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ana said: > This may be an unusual request for this list: apologies beforehand but > your input will be invaluable. have you recently attended any > conference/symposium proposing team activities involving geo-location > software? An example of what i have in mind: Blast Theory/Mixed Reality > Lab's "Uncle Roy is all Around you" with players online and on the > street (PDAs and GPS devices involved). But it could be something less > performance-oriented... > This isn't strictly mixed reality, but the best conference-game i've seen is one that Eirk Zimmerman did for Creative Time's 'BLUR' conference in New York a few years ago. When you registered and got your little ID tag in a plastic wallet, the wallet also contained 3-4 game cards, describing actions that you could use the cards to enable. You had to 'play' the cards on other delegates at the conference over the 3 days of the event. The cards either described actions, like 'stop talking' or 'tell me which of the other delegates you most fancy'; deferred actions, like 'start a rumour about someone else at the conference'; or meta-game actions, like 'give me all your cards'. For the first day, people mainly talked about the game, but on the second day, Vuk Cosic (i think) played a 'stop talking' card to a speaker during a particularly dull presentation, and from then on people started using the cards for all sorts of social engineering. Gamelab have done three similar games at the Games Developers' Forums: http://www.gmlb.com/games/biteme.html http://www.gmlb.com/games/leviathan.html http://www.gmlb.com/games/abccity.html they're great fun! matt