the answer, in short, is NO

It has taken me the best part of two years so far

so true

similar to my Battlegroup(working title) Idea,. the game is still relatively socially uninclusive though, and has limited function to aid physical or real whorl communication, I think an evolution of this idea must be made if there is ever to be any popularisation of this genre.

fyprocessing:

Transgressive Processing for the Bus-Tops Generative Art Season: 

Bus-Tops (http://bus-tops.com) is a public art project in London where we have placed 30 monochromatic red LED screens on the roofs of bus shelters across the city. The installations joyfully and playfully disrupt bus passengers journeys.

Working with OpenProcessing.org we have devised a Processing/Generative Art season which will run from the 1st of March, with the top ten submissions made to this collection guaranteed exhibition across the physical installations. Submissions close 28th of February.


512x160px / 8fps / grayscale output

Contest Notes:

All submissions will be downloaded from OpenProcessing as a sketch and exported to an animated GIF format to be uploaded to the OpenProcessing account at http://bus-tops.com/

The ranking of the top ten will be based on the number of favourites accrued on openprocessing.org

The creative commons license in use on OpenProcessing will carry over to the Bus-Tops OpenProcessing page

All works will be attributed to the original author’s openprocessing account when posted to the Bus-Tops.com website

Submissions close 28th of February

hmmm, this sounds like an opportunity to play around to me

A classic example and a simple idea, for an active and arguable interactive experience, however, I would class this as more of a first generation gps game, that to gain a real competitive edge, would need a more challenging setting, with a concept that users could warp to their own ideas of gameplay and comradeship. This would allow for a tactical and physical edge where users could know, or get to know their competitors on a more personal level.

Generally designed for adults that have removed themselves form their childhoods, this game, with extra elements of challenge could make an interesting game aimed for young teams. This sparks interest in spending a short amount of time exploring other styles of traditional playground game. British Bulldog, Stuck in the Mud, to name a few … Manhunt would be a good one, though from a marketing point of view, could I condone a game where the target gets the shit beaten out of them at the end?

the start of my gps research, lacks any mode of physical interactivity, and therefore realtime peer challenge…