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Playing The Escape

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the cue-howard-shore-music dept.

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."

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  1. Any allusions to the Prisoner? by Quirk · · Score: 4, Interesting
    There's been chatter off and on about a game based on the TV show The Prisoner. Patrick McGoohan's portrayal of prisoner six of one is great in a British understated way. The idea of a prisoner incarcerated because he knows too much sensitive government information may not be too fictional today. Maybe Guantanamo Bay is soon to be a "retirement" centre.

    The Escape sounds like it has the Kafkaesque, byzantine plot lines reminescent of the Prisoner.

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  2. A good idea if... by sumdeus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This sounds like a reasonably fun concept given they keep the price down. I think that a team atmosphere in this type of game would be great as well. If you could show up with a group of friends and have a task to complete as a group. Perhaps that's version 2!

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  3. dreampark by headonfire · · Score: 5, Interesting

    sounds like a step closer to 'Dreampark', as in the novels by Steven Barnes and Larry Niven. Immersive real-life roleplaying games. If you haven't read the series yet, go do it. A neat idea, well-executed on paper.

  4. Woo! by electrichamster · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've been wanting something like this for YEARS!

    In my imaginary version I wanted a real-life CTF situation based on paintball or similar that took place in a massive area full of buildings and the like - similar to normal paintball, but over a number of days and a much much larger playing field.

    If you took the tech from this game and combined it with a much larger playing field, teams, a much longer game time (in the order of a weekend) and some form of decent forfeit for losing (say, a deposit), you'd have my perfect game!

  5. Er.. by AWhiteFlame · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And we thought Flight Sim was bad for the Terrorists.. Now virtual training for prison escapees!

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