Come Out & Play Festival

Today through Sunday is the Come Out & Play Festival.  The festival, now in its fourth year, provides a forum for new types of public games and play.  Traditional games happen on a grand scale, digital games make use of mobile devices to get people out into the city, and unconventional games rethink public space and play.  

Sam Strick, Joe Mauriello, Clayton Grey, and I designed a game called Atlantean Adrift.  The game enlists teams of players to help a lost merman who has washed up on the shores of New York regain his spirits and return to Atlantis.  

Over 40 people are registered for the game, which is scheduled for 4:30 on Saturday in DUMBO, Brooklyn.  Hope it doesn’t rain!

Logo by Sam Strick