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

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!

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!

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!