Welcome to igfest - the interesting games festival.
September 13, 2008
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The Pervasive Media Studio is buzzing this week with preparations for igfest - the interesting games festival, 19th-21st September.
Taking place around the Harbourside in Bristol, igfest is the first festival in the south west to invite people to discover and re-discover the city through playing games in the streets. Freed from screens and boards, players of these games roam the streets hungry for fun. One game may see you fleeing over Pero's bridge with a Pac Man ghost on your tail, another has you playing snakes and ladders up and down the stairs and slopes of a multi story car park.
The final testing phase completed last week, saw a number of willing volunteers testing the tech for Moose Hunt. Useful questions were raised and discussed around using cross platform GPS apps - questions that will enrich future development of pervasive gaming. The test also revealed a couple of software niggles to be ironed out this weekend.
Beginning next week - you are invited to play Moose Hunt.
Moose will be making his autumn migration from the deepest Forest of Dean to Bristol over the week before the festival. Your mission is to find him and photograph him. Text 'moose' to 60300 to receive a map of the moose's current location. But be careful, the moose will be told your location and if he 'shoots' you before you 'shoot' him you are out of the game. Prizes for photographs in various categories including first sighting.
To find out more about igfest go to http://igfest.org/ or join the facebook group by logging in and typing igfest into facebook's search box.
