As noted in an earlier post, Dakota "Cody" Brown, a Carleton CAMS grad who is now doing post-graduate work at Georgia Tech, mounted a game, "Pervasive Minesweeper," at the Come Out & Play Festival last Sunday.
This short video captures the preparations just before launching the game. As you'll see, there's a lot of tense, last-minute technical calibrating in games like this. Here Cody is registering everyone's phone and explaining how to use their camphone to shoot ShotCodes – graphic elements that once photographed automatically open a URL in your phone's browser – that Cody has placed around the area.
Basically this is the old Minesweeper of your adolescent years, but now played with mobile phones in the city. Once the game is launched, the game-master watches it unfold on his laptop.
Quicktim/Ipod format here
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