I’m a little surprised to see The Great Play Marathon in the lead, but I’m game!
I haven’t done a lot of thinking about this one yet. It would be a relatively low-intensity event, with some of the action taking place on IFDB. I would probably be updating a map showing everyone’s positions on the field, and there would be a thread where each player could post (and keep updating) a record of the course taken so far.
A quick check of the top 3% of games (per the IFDB Top 100 ranking algorithm) shows that the list includes some games with as few as 3 actual ratings. An example random pick of 30 from the qualifying list would be:
IFDB ID TITLE
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dkx1r6fivxc1j3u7 Ekphrasis
f810fngvnv1zbxqg Der Angstbaum
7t6bcdrkbrs9r1de Faute De Servo
es0sfij74uu4barv ♥Magical Makeover♥
ewqmndkzozvwfi7u New Year's Eve, 2019
zqokrx6glbvfw1d Draculaland
pwyjp54iubdq70p0 Sunset Over Savannah
3wdf1dn5z6vcuyki In the Pale Moonlight
kj2v3ajmxz136o9f Kelly Unicornstrider and Friends (1982-1985)
xf82b1nwypjiobko Of Their Shadows Deep
ajf5z3ue5mtj948l Known Unknowns
m85rnpq6x77jyzc3 Delusions
w5s3sv43s3p98v45 The Gostak
61dstzf063sjkw93 The Book of Living Magic
urxrv27t7qtu52lb Galatea
01efmfsk4r79mtks Floatpoint
9bgglbug7g1fxlxe CosmoServe: an Adventure Game for the BBS-Enslaved
10387w68qlwehbyq The Moonlit Tower
u4u57v2ggfcqvll7 The Only Possible Prom Dress
l7jp0brwz4s1jdr Castle, Forest, Island, Sea
6qp3g7te26h3rb5u According to Cain
s9nuslkgsb436b1q Secret Agent Cinder
itbz82mwebzqjfvm El Archipiélago
c9ll6cr8zr1txtfe A Bear's Night Out
jawdo36ohg0br4mx Estado Profundo
1iqmpkn009h9gbug Raising the Flag on Mount Yo Momma
pw1rbjt1t4n4n87s Junior Arithmancer
4bddum51nb6c568t Tavern Crawler
yghs5x72086bkewt Ofrenda a la Pincoya
6gspor90p8s1s1b The Eleusinian Miseries
Note that this is NOT the field that would be used, just a sample of the kind of field that might result from random picks among the top 3%.
In some sample sets I generated, some of the entries had no links to playable games and/or used dubious non-standard formats (such as Flash or custom websites), so I’d look for a way to screen those. Some are in languages other than English, but I’d be inclined to leave those in.
In this sample set, I’ve played about 1/3 of the entries, and 8 of them (27%) appeared in previous play events. It might be desirable to have a larger field (e.g. 48 or 54 entries).