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Pirates!

Posted by michael on from the keelhaul-the-landlubbers dept.

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."

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  1. The problem with this idea is by tmark · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Worried that too much computer gaming stunts your social skills?
    Somehow I suspect that interacting with the kind of people who would play this game would just further stunt /. reader's social skills.