The Come Out and Play Festival is a street games fesitval dedicated to exploring new styles of games and play.

RAIN OR SHINE! Come Out & Play in NYC June 12-14, 2009
Games

Have you been playing games this weekend? VOTE FOR THE PLAYERS' CHOICE AWARD! Rate the games you played here.

Most games meet or leave from our gracious host's theater The Tank (HQ all weekend), our aweomse satellite Times Square HQ at Broadway and 45th (all weekend), Central Park Heckscher Fields near 65th street on the west side (Saturday), or Pier 84 at 12th Ave and 44th St.(Sunday). Exceptions are noted.

You can also just drop by The Tank or our HQ on Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets (look for the white inflatable dome) anytime during festival hours and we'll help you get your game on!

*Registrations* are live for games that require or recommend it (look for the *). Many are drop-in friendly.

In the listing below, games that list both start and end times are the kind of games you can stop by and get involved with at anytime during the run of the game.

2009 Games

Anytime throughout the festival

Photopolis*
All Weekend: Friday June 12 at 10 AM through Sunday June 14 at 4 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: family friendly, hi-tech, theatrical
Team up with players from New York, Beijing, and Shanghai for a cross-continental photography challenge.

Hidden Park
All Weekend: Download the iPhone app at the HQ during festival event hours and play at your leisure anytime during the weekend.
Location: Download at Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves). Then play the game in Central Park.
Notes: family friendly, hi-tech, iPhone, cerebral, theatrical
A fantastic adventure that blends geo-caching, puzzle solving and photography into an innovative outdoor gaming experience.

Ran Some, Ransom
All Weekend: Pick up and play throughout the weekend
Get Started: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
See Scores: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: cerebral, extreme
Run some, walk some and decode some ransom letters in Time Square to find the hostage first. Hurry, the clock is ticking!



Friday June 12, 2009

Empress Kiki's Intergalactic Cocktail Party*
Start Time: Friday June 12 at 4 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: cerebral, theatrical, extreme
Solve occultic mysteries, interact with eccentric characters, and shop for the perfect outfit ... all to sneak into the most exclusive party in the Universe.

Signals on the S*
Start Time: Friday June 12 at 5 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: cerebral, social experiment
Win points by sending the correct secret messages to your teammates in Grand Central Station or Times Square by giving beads to the appropriate travelers on the Shuttle (S) subway train!

Stalk Exchange*
Start Time: Friday June 12 at 6 PM
Location: Grand Central Terminal - Players will be sent details about where to meet.
Notes: hi-tech, cerebral, social experiment
A mobile-phone based espionage game for Grand Central Terminal.

Neo-Cowgirl Faux Rodeo*
Start Time: Friday June 12 at 6-8 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: family friendly, theatrical, extreme, new sport
Everyone's a cowgirl in this here rodeo! Stamp, holler, rope, 'n buck fer glory.

Come Out & Play 2009 Opening Ceremony
Start Time: Friday June 12 at 7 PM - midnight
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Join us for the Come Out & Play Festival 2009 opening ceremony and party. Get a rundown on games to play throughout the weekend. Join in the fun with several party games at the opening.

Hijack the Band
Start Time: Friday June 12 at 7-8:30 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: hi-tech, live music!
Interactive cell phone game played with a live rock band

Heartbreaker, the Lover's Dilemma*
Start Time: Friday June 12 at 10 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: cerebral, emotional
Find true love and break the most hearts along the way.

CryptoZoo*
Start Time: Friday June 12 at 11 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: theatrical, extreme, new sport
A secret world of strange and fast-moving creatures



Saturday June 13, 2009

Panel Discussion
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 10 AM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Join us for a conversation about the intersection of geography and games. Confirmed panelists: Mattia Romeo (Gigantic Mechanic), Sarah Williams (Spatial Information Design Lab, Columbia University).

Day in the Park*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 12 PM
Location: Heckscher Fields in Central Park near 65th St & Central Park West entrance
Notes: family friendly, cerebral, theatrical
Wanna play hooky from the streets? Solve big puzzles and complete missions to win a day in the park.

BlockBall
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 12-2 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: cerebral, extreme, new-sport
A real-time game of spatial strategy that plays at the speed of sport.

F Be I, See I A*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 12:30 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: hi-tech, cerebral
F Be I, See I A is Urban Capture The Flag without the sweat. Celebrating peer-to-peer communication in its purest form, players move carefully into the enemy team's territory as groups of under cover Field Agents connected to each other through two-way radios.

The Following*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 1 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: hi-tech, cerebral, extreme
One gang following the other in a hunt for the secret base - which will outwit the other?

Outdoor Cham Ball*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 1-4 PM
Location: Heckscher Fields in Central Park near 65th St & Central Park West entrance
Notes: extreme, new-sport
Each game will last approximately 30 minutes. Multiple games will be played.

Paparazzi*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 3 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: hi-tech, cerebral, theatrical, extreme
A GPS-driven cat-and-mouse game of ambushes, paranoia and scandalous photos.

Jamson
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 3-5 PM
Location: Heckscher Fields in Central Park near 65th St & Central Park West entrance
Notes: extreme, new-sport
Jamson is the backyard game of the future that will leave you wanting to play again and again.

Circle Rules Football
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 4 PM
Location: Heckscher Fields in Central Park near 65th St & Central Park West entrance
Notes: theatrical, extreme, new-sport
Circle Rules Football is a new, action packed team sport played on a circular field with a giant yoga ball.

Adrift Atlantean*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 4 PM
Location: Brooklyn Waterfront (see registration page for info)
Notes: family friendly, cerebral, theatrical, extreme
A wayward Atlantean must return home, but hasn't the courage - only you can help!

Picky Sticky Pollen*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 5 PM
Location: Heckscher Fields in Central Park near 65th St & Central Park West entrance
Notes: family friendly, cerebral, theatrical, active, blown up video game
Be part of a hive! Competing hives direct crazed worker bees as they scurry to pick up pollen in this colorful lawn game.

CryptoZoo Playing Workshop*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 5 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: family-friendly, theatrical, extreme, new sport
A secret world of strange and fast-moving creatures

Diva Dutch
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 7-9 PM
Location: South of COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 44th St
Notes: family friendly, theatrical, extreme
The New-And-Improved-For-2009 Diva Dutch operates like a regular schoolyard game of jump rope/fashion show/hip hop freestyle/dozens.

Pitfall! Live at the Tank
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 7-9 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: theatrical, extreme, blown up video game
Play a real life version of the classic Atari game Pitfall.

Player Party
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 8 PM - midnight
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
The Come Out & Play player party will feature more games, a comedy performance, a DJ, a raffle for awesome prizes, and beer. Help support Come Out & Play with a $5 donation.

Groove Moove*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 8 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: social experiment, theatrical
A NYC dance off

The Great Whale Hunt*
Start Time: Saturday June 13 at 8 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: hi-tech, cerebral, extreme
An all-night puzzle hunt.



Sunday June 14, 2009

Massively Multiplayer Mushu*
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 11 AM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: family friendly, social experiment, theatrical, extreme
Grab some friends and traverse remarkable neighborhoods in New York City. Talk to strangers, find clues, and fetch ingredients for a giant collective dinner party!

The Reds Are Coming*
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 11 AM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: cerebral, extreme
Communists from the past have come to our time to sabotage the American way of life! Solve puzzles, crack the Reds' code, and keep the world safe for democracy!

Alien Recon*
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 12 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: hi-tech, cerebral, theatrical
Compete with other aliens by scouting around and planting F.I.S.H bombs in the streets of NYC

Hopscotch Highways
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 12-2 PM
Location: South of COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 42nd/43rd St
Notes: family friendly, theatrical, extreme
Hop From Highway to Highway on this Cross Country Race

Train Mafia*
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 1 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: cerebral, social experiment, theatrical
A heavily modified version of the classic party game Mafia, played on two subway trains, with an extra helping of crazy sauce!

Gigaputt
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 1-3 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Notes: family friendly, hi-tech, iPhone, new-sport
Play golf across Manhattan using your iPhone.

Seek n' Spell
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 1-3 PM
Location: Pier 84, 44th Street and 12th Ave
Notes: family friendly, hi-tech, iPhone, cerebral, extreme, new-sport
Virtual letters + real outdoor spaces = the only iPhone game that exercises your mind and body!

Fast Foot Challenge*
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 1-3 PM
Location: Pier 84, 44th Street and 12th Ave
Notes: hi-tech, extreme, new-sport
FastFoot-Challenge is a GPS multiplayer game. Meet other players, choose your terrain, and experience the real world with new eyes. Be fast on your feet, prepare for the environment, and play your best strategy. Let's see how good you play: You are live on Google Earth!

Earpiece
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 1-3 PM
Location: COaP Times Square HQ, Broadway Pedestrian Mall @ 45th St
Notes: hi-tech, cerebral, theatrical, social experiment
The Controller whispering in your ear, only one of you three can win, act accordingly.

COaP 2009 Awards Ceremony*
Start Time: Sunday June 14 at 3:30-4:30 PM
Location: Festival HQ at the The Tank (354 W 45th St. between 8th/9th Aves)
Wrap up Come Out & Play with other players and designers at an awards ceremony to recognize players' choice, best in fest, best use of space, best use of technology, best use of narrative, and best new sport.
2009 Partners

The Tank is a non-profit arts presenter whose mission is to provide a welcoming, creative, collaborative, and affordable environment for artists and activists engaged in the pursuit of new ideas. Through a wide range of low-cost, high-concept arts and public affairs programming, The Tank seeks to cultivate a new generation of audience for live performance, civic discourse, and the work of emerging artists.

Located on Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets, MTV 44 1/2 is proud to be a 2009 media supporter of the Come Out and Play Festival

Our Mission
The Come Out & Play Festival seeks to provide a forum for new types of public games and play. We want to bring together a public eager to rediscover the world around them through play with designers interested in producing innovative new games and experiences.

Oh yeah, and we want to have city-size fun.

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Information for The Press
  • 2009 Press Release: Recalculating Route (5/26/09)
  • Media Fact Sheet
  • Festival Logo (JPG)
  • 2009 Branding Image
  • 2008 Photos, Amanda Bernsohn
  • 2008 Photos, Javier Oddo

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