Wednesday, November 28, 2012

November 30 Meeting: Preview, Part 2

This weekend the club has an option of (1) going to the Tech Shop in Menlo Park for a tour, or (2) going to the Tech Shop in San Francisco for a tour and then going to the SOMArt Come Out and Play Festival. We will take a vote at this week's meeting.

CSM to Tech Shop Menlo Park: 12.3 miles, 17 minutes by car
CSM to Tech Shop San Francisco: 23.7 miles, 32 minutes by car

Tech Shop Menlo Park
120 Independence Dr
Menlo Park, CA 94025
 
Tech Shop San Francisco
926 Howard St
San Francisco, CA 94103
 

The SOMArt Come Out and Play Festival is a free public event, consisting of over 20 games played in the SOMA area. It has two locations: 934 Brannan St. (between 8th and 9th), and Manalo Draves Park (Folsom and Sherman St.) It runs from 12 - 5 pm.

Here are some of the events:

  • Propinquity (2–4pm): a mixed-media game designed to evoke both dancing and fighting that uses full body interaction and the use of sound and game play mechanics to produce an intensely social and physical experience.
  • Obtain the Briefcase (1–3pm): a street game of running, chasing, hiding, subterfuge, and the fight to locate one crucial briefcase.
  • Slothchase (1–3pm): a turn-based tag game of strategy and skill that slows players to a crawl as they navigate the cityscape.
  • Third-Person Outer Body Labyrinth (3–5pm): a maze players navigate wearing video goggles to dislocate the sense of sight to a point high above.
  • Sixteen Tons (12–5pm): a gallery-based physical and social strategy game that takes real money to win.
  • WANTED!  (12–5pm): an SMS-based work of interactive street fiction focused on the adventures of a wild cowgirl.
  • Lemonopoly (12–5pm): a real-world lemon trading game which pits Bay Area cities against one another to see who can share the most lemons
  • Hearst Collection (12–5pm): an in-gallery art heist game in which players navigate a laser maze to steal pieces from the Hearst family.
  • Doodle Defense (12–5pm): an low-tech, whiteboard-based tower defense game in which players race to draw game pieces to beat the onslaught of bugs.
  • The Board Game Lounge (12–5pm): a replication of your living room, but with brand-new board games made by local designers--the handmade Berlin Wall Game, The Cove, and Toy Fight, and the high-tech Sifteo cubes.



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