The Come Out and Play Festival is a street games fesitval dedicated to exploring new styles of games and play.

Games

The festival will run June 4-6 in Brooklyn, New York. Games will start at several different locations. The starting location will be noted next to each game. If you want more details on the game, visit the Brooklyn Lyceum during the festival.

Sign-ups
To sign up for a game visit the festival headquarters from June 4-6 at the Brooklyn Lyceum to reserve a slot. We are scrapping online sign-ups this year as they proved unreliable in past years.

Slots are awarded on a first-come serve basis, with additional players placed on a waiting list. You must show up for a game 15 minutes before the start time to claim your spot. Five minutes before the game starts we'll call off names. Anyone not present loses their spot and we'll start taking people off the waiting list.

We've generally always had enough slots for players in the past. So if you want to play a game. Show up at the time it's set to run and quite likely you'll be able to play.

2010 Games

Come and play anytime throughout the festival

Scoop
All Weekend: Can be played all weekend
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: family-friendly, radio, creative, badges, persistant
Urban Games Field Reporting

SCVNGR
All Weekend: Can be played all weekend
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: family-friendly, high-tech mobile social game
SCVNGR is a game about going places, doing challenges and earning points!

Humans vs. Zombies
All Weekend: Can be played all weekend
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: action, zombie tag
Human players attempt to survive a "zombie outbreak" by outsmarting a growing group of zombie players.

GPS Alien Attack
All Weekend: Pick up and play all weekend
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: high-tech, iPhone, family-friendly
Want to experience your favorite video game in augmented reality? Come and play GPS Alien Attack.

It Lurks in Gowanus
All Weekend: Pick up and play Friday to Sunday
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: family-friendly, high-tech, scavenger hunt
Solve the canals mystery before you're whacked.

Necropolis Family Tree
All Weekend: Can be played all weekend with a finale on Sunday
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: family-friendly, creativity, puzzle, theatrical
It's time to let the skeletons out of your closet.



Friday June 4, 2010

Come Out & Play 2010 Opening Ceremony
Start Time: Friday June 4 at 7 PM - midnight
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for the Come Out & Play Festival 2010 opening ceremony and party. Get a rundown on games to play throughout the weekend. Join in the fun with loads of amazing party games.

Mary Mack 5000
Start Time: Friday June 4 at the Opening Party
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: party game, musical, theatrical, new take on a classic
We stole it from your little sister, and we're not giving it back.

Humanoid Asteroid
Start Time: Friday June 4 at the Opening Party
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: party game, musical, theatrical, real-world video game
Jump in your ship, man your lasers, and get ready to fend off waves of human asteroids in this dance/game mashup.

Kaboom!
Start Time: Friday June 4 at the Opening Party
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: party game, real-world video game
Stop the Mad Bomber in this live-action version of the Atari classic!

OMMRPG (Offline Multiple Mirror Reflect Positioning Game)
Start Time: Friday June 4 at the Opening Party
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: party game, lasers!
Reflect your Laserlight!

Radar Blip
Start Time: Friday June 4 at 9 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY - From there the game will move down the street to the Old Stone House
Notes: new folk game, night game
Save the night. Fight till the break of dawn.

CounterSquirt: Night-Ops
Start Time: Friday June 4 at 10 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes:outdoor, action, late-night, real-world video game
A squad-based game of water gun tactics.



Saturday June 5, 2010

Field Crumpets
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 10 AM
Location: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: new sport, team
Ten points. One captain. No scrubs.

Unwritten Storybook
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 11 AM
Location: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: creative, narrative, family-friendly
Your story is waiting to be told...

Cross My Heart + Hope to Die
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 3-7 PM NOTE THE NEW TIME!
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: maze, quick-play, family-friendly
A game inspired by the labyrinth of Daedalus, set in a life-size maze.

GENTRIFICATION: THE GAME!
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 12 PM
Location: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: strategic street game, photos, territorial
Turn the neighbourhood upside down in a strategic game of urban brinksmanship. We've got art, lawsuits, and sidewalk chalk!

Ex Arcana
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 12 PM
Location: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: role-playing, cards
Battlestations: Brooklyn!

Geo Melee
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 12 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: high-tech, hide-and-seek, iPhone-required
Your world, your fight.

BIGTWEET!
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 1 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: social, creative
What just happened!

People Watching Plus
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 1 PM
Location: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: experimental, family-friendly
This game takes the restful past-time of people watching and adds an interactive element.

Counter/Demo
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 2 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: theatrical, audio
Demonstrate or counter-demonstrate: the path to victory on the streets is whispered in your ear.

Note: You must sign up for the game and download the audio track in advance by following this link: http://youhavefoundconey.net/counterdemo.html

Shabbat-put!
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 2 PM
Location: Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: new folk game
Olympic games, Sabbath rules.

Pathfindr
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 3 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: high-tech, race
"The Amazing Race" meets "Foursquare."

HALI - Hide And Locate Intruders
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 4 PM
Location: Prospect Park - Meet in the Nethermead. Look for the Come Out & Play balloons.
Notes: high-tech, hide-and-seek, iPhone or Android phone required
They can't see you, but they know where you are.

The GOurmet Game
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 4 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: social, creative
This cooking challenge is hot off the griddle of The Go Game team-building stove.

THE ONE
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 5 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: strategic street game, action, outdoors, multiverse
A game of assassins across the multiverse.

Panel Discussion
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 7 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for a conversation about the best real-world, street and augmented reality games of the last ten years, examining what makes them successful and what designers and players can learn from them.

bAR pong
Start Time: THIS GAME HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: high-tech, drinking game
drop the paddle and get hammered.

Spirits & Sonnets
Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 9 PM after the panel
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: singing, drinking game
A massively multiplayer dueling, drinking and singing game.



Sunday June 6, 2010

SMERSH
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 10 AM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: spy game, stealth, creativity
"The pigeon flies at midnight..."

Were-Birds
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 10 AM
Location: Prospect Park (Long Meadow, enter from Grand Army Plaza)
Notes: family-friendly, strategic
Build a feathered fighting force. Eliminate your rivals. Rule the roost.

Ball-Pop
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 11 AM
Location: Prospect Park (Long Meadow, enter from Grand Army Plaza)
Notes: field game, family-friendly
Mega-huge beach balls + parachutes = wacky fun for the whole family. Pop, pop, you just can't stop!

Silverball
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 12 PM
Location: Prospect Park (Long Meadow, enter from Grand Army Plaza)
Notes: field game, new sport
You ain't seen nothing like it in any amusement hall.

The 2010 First Annual Paper Airplane Derby
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 12 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: creativity, derby
Individuals or teams compete by folding then flying a paper airplane in heats with one ultimate winner (and awards galore!)

Sidewalk Wars
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 12 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: new folk game, street game, quick play
If you've got the connections, you can claim the streets.

The Time Traveler's Knife
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 12 PM
Location: Green-Wood Cemetery
Notes: role-playing, team-based, historical
Brave time travelers take man's first tentative steps into the future, but before they can see the future, they will have to iron out the knots of the past.

Battle of Brooklyn
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 1 PM
Location: Prospect Park - meet at the Boathouse terrace facing the pond
Notes: historical, territorial, family-friendly
Battle in hand-to-flag combat to conquer the park

Square Root!
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 2 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: new folk game, new take on an old classic, family-friendly
4 Square on Steroids

Love's Labour's Lost
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 3 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Notes: theatrical, role-playing
Hide. Sneak. Lie. Run. Woo. Find your true love - and make sure nobody else finds theirs.

Circle Rules Football
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 3 PM
Location: Prospect Park (Long Meadow, enter from Grand Army Plaza)
Notes: new sport
Circle Rules Football is a new, action packed team sport played on a circular field with a giant yoga ball.

COaP 2010 Awards Ceremony
Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 5 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Wrap up Come Out & Play with other players and designers at an awards ceremony to recognize players' choice, best in fest, best use of space, best use of technology, best use of narrative, and best new sport.

Our Mission
The Come Out & Play Festival seeks to provide a forum for new types of public games and play. We want to bring together a public eager to rediscover the world around them through play with designers interested in producing innovative new games and experiences.

Oh yeah, and we want to have city-size fun.

Mailing List
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Information for The Press
  • 2009 Press Release: Recalculating Route (5/26/09)
  • Media Fact Sheet
  • Festival Logo (JPG, Hi-Res)
  • 2009 Branding Image

  • HI-RES PHOTOS FOR PRESS:
  • 2009 Photos, Jim Bearden
  • 2009 Photos, Amanda Bernsohn
  • 2009 Photos, Lia Bulaong
  • 2009 Photos, Guy Chan
  • 2008 Photos, Amanda Bernsohn
  • 2008 Photos, Javier Oddo

  • Press may use images and photos. Please note and (when possible) hyperlink to the festival. When using photos, also note corresponding game title and credit photographer. Photographer's name is indicated by folder title. Game title is indicated in image names. For more information (rules, etc.) about specific games, please visit 2008 schedule or 2009 schedule.

    Photos from 2006 and 2007 available upon request (contact info below)

    Contact
    General Information
    e: gtrefry(at)comeoutandplay(dot)org
    p: 646-280-8311

    Partnership Information
    e: cherdlick(at)comeoutandplay(dot)org
    p: 917-821-3078

    Come Out & Play Festival
    113 Carroll St, #3
    Brooklyn, NY 11231