1. A method for interacting with a computer based application, comprising: performing the computer based application including interacting with one or more actively engaged users; automatically sensing one or more physical properties of one or more entities not actively engaged with the computer based application; determining that the one or more entities not actively engaged with the computer based application have performed a predetermined action; automatically changing a runtime condition of the computer based application in response to determining that one or more entities not actively engaged with the computer based application have performed the predetermined action; and automatically reporting the changing of the runtime condition in a user interface of the computer based application.