Pirates!

fm6 writes: "Worried that too much computer gaming stunts your social skills? Try Pirates! You simulate a voyage of discovery, trade, and plunder by walking around a physical gaming area carrying a PDA equipped with a proximity sensor. Encounters with other players (including naval battles) happen when the two players actually approach each other. Here's an article on Business 2.0."

Comments

geekier lazer tag

[autoshoes]

Think of it as an even geekier, tamer version of laser tag

oh yes, and we all know how great lazer tag was.

somehow i think making it "geekier" and "tamer" are going to help.

Been there, done that...

[HongPong]

I'm chillin' on the corner, a deal going down, I pass a fresh CD-R to a comrade, and some old biddy's all up in my face like "Pirates! Pirates!" and I tell her to fuzz off like the Medicare Momma she is.

Fuckin' A, man, it's gettin' so you can't run a Carracho server in this town without gettin' bitched at by the self-appointed warez hounds. I tell ya...

Arr!

[shiwala]

From the article...

Upon arriving at an island, a player might find something valuable, such as tobacco.

I get the feeling that the people who will be playing this game might need something more valuable...soap!

Re:Productivity

[KaareKveldsmat]

Stopping by the boss' office, and plunder him silly.. then kill him and sink his ship..
and o.. btw.. Can I have a raise?

How ironic will this be when...

[sludgely]

the game IS pirated and everyone who plays it actually ARE pirates.

What crap

[thejake316]

Hey /. editors, I realize you're all really busy, what with your exhaustive testing of this code, extensive grammar and spelling checks for your one-sentence editorial comments on every article, modding people you disagree with down to -1 right before stories are archived (that one's not sarcastic), putting in incredibly useful links to keywords in everything2, and justifying to whomever the hell is paying for this mess (I assume still some abstraction of VA "fill up the red toner before you print the company financials" Linux) that you're not doing more harm than good, but please be more careful about what slips past your "editors" and perhaps come up with some better form of selecting what gets published on your site.

I'm feeling generous, so here are some suggestions, free of charge:

• Magic 8 ball
• The I Ching
• Rochambeau a la Cartman

Pirates!

[Dr. Awktagon]

A fun game in which players are given PDA's with infrared transmitters, and MP3 copies of five popular songs, chosen randomly out of 100. Each person has to convince others to share copies of their songs, and whoever collects all 100 first, wins the game!

Sounds easy, right? But watch out! Hillary ®osen and her crack gang of ©opyright police are out in full force, posing as regular players, and whenever you try and share with them, they take all your songs and you have to start over!

It's loads of fun! And remember, sharing is stealing!

Piracy

[Phroggy]

So where can we pirate this game?

Microprose game?

[Snuffub]

Is this based on the old Micro Prose game by the same name? That game could improve your social skills too, I mean how else would i learn to sweep a beautiful young heires off her feet with my pirate antics?

Duh!

[Futurepower(tm)]

Worried that too much computer gaming stunts your social skills? Try Pirates!

Worried that too much computer gaming stunts your social skills? Try socializing!