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Here's a list of the confirmed games for 2008.
The Schedule:
Anytime throughout the festival
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Turf
Start Time: All weekend (This game can be played while playing other games)
Location: Bluestockings
Notes: Kid friendly game
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Turf is a massively multiplayer web-based strategy game that'll have you on the ground holding your territory over the course of two days.
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Friday June 6, 2008
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Whiffle Hurling MV
Start Time: 7:00 PM
Location: Bluestockings
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Wiffle Hurling with musical momentum
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Urban Bingo
Start Time: 9:00 PM
Location: Bluestockings
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The everyday becomes game pieces to find and collect in this mash-up between city tour and classic bingo!
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Saturday June 7, 2008
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Panel Discussion
Start Time: 12 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Parsons
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Designers and academics discuss the urban street games phenomenon.
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Re:Activism NYC
Start Time: 2 PM
Starting Location: Parsons
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Race through the history of riots, protests and activism in New York City and reactivate sites of political action through play!
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Snap-Shot-City
Start Time: 2 PM - 9 PM. (This game can be played while playing other games)
Location: Bluestockings
Notes: Kid friendly game
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Snap-Shot-City, is a world wide photographic treasure hunt that will open your eyes to the Extraordinary. Everyday. Everywhere.
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Fort Amsterdam
Start Time: 2 PM
Starting Location: Bowling Green Park
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The Fort Amsterdam game is a GPS-based multi-player game played with mobile phones, in which players get transported back 400 years to a time when New York was called New Amsterdam.
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Speed Director
Start Time: 2 PM
Starting Location: Bluestockings
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Using the city as your set and cast, stage classic movie scenes as fast as you can.
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The Comfort of Strangers
Start Time: 2:30 PM
Starting Location: Parsons
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Create your team out of the anonymous crowd; every chance encounter could be your last, or an opportunity to live and survive - find comfort in strangers.
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The Ministry of Silence
Start Time: 3:30 PM
Starting Location: Union Square
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The object of the game is simple: be the first to player to find the mystery person planted somewhere in the same library handcuffed to a briefcase.
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The Invention of Murder
Start Time: 4 PM
Location: City Hall
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The year is 1841, and players are working as cub reporters for the New York Herald, racing to be the first to uncover the truth behind the crime of the century - the murder of Mary Rogers, the beautiful cigar girl whose body had been found floating in the Hudson days before.
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Search Brigade
Start Time: 4:30 PM
Starting Location: Union Square
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Search Brigade is a fast-paced game of urban cooperation and deception.
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The Lost Sport of Olympia
Start Time: 4:30 PM
Starting Location: Columbus Circle Entrance to Central Park
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The ancient Greeks banned it, but we’re playing it anyway!
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Bike Friendly City
Start Time: 5 PM
Starting Location: Bluestockings
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Pimp and build bike lanes for points and cred.
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Priced Out
Start Time: 6 PM
Location: Bluestockings
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Find the best-tasting, lowest priced food and bring it to a party before time runs out!
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Metrophile
Start Time: 6 PM
Starting Location: Brooklyn Bridge/City Hall 6 train entrance
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The premise of this team-based subway game is for one team to capture the most subway cars over the course of a ride.
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Ravenchase Adventures
Start Time: 7 PM
Location: Bluestockings
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Ravenchase Adventures’ signature adventure races are a mix between the Amazing Race, the DaVinci Code, and National Treasure.
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Come Out & Party - Festival Afterparty
Start Time: 9 PM
Starting Location: The Delancy Lounge, 168 Delancey St
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Come party with game designers and other players. There'll be a super fun, super secret bar game too.
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Sunday June 8, 2008
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Competitive Picnicking
Start Time: 12 PM
Starting Location: TBA
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A large multiplayer picnic in which players trade food and drinks to assemble the tastiest, highest-scoring lunch. Watch out for the ants!
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Mission IN
Start Time: 1 PM
Starting Location: Bluestockings
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Seeking and Finding Intersecting Names
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Human Blackjack
Start Time: 2 PM
Starting Location: TBA
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Human blackjack is a highly participative, fast-paced rendition of the classic card game, with those playing serving as both the contestants ("gamblers") and the deck itself ("cards").
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Pigeon Piñata Pummel
Start Time: 2 PM
Starting Location: TBA
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Earn rewards of candy as you vent stress with a wiffleball bat!
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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.
e: info(at)comeoutandplay(dot)org
p: 646-644-1995
Come Out & Play Festival
420 2nd Street, #4
Brooklyn, NY 11215
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