic strips to follow with a decent plot. There's a number of OC's that literally got their own fandoms with how well written they were; Endling (http://endling.deviantart.com/gallery/26460867/OCTs) for example is the most well known artist in that circle. Unknown-person is the other one that did SHOCKINGLY GOOD flash animations for their entries (http://unknown-person.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&sort=popularity) (watch the ones with Karl in them; good god there were so many fangirls over that dude ahaha) (what do you mean I was one of them NOPE)
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Date: 2015-07-15 05:55 pm (UTC)(attempts at) examples:
- iscribble was a ye olde drawing platform where you and a gang of 2-5 friends could join a private board and draw whatever the hell you want - however, it often devolved into cute craft-like games. You draw a thing, you let the other person draw on top, so on, like a visual version of telephone? (Sometimes we'd also try to draw random characters interacting with each other without realizing who the other person was drawing at first. ALWAYS FUN - especially when you got ... sephiroth and then ness from earthbound making silly faces at each other, haha.
- I feel like the one true game platform that lends to this phenomenon would be the Nintendo DS with its focus on 'mobile and friendly playing with others'? like, there's nothing coming off the top of my head, but someone with a better knowledge of its non-franchise library might be able to pick out one or two titles that tried this. Bits of Animal Crossing feels like it would fit (people creating custom patterns to share with others?), but other bits don't.
- oh! I got one! Way back in the deviantart heydays, OCT's used to be HUGE - aka Original Character Tournaments. You'd have a group (10+) of people sign on, make their own OC that would specifically 'battle' the other OC's ... except the kicker is that you 'won' by creating the most well written/drawn comic strip by showing -how- your OC beat the other person's OC. Absolutely no fan-characters allowed, too. It was delightfully self-moderated when done well; as the better the artist/writers, the less they relied on cheap tricks like godmodding and stuff, and in the end, everyone got a really cool fighting-game like series of comic strips to follow with a decent plot. There's a number of OC's that literally got their own fandoms with how well written they were; Endling (http://endling.deviantart.com/gallery/26460867/OCTs) for example is the most well known artist in that circle. Unknown-person is the other one that did SHOCKINGLY GOOD flash animations for their entries (http://unknown-person.deviantart.com/gallery/?catpath=%2F&sort=popularity) (watch the ones with Karl in them; good god there were so many fangirls over that dude ahaha) (what do you mean I was one of them NOPE)
... now you're making me miss those days, awww.