Thanks so much to everyone who came out to the festival and played their hearts out. As always the festival was a real blast, with 40 different games running in and around Brooklyn.
Thanks to all of the designers who ran games and the volunteers to supported them. The festival would be an empty shell without the amazing games you all think up and bring to life over the weekend each year.
Each year the Come Out & Play settles in a different neighborhood and explores the limits of play and games in that space. We've played among the galleries of Chelsea, played amidst the thriving nightlife of the Lower East Side and navigated the throngs of tourists in Times Square. In 2010 the festival landed in Brooklyn to explore a new set of challenges. We explored the potential for play in a converted 100-year old bathhouse. We found ways to engage a residential neighborhood like Park Slope with games. We discovered the playful uses of a post-industrial swath of warehouses and canals like Gowanus. And we made games from the rich texture of a historic public cemetery like Green-Wood.
Congratulations to the 2010 Come Out & Play Award Winners:
Big thanks to all of the amazing volunteers who made the festival happen:
Mark Abrams, Marianne Allard,
A Omar Almodovar,
Sharon Applegate,
Janelle Bonanno,
Sarah Brin,
Lia Bulaong,
Adele Chase,
Jessica Chen,
Spencer Cheng,
David Chung,
David Fono,
Stephanie Futch,
Emmanuel Go,
Chris Hamby,
Karen Huynh,
Patrick Joa,
Aaron Krasnov,
Joanie Kwok,
Ian Kwok,
Stepanie LeDuc,
Nancy Liang,
Ling Lin,
Tahiat Mahboob,
Daniel Nagler,
Rich Park,
Samantha Perry,
David Polinchock,
Scott Price,
Julia Pun,
David Ross,
Joshua Rothhaas,
Alexis Salas,
Donald Schwartz,
Mark Shieh,
Gabe Smedresman,
Kim Stella,
Norm Sutaria,
Crystal Vagnier,
Ana Valdez,
Patsy Van Roost,
Dina Vinokur,
Amy Wawek
Scoop All Weekend: Can be played all weekend Location:Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Notes: family-friendly, radio, creative, badges, persistant
Urban Games Field Reporting
SCVNGR All Weekend: Can be played all weekend Location:Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Notes: family-friendly, high-tech mobile social game
SCVNGR is a game about going places, doing challenges and earning points!
It's time to let the skeletons out of your closet.
Friday June 4, 2010
Come Out & Play 2010 Opening Ceremony Start Time: Friday June 4 at 7 PM - midnight Location:Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Join us for the Come Out & Play Festival 2010 opening ceremony and party. Get a rundown on games to play throughout the weekend. Join in the fun with loads of amazing party games.
Radar Blip Start Time: Friday June 4 at 9 PM Location:Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY - From there the game will move down the street to the Old Stone House Notes: new folk game, night game
Field Crumpets Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 10 AM Location:Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY Notes: new sport, team
Ten points. One captain. No scrubs.
Unwritten Storybook Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 11 AM Location:Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY Notes: creative, narrative, family-friendly
A game inspired by the labyrinth of Daedalus, set in a life-size maze.
GENTRIFICATION: THE GAME! Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 12 PM Location:Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY Notes: strategic street game, photos, territorial
Turn the neighbourhood upside down in a strategic game of urban brinksmanship. We've got art, lawsuits, and sidewalk chalk!
Ex Arcana Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 12 PM Location:Old Stone House, 336 3rd Street, Brooklyn, NY Notes: role-playing, cards
This cooking challenge is hot off the griddle of The Go Game team-building stove.
THE ONE Start Time: Saturday June 5 at 5 PM Location:Festival HQ at the The Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Notes: strategic street game, action, outdoors, multiverse
Join us for a conversation about the best real-world, street and augmented reality games of the last ten years, examining what makes them successful and what designers and players can learn from them.
If you've got the connections, you can claim the streets.
The Time Traveler's Knife Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 12 PM Location: Green-Wood Cemetery Notes: role-playing, team-based, historical
Brave time travelers take man's first tentative steps into the future, but before they can see the future, they will have to iron out the knots of the past.
Battle of Brooklyn Start Time: Sunday June 6 at 1 PM Location: Prospect Park - meet at the Boathouse terrace facing the pond Notes: historical, territorial, family-friendly
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.
Pirate Radio!
2010 NY was broadcast live on Nonchalance Radio: 88.9
& streaming live: radiononchalance.org
2010 NY Partners
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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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