Come Out and Play is a festival that “offers a chance to explore new styles of games and play.” Dave and I submitted two proposals to the festival this year, including one called “City Ball”, a baseball-type game played throughout an entire city at 1/100 speed, using GPS-enabled phones and a cyber-ball. Dave submitted the other proposal, “Bocce Drift”, as sort of an afterthought. He even included an email saying that we would much rather do CityBall, but if they want us to do both, we could.
Make a long story short, Jeff.
Ok, Bocce got in, City Ball didn’t.
Bocce Drift is a no-tech variant of Bocce that Dave, Dan Klainbaum, John Goetzinger and I used to play back at Georgia Tech when we got tired of working on our theses. The essential difference between Bocce Drift and regular bocce is that a new round begins where the jack landed in the last round. This has the effect of moving a game around an area in an interesting way. Being on rough, unpredictable terrain, players must learn to use obstacles and geography to their advantage. And that’s about it.
So, we were a bit surprised that the conference organizers wanted us to fly to Amsterdam on our own dime to play a slightly modified version of bocce. But so be it. I want to go to Amsterdam, and this seems like a barely-passable excuse. In the meantime, Dave and I are going to put a little more effort into improving the game so that it is more interesting for us to create.
Bocce Drift
Come Out and Play is a festival that “offers a chance to explore new styles of games and play.” Dave and I submitted two proposals to the festival this year, including one called “City Ball”, a baseball-type game played throughout an entire city at 1/100 speed, using GPS-enabled phones and a cyber-ball. Dave submitted the other proposal, “Bocce Drift”, as sort of an afterthought. He even included an email saying that we would much rather do CityBall, but if they want us to do both, we could.
Make a long story short, Jeff.
Ok, Bocce got in, City Ball didn’t.
Bocce Drift is a no-tech variant of Bocce that Dave, Dan Klainbaum, John Goetzinger and I used to play back at Georgia Tech when we got tired of working on our theses. The essential difference between Bocce Drift and regular bocce is that a new round begins where the jack landed in the last round. This has the effect of moving a game around an area in an interesting way. Being on rough, unpredictable terrain, players must learn to use obstacles and geography to their advantage. And that’s about it.
So, we were a bit surprised that the conference organizers wanted us to fly to Amsterdam on our own dime to play a slightly modified version of bocce. But so be it. I want to go to Amsterdam, and this seems like a barely-passable excuse. In the meantime, Dave and I are going to put a little more effort into improving the game so that it is more interesting for us to create.