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Public Transit Reality Game
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."
Is it just me or does anyone else find games fun because all you need is your thumbs?
I have bad legs (was born with a club foot etc. and had a lot of surgery to fix it, but still not perfect) and find things like this and DDR more painful then fun.
So for some people who can enjoy them, WTF is the fun in stamping on pads or riding trains?
I like muppets.
Two years ago I was at an IDSA student conference in Boston with my classmates. The building they held the conference in was about 15 stories tall, and there was a lightboard on one of the walls that said which floor each elevator was on. We tracked down two walkie-talkies and did this basic premise. One person would get on the elevators and have a 30 second head start, one person would then follow with a walkie talkie, and a third person would stand at the lightboard with the other walkie talkie, trying to lead the chaser to the runner.
We had to make additional rules to make it possible in a reasonable amount of time, you couldn't send the elevator to a floor without actually being on it, or get on the same elevator twice in a row. We also made the floor with the conference on it off-limits.
If you ever get a chance to play a game like this I highly reccomend it, especially if it's inappropriate for the situation.
So, thoroughly jet lagged, I decided to do all of the touristy places in London -- St Paul's, Westminster Abbey, Piccadily Circus, etc -- using a day pass to the Tube.
I would go to a station, pick out some name of some destination I had heard of, pick out a route, board a train, and off I would go.
This method would take me smack dab in the middle of all of these places, but of course I had no idea how I had gotten there because all of the travel was under ground -- I would just materialize in one or other scene out of a tourist guidebook in the manner of a Star Trek transporter just beaming me there.
It was a bit disconcerting because one would pop out of the ground and it took a while to get one's bearings. And like Kirk telling his compatriots "remember where we parked!", it was helpful to remember how to get back to the Underground Station.
If person X has three different modes of transportation available to utilize, a bonus card to make one secret move at any time, and is informed of the detectives' positions at *all* times, then how can they possibly catch him?