Monday, 25 August 2008

Competitive Picnicking

designed with Michael Dory, Adam Simon, and Scott Varland of Social Bomb.

Throw down your blanket! Will you end the day surrounded by friends and eating a delicious meal, or will you be invaded by ants and left stranded and hungry on the edge of the party?

Competitive Picnicking is a large multiplayer game of trading items and claiming territories, set on a big lawn on a sunny summer day and using food as game pieces. Players come to the picnic with the basic ingredients for lunch and play a culinary variant of go fish to assemble the highest-scoring snacks and sandwiches.

Competitive Picnicking has been played at the June 2008 Come Out and Play Festival in New York, NY, and the February 2009 Adelaide Film Festival in Adelaide, Australia, and it looks like the Indianapolis Theater Fringe Festival played a variant in August 2009.

Photos from NY and Adelaide:








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