Iconographic Violence: Dot War

It's the social web game du jour! It's hilariously goofy. Basically, Dot War allows you to take 2 twitter account icons and wage a war against one another, by a process that transforms the icons into incy soldiers. It's a little like Gratuitous Space Battles in that it's the layout of colours in your icon that determines which mix of the various soldier types you get - so your chances of winning against any given opponent. It's especially so in the easy mode where the troops go and fight automatically. There's more skill in the mode where you get to give orders and so are able to squeeze a win. The aim is - basically - to do more damage to the opponents crystals than they do to yours. You don't even need a twitter icon to be yours to fight - just enter in any names. You can see it in action below, and to start you off, you pick fights with RPS, Alec, Jim, John, Quinns and Me.