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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."
If the guy decided to give out fake clues
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Its an activity taking place in Canada. The part about having beer afterward is implied.
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.
Wow, hide and seek with cell phones....
"A Lisp programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing." - Alan Perlis
Good to know.
My sig is blank, I typed this by hand.
Boss: So, Mr. Jones, What did you do on your lunch break?
Mr.Jones: Well, a couple of my coworkers and I played this really cool game of high-tech tag!! I was AWSOME!!
Boss: I See. {ahem}. Do you know you're an adult, Mr. Jones?
Mr.Jones: Yes, I know it sounds dumb, but it was really REALLY FUN!
The winner will be the first one who makes it to Mornington Crescent.
this is awsome. i spent many years of my youth enjoying scotland yard. a truly fantastic game; get the boardgame or get the recent OS independent python implmeneted London Law free computer game remake (as mentioned on slashdot).
the down sides:
- cell phone reception in the tube: ass.
- planting RFID clues will get you shot as a terrorist.
- (generall) RFID lacks sufficient range to be truly useful for this
it'd be much cooler if you could start tagging the real world & leaving markups on things. subways, unfortunately, while one of the coolest places to do this, are also some of the most likely to get you shot on sight for being a terrorist.
myren
This is NOT the time for (deliberately) anomalous behaviour on public transit.
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.
Free beers? That's an importnat factor in the decision tree.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
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....
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.
No existe.
I'm not falling for that one again...
This is based on a reasonably enjoyable board game.g ame
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_Yard_board_
I was in the Bronx yesterday and someone had just finished up a live game of Unreal Tournament,...oh, maybe it was just a driveby shooting.
What it means is that in Canada the terrorists have not won.
BlindMan: What the hell is so great about being able to interpet various intensities of light?
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.
I don't have any thumbs you insensitive clode...
From the TTC website:
Unlimited* one-day travel on Saturdays**, Sundays and statutory holidays from the start of service until 5:30 a.m. the next morning, for a group of up to 6 people:
2 adults alone, or with up to 4 Children/Youths (Youth = *19 years of age or under). or
1 adult alone, or with up to 5 Children/Youths (Youth = *19 years of age or under).
More info at http://www.toronto.ca/ttc
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