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Playing The Escape
erich666 writes "Wired reports on 'La Fuga' (The Escape), a real-world game. You overcome physical and mental challenges to escape a prison. Not just any live-action role playing game, this one is run in a $20 million facility in Madrid. A networked PDA and RFID tag keep you in touch while you play. The company is now building a 30,000-square-foot game center at 49th and Broadway in New York City." From the article: "The screen goes static and then switches to a view of a sweaty prisoner with a 5 o'clock shadow who tells me that I can liberate myself and all the other drones stuck in the prison. Those who have escaped before me will contact me to assist in my quest. The door opens, and I enter a sort of closet before another door opens to reveal a metal air duct. I try to step in, but I slip, fall hard on my ass, and slide down the chute into a room containing a baggage carousel surrounded by screens."
I wonder how fast someone will hack this! Does padding on your rear count?
---In a time of Chimpanzees I was a Monkey.
The real question on everyone's mind: How long until VR pr0n?
So it begins.
My bad, couldn't resist
This gives me the perfect opportunity to practice. Next time I won't be in for nearly as long.
~= scwizard =~
sounds like a step closer to 'Dreampark', as in the novels by Steven Barnes and Larry Niven.
Wow, futuristic sci-fi AND there's a dragon on the cover! That's some hardcore geekerature there.
Help me take back Slashdot. When did 'News for Nerds' become 'FUD and Conspiracy Theories for Extremist Nutjobs'?
It reminds me of trying to find my way out of the club the other night after six boilermakers five shots of tequilla and something called a New York nipple twister...
From the Article:
...and burrowed through a mass of grapefruit-sized plastic spheres.
What, he went to Chuck E. Cheese?
This sounds like a solid design effort, worthy of most video game levels.
After all, I see prisons with baggage carousels _all the time_.
I hope this company has henchmen erm actors playing the role of henchmen that blindfold, kidnap and drops your unsuspecting bosses and coworkers into this prison, where they only find out its a game when I'm waiting for them behind plexiglass at the end.
I'll even order a dvd of that.
If you have DDR for Playstation, you can plug in a regular Playstation controller instead of using the DDR mats and play it that way. None of that pesky exercise, plus it's way easier to win.
You should seriously consider an exiting and rewarding career in the US armed forces.
... do you wake up disoriented and have to take analgesic to do anything useful?
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
The door opens...
WTF? What kind of prison break is that? Give the players a spoon and ten years to dig a hole!
Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
Maybe they should think of something a bit more intuitive, such as a real-life game styled after Grand Theft Auto. It would take place in a facility--er, rather, a city--built for the purpose, with actors serving as cops. You steal various vehicles, have high speed chases, crash into things... There is always a goal that you try to achieve. For example, there may be a shipment of a rare vehicle arriving, and your task, working for some mob boss, is to steal that vehicle and drive it to a certain facility. The game might last several hours. You win if you succeed in bringing the vehicle. You fail if you're arrested by the cops. Each time someone plays the game, things change a bit.
"Lord knows, we could use more interactive (read: physical) forms of entertainment in this country."
What! You mean sex isn't enough?