Tomorrow marks the last ConQwest "Big Game" of 2005 taking place in Portland, Oregon. Big Games mark the confluence
of the real and virtual. In this orchestrated event, people congregate in one general location, say Downtown Portland,
and start playing a big game on city streets. An early big game was a simulation of PacMan using real people running
around the streets of Manhattan. The controller used cellular communications to tell PacMan which way to run, and the
ghosts tried to find him.
ConQwest is a sort of treasure hunt where players roam the city to find cellphone-readable Semacode pictures for
points. The winning team gets $5000 donated to their school. Details on this and other Big Games are on
PlayAreaCode. And watch the
live event unfold Saturday, May 28th, 11:00AM
PST.
I am a fan of big games and the convergence of social and virtual interaction really intrigues me, especially when it
comes to gaming!
(via the Unwired list)
