San Francisco Zero - Another Alternative Reality Game
An original game called San Francisco Zero (SF0) is gaining popularity in and around San Francisco . People scamper around the city and perform tasks that appear on the web.
Game tasks are sometimes completely absurd. For example, one of the most amusing is checking at passers-by passes to the passage along the street . This task requires two people. The first gives citizens free pass passes (sample pass in PDF format), and the second participant stands around the corner and checks them.
Assignments can be very diverse. Actually, they come up with not the organizers of the game, but the participants themselves. The organizers believe that this collaboration model is similar to the wiki.
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The game involves several teams . For completing assignments, each of them gets prize points and increases his rating. The number of players has already exceeded two hundred people, and there are only five teams so far. But the number of participants began to increase rapidly when the press mentioned this game.
In general, this American fun can not be called truly unique. Projects of this type are called “games with alternative reality” (Alternate Reality Games, ARG) and they are becoming increasingly popular in various countries of the world. ARG-type games have “grown up” from standard role-playing games (RPG), and the idea itself has been known for quite some time. Recently, however, projects have begun to appear in which the Internet is a key element of the game.
For example, a similar game called “Fight” has been held in Minsk for more than four years. There she became extremely popular, even cult. A distinctive feature of the Minsk "Fights" - the games are held in the dark.
Each team includes coordinators and mobile teams that perform tasks in a race. Each game consists of several levels. To go to the next you need to enter the code on the site. You need to find this code in the city and its surroundings (the code can be written on the wall of a building or hidden on a hundred-meter-tower), guided by prompts that gradually appear on the site. For example, here is the scenario of one of the past games.
The game "San Francisco Zero" - not the first project of this kind. But here added a new element of co-creation, when players work together to create missions. The role of the organizers is minimized. Such a system is most consistent with the image of the “collective network mind” (in a sense, artificial intelligence), which in the future can gain complete control over the game and the actions of the players.
Game tasks are sometimes completely absurd. For example, one of the most amusing is checking at passers-by passes to the passage along the street . This task requires two people. The first gives citizens free pass passes (sample pass in PDF format), and the second participant stands around the corner and checks them.
Assignments can be very diverse. Actually, they come up with not the organizers of the game, but the participants themselves. The organizers believe that this collaboration model is similar to the wiki.
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The game involves several teams . For completing assignments, each of them gets prize points and increases his rating. The number of players has already exceeded two hundred people, and there are only five teams so far. But the number of participants began to increase rapidly when the press mentioned this game.
In general, this American fun can not be called truly unique. Projects of this type are called “games with alternative reality” (Alternate Reality Games, ARG) and they are becoming increasingly popular in various countries of the world. ARG-type games have “grown up” from standard role-playing games (RPG), and the idea itself has been known for quite some time. Recently, however, projects have begun to appear in which the Internet is a key element of the game.
For example, a similar game called “Fight” has been held in Minsk for more than four years. There she became extremely popular, even cult. A distinctive feature of the Minsk "Fights" - the games are held in the dark.
Each team includes coordinators and mobile teams that perform tasks in a race. Each game consists of several levels. To go to the next you need to enter the code on the site. You need to find this code in the city and its surroundings (the code can be written on the wall of a building or hidden on a hundred-meter-tower), guided by prompts that gradually appear on the site. For example, here is the scenario of one of the past games.
The game "San Francisco Zero" - not the first project of this kind. But here added a new element of co-creation, when players work together to create missions. The role of the organizers is minimized. Such a system is most consistent with the image of the “collective network mind” (in a sense, artificial intelligence), which in the future can gain complete control over the game and the actions of the players.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4035/
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