Monday, March 29, 2010

I am lazy incarenate sorry

Alright so our idea is;

Scavenger hunt in which you are given tasks/ scenarios which you need to complete. One scenario could be that you need to rob a bank. You cannot rob a bank with your bare hands and the shirt off your back so you need specific items to aid you. A list of these items is sent to you, i.e; a copper pipe, Heshon (spelling?) sack, masks to cover your face and a getaway car. You do not need to buy these items, but you must take a picture of each of them. The pictures will be uploaded to a sub forum on a website dedicated to the particular challenge. The photos will be graded not on the quality of the photo, but if they are pliable to the situation. For each useable object you receive one point, for a photo missing or an unusable item a point is not used.

This game will done in teams of 5-6 OR since it's graded online and the team members do not need to physically know each other- For each challenge you can form teams and all the points go to the individuals. So if a team wins, everyone gets those points, if they loose they have points deducted. This would be so there is competition between forum members to have the highest score.

For challenges there could also be a few item quests they need to complete. I'll use a bank robbery for example.


I'll try to make some details clearer.

Teams- how they work/ are formed, how the pictures are judged/ uploaded.

There will be a website, lets call it urbanstrikeforce.org as an example. If you go to
urbanstrikeforce.org > forums > Challenges > Bank Robbery

In Bank Robbery- the top unmovable post will be the explanation of the robbery. It will tell you part one of the challenge, and when it's to be completed- and when Part two will be edited in. The posts underneath it would be the posts made by the already formed teams with their pictures and small explanation for Part 1. When the date for part one closes and Part 2 is put up, all teams would have of edited their posts with their contribution for part 2. After the date for part 2 is closed, the moderator grades the team, and when completed, makes a post detailing the winners- losers and adds points to the individuals profiles.

Forming a team. Lets say you go a forum allocated to forming a team
urbanstrikeforce.org>forums > teams> form teams


How the challenges would look/work. The posts would have a small back story, then tell the teams what they need to get.

Bank Robbery Challenge Part 1

Find a safe place to meet and discuss the robbery.
A bank in which to rob.
Somewhere to lay law after the robbery.
A car to drive to the bank in.

Bank Robbery Challenge Part 2

Masks to obscure your face without drawing too much attention to your face (voice.)
A sack in which to put the money in.
A different car to escape in.
An household item to use as a weapon.


The photos would need to be taken with a camera by yourself though. So I'm unsure how to stop people from cheating and just uploading pictures. Maybe they need to be in the pictures themselves, or flash a wristband (one of those annoying fluro ones) which says strikeforce.org in it. IE to authenticate the picture, your wrist needs to be in it, flashing the websites logo. The bracelets are given out to teams once they register on the site. But since that’s costly, you could make your own bracelet, or write it on your palm in marker.



I'll try to make some details clearer.


For this challenge we'll have to construct this website, and wrangle at least 3 teams into a challenge over the next week so we can show how it works. I can force some people into it, but if you have any friends you can make do it? Great. We need to allocate one of us to moderate the pictures and allocate points. If it's more than one person for now, it'll become messy.


Okkays.


This idea is simple to pull off, and it requires no little fiddley gadgets. This is in essence a physical game. We can always say, there can be an iPhone app devolped later down the track for individual challenges, so you can upload pictures and mark them on google maps.


Oooook. Sorry about the spelling,

4 comments:

  1. -the sack is hessian
    -I'm not seeing any real winning condition here. Right now if two teams compete to complete a scenario, that means they'll probably both end up taking all the necessary photos, meaning they'll have the same number of points. Is there a time limit? Or, first to upload all the photos wins? The actual point system isn't doing anything right now, it's more of a binary finished/did not finish thing. It might be better if, instead of a list of specific items, you have a list of purposes you need items to serve, for instance instead of "rope" you might have "something to tie a fool up with", meaning one team might run off to a shop to photograph rope but a team with more presence of mind might just photograph an extension cord. That probably works best with a timelimited or first-to-finish system than points.
    -Good idea making people be in the pictures themselves
    -When is this jazz due?

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  2. KK, I think Joe had a good point about making the points a bit more cryptic / versitile, making teams have to think quicker, we also really need to give this a set time limit, say 1 minute per item? Thats not very much time, hence the unning, hence the exertion! I think we also need to brainstorm some more example ideas so that we have a different goal per round of gameplay. For example:

    First Round: Rob a bank
    Second Round: Perfect Date
    Third Round: Stop the Zombie invasion

    Maybe only after 3 rounds do we have our winner?

    I really love that wristband idea, that they have to have to have it in the picture to stop cheating. Maybe for the example thingy on Thursday we can just have simple plaited bracelets that we tie on ourselves? I have plenty of thread at home from my avatar assignment we can use.

    Do we want to meet up on tuesday/ wednesday and test this out, film it and quickly upload it? If we can't meet up I can just test it out myself lol, just give me a goal and ill run and get the objects! Maybe upload them onto your facebook page george?

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  3. Joe's right. But getting people to do it the fastest would mean everyone who participates in different time zones around the world would be at a disadvantage if it's night for them. If we did it where it was organized in big cities say there was a Melbourne challenge, all all the Melbourne members had to meet up and were given the challenge, then they all ran away- had 30 minutes to find the pictures of what they needed. Or were given maps with blocks highlighted to find the certain things so it involved them having to run in between areas and making it more an exertion exercise.


    Ie- Met up in Melbourne at a certain time and place. Were given the challenge, then each given a map with blocks circled with what they should find in those areas ie "something to tie someone up with" then told they have exactly 30 minutes to go locate those things and come back.

    The flaws I see with that idea though are you could only do it once in a while, and not have it running online.


    @ sarah I don't know if it'd be easier to just log in as well and us to pretend to be doing the challenges as well. But we should film us finding the stuff yeah. Ahh I'm over my head. We need to make it more psychical somehow.

    Here's the forum for it-

    http://collectionagency.forum-free.ca

    user- Admin
    Pw- goteam1

    it can ge fixed up visually easily, this is just a loud orange template.

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  4. I still think the milk crate idea was amazing, just throwin' it out there.

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