Free street games at NYC's Come Out and Play Festival this weekend!

Posted by Cory Doctorow, June 3, 2008 1:45 PM | permalink

Jane McGonigal sez,

25 brand new street games are premiering at the annual Come Out and Play Festival in New York City this weekend (June 6 - 8 2008). Everything is open to the public and 100% free to play!
The games I'm most looking forward to playing are Pigeon Piñata Pummel, where you earn Mario-style powerups by whacking away at real pinatas, and Competitive Picnicking -- which needs no explanation. Woot!
I'll also be running a blindfolded game at the festival called the Lost Sport -- legend has it, the sport was banned 2000 years ago by the ancient Greeks, but we're playing it anyways! We'll be competing virtually with other teams playing the sport in Paris, San Francisco, Tokyo, Singapore, Buenos Aires, New Zealand, London, and more.

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#1 posted by pahool , June 3, 2008 2:23 PM

I feel like competitive picnicking does need an explanation...

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#2 posted by doug117 , June 3, 2008 2:42 PM

Ummm... why would the games NOT be free to play?

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#3 posted by Xopher , June 3, 2008 3:51 PM

I was hoping the Pigeon Piñata Pummel would involve whacking away at real PIGEONS. Drat.

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#4 posted by License Farm

, June 3, 2008 4:37 PM

Dammit, don't any of these festivals check that they're not overlapping each other on a weekend? Nevermind that I'll be busy with the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art Festival at the Puck Building, but it's also Pride! How's anyone supposed to do everything cool when it all happens simultaneously? Shouldn't someone at City Hall mention these conflicts when a new event registers?

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#5 posted by LB , June 3, 2008 6:23 PM

Seriously, I'm going to be at MoCCA Fest too. Isn't this games thing usually in September? ::grumblegrumble::

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#6 posted by kaiza , June 4, 2008 3:30 AM

I always love seeing "making of" features, although I wonder about whether it is weird to the crew that there would be someone filming them? I wonder if anyone has made a film about a "making of" film crew? Which would then need a "making of" featurette of its own! Very Droste.

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#7 posted by Brett Burton , June 4, 2008 9:36 AM

@ #4 + #5
This is why it's cool to live in NYC. In some cities there are only 3 good things happening all month, so 3 on the same day is nothing to complain about.