Comments on: Game Seed: Balloons http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/ Collaborative game design Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:31:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: Zaratustra http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/#comment-311 Zaratustra Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:25:57 +0000 http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/#comment-311 The obvious way to have teams not bother the same people would be for they to be in distant places. To handle scoring in an enclosed area, each team can have balloons of one color, and the judges count how many of each type come out on the hands of the 'right' people. The obvious way to have teams not bother the same people would be for they to be in distant places.

To handle scoring in an enclosed area, each team can have balloons of one color, and the judges count how many of each type come out on the hands of the ‘right’ people.

]]> By: Holly http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/#comment-312 Holly Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:07:46 +0000 http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/#comment-312 Ooh, I like that. I'd considered having a judge go around with each team, but obviously that's very cumbersome and annoying and makes it much more difficult to organise. Just a couple of judges, and colour-coded-by-team balloons, is a great idea, though. Ooh, I like that. I’d considered having a judge go around with each team, but obviously that’s very cumbersome and annoying and makes it much more difficult to organise. Just a couple of judges, and colour-coded-by-team balloons, is a great idea, though.

]]> By: Josh http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/#comment-313 Josh Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:23:06 +0000 http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/#comment-313 Ooh, Zaratustra raises an interesting, but alas unrelated, idea - a reverse ARG, where each player has to find a way to manipulate random strangers that they are involved in an ARG, and get them to come to a designated spot, say, without realising that they are being manipulated... whoever can get the most people to come to the designated end point wins. A bit arbitrary and cruel on the randoms, perhaps, but the meta-ness of it amused me. Back to balloons: if I was going to do a balloon-based game, it would be more of a hide-and-seek-fest, British Bulldog style of thing, where each of the runners had an inflated balloon and each of the seekers had a pin... The runners could go back for another balloon if theirs got popped, and score for every balloon that makes it to the destination, while the seekers score for every balloon they destroy in the process. Over a sufficiently large area - the West End, say - and with a large number of players, that could be mildly entertaining. Ooh, Zaratustra raises an interesting, but alas unrelated, idea - a reverse ARG, where each player has to find a way to manipulate random strangers that they are involved in an ARG, and get them to come to a designated spot, say, without realising that they are being manipulated… whoever can get the most people to come to the designated end point wins. A bit arbitrary and cruel on the randoms, perhaps, but the meta-ness of it amused me.

Back to balloons: if I was going to do a balloon-based game, it would be more of a hide-and-seek-fest, British Bulldog style of thing, where each of the runners had an inflated balloon and each of the seekers had a pin… The runners could go back for another balloon if theirs got popped, and score for every balloon that makes it to the destination, while the seekers score for every balloon they destroy in the process. Over a sufficiently large area - the West End, say - and with a large number of players, that could be mildly entertaining.

]]> By: Holly http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/#comment-314 Holly Sun, 21 Oct 2007 13:49:39 +0000 http://www.xorph.com/dispatch/2007/10/08/game-seed-balloons/#comment-314 Yes, I did think about the popping-balloons possibility, but couldn't come up with any way in which encouraging people to run around brandishing pins was a good idea. Or scissors, probably. Even if having to cut people's strings to release their balloons would be fantastic. Yes, I did think about the popping-balloons possibility, but couldn’t come up with any way in which encouraging people to run around brandishing pins was a good idea.

Or scissors, probably. Even if having to cut people’s strings to release their balloons would be fantastic.

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