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Public Transit Reality Game

Posted by Zonk on from the elementary,-my-dear-holmes dept.

Corngood writes "Like Pacmahattan, but with streetcars. Toronto designer Joel Friesen has created a giant game of tag using cell phones and Toronto's public transit system. Live Action Scotland Yard (L.A.S.Y.) is a giant game of hide and seek. One guy tries to hide by using the subway system while three or four other people have to find out where he is by the clues he leaves and the dispatchers phoned in instructions. The game starts this Saturday the 23rd, he's looking for more players. It's free, promotes public transport, and there will be beers afterwards."

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  1. Who read the page? lol by someguy456 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    reat idea..

    Since it is 'Live action' though would be good to come up with a way to get away from the 'turn based' concept of the board game and move towards a more real-time based game.

    Would also be interresting to incorporate clues as to mr. X's whereabouts instead of completely revealing the location.

    Would also be good to reduce the person at HQ to one or two people who relay the clues to the detectives to alow more people to be out in the field.

    --
    Robert Bindler
    A Computer Science student's views on technology.
  2. I know I'm a party-pooper, but ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is NOT the time for (deliberately) anomalous behaviour on public transit.

    1. Re:I know I'm a party-pooper, but ... by Malc · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Oh don't be such a drama queen. Life goes on, and more importantly it must be seen to go on. Some irrelevant wankers with bombs aren't going to interrupt this. Well, at least I'm certainly not going to give them the time of day and change how I behave. And you willing to help them (e.g. by acknowledging them)?

    2. Re:I know I'm a party-pooper, but ... by CGP314 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      This is NOT the time for (deliberately) anomalous behaviour on public transit.

      OK. We'll have everyone sit on their asses doing nothing interesting until when it IS the time. How long should we wait? One month? A year? Five years?

      -Colin

  3. Perhaps Dangerous by Laivincolmo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How long will it be before one of these player, just trying to have fun, will be arrested for suspicious behavior around public transportation? The times we live in are sad.

    1. Re:Perhaps Dangerous by HermanAB · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Relax d00d - this is Canada. There are a few places left in the world where people are reasonably sane and the police are friendly and helpful...

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      Oh well, what the hell...
    2. Re:Perhaps Dangerous by wing03 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      How long will it be before one of these player, just trying to have fun, will be arrested for suspicious behavior around public transportation? The times we live in are sad.

      With a big X on a red shirt and a D on a yellow shirt....

      The location looks very much like the heart of downtown Toronto. I think they'll fit right in with University of Toronto engineering students doing goofy things and looking like a sore thumb.

  4. Free by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 3, Insightful
    there will be beers afterwards

    Free beers? That's an importnat factor in the decision tree.

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    "It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
  5. Maybe I'm missing something by temi · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or maybe it's just me. I feel like a game like this catching on around the tech world is really a bad idea. In the wake of terrorist bombings on mass transit and cellphone detonation scares, its kind of like playing soccer in a field of landmines....

  6. Re:erm by Mozk · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well when you say stamping on pads or riding trains, it doesn't sound fun at all. That'd be like me saying WTF is the fun in pushing buttons. There's more to it than that.

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    No existe.
  7. Re:Great moments in timing by Clueless+Moron · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Introverted, suspicious-looking people acting strange on public transportation. What a wonderful point in history to do this!

    What it means is that in Canada the terrorists have not won.