Play Real Life Asteroids at Gaming Festival

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Play Real Life Asteroids at Gaming Festival

An upcoming festival in Brooklyn will let players play massive games that include live-action versions of classic Atari titles.

If you're a gamer near Brooklyn who's looking for a new way to play some classic arcade titles -as well as some crazy live-action games with hundreds of other players- you're definitely in luck. A two day-long festival is coming to the city in a couple of weeks that is designed to "explore the limits of play" through different neighborhoods.

Brooklyn Lyceum and will allow players the opportunity to partake in dozens of games. Reading through descriptions of the various games on the docket, the whole festival sounds like a blast.

The games in the festival span the spectrum of genres, but videogame players are probably going to be interested in the live-action versions of Asteroids (where you'll have to shoot "human asteroids") and Kaboom! (requiring players to catch black water balloons dropped by someone running back and forth across a massive balcony). Also, the festival's official website talks about some other games that might appeal to this type of gamer: "Players will track each other in high-tech hide-&-seek games like <a href=http://comeoutandplay.org/2010_hali.php>HALI and <a href=http://comeoutandplay.org/2010_geomelee.php>Geo Melee. These games break free of TVs and tiny cellphone screens and return the action to the great outdoors."

Of course, there are also games that don't rely on iPhones as play tools. One particularly interesting and imaginative title is <a href=http://comeoutandplay.org/2010_unwrittenstorybook.php>Unwritten Storybook, which was created by Walt Disney Imagineering: "Playing the heroes of this real-world adventure across Brooklyn, your interactions with other teams of characters will determine whether you live as allies or enemies. All stories culminate in a festive gathering where the characters assemble together to write the final chapter over a feast of food and cider."

The whole festival sounds, quite honestly, amazing. And fun. And like something that any gamer would be proud to be a part of. The best part, though, is that the festival is totally free to enter into; if you're in the Queens, NY, area and have some free time to participate in the event, you should definitely check it out.

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Alar

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I approve of any event where real-life recreation of video games occurs. I'm sure even an out of shape nerd like myself would find it highly entertaining.

Four and a half stars!
 

Grayjack

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Wow, something interesting near me. But it would take two hours to get their so I'll pass.
 

Jared

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Intresting little event. Wish I could cross pond to attend!
 

IamQ

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Fuck, I thought real life asteroids as in real real life asteroids. The ones in space. Damn, that would be awesome. though if someone were to hack the game, we'd be royally fucked.
 

Taco of flames

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Fetch me my teleporter! We're off to Brooklyn! ... What do you mean, we don't have a teleporter? Damn it.
 

Billion Backs

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Real life Tetris.

Sounds like a giant, and, considering the visible majority of gamers, gay orgy.

Although it would probably suck for the people on the bottom. And yes, tetris has to be vertical.

And bottom rows blow up with conventional explosives.

Okay, this is more like a genocide now, but awesome.
 

The Random One

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Bang bang you're broken up into two smaller asteroids travelling perpendicullary to your previous route! No takebacks!
 
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Flying-Emu said:
Man, all the cool stuff happens on the East Coast. Except PAX.
That changed with PAX East :p

EDIT: Sounds interesting. But New York is many hours away. And I need to work then, so... yeah, shame I can't go.
 

ninjajoeman

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why do all the people that live near cool things go meh whatever when everyone else is all OMGWTF IS TAT I WISH I WAHS TERE

daw...
 

Mezzo.

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That Unwritten Storybook thing sounds like so much fun. :(

Fucking Texas. >:U
 

Torque669

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Jaredin said:
Intresting little event. Wish I could cross pond to attend!
Same. Pretty unfortunate really because this sounds brilliant. Last event, the Roleplaying one, sounds alot like normal LARPing though, doesnt matter really however. I hope it goes well so it can start branching around the world :D