The creator of Hide & Seek, a mysterious pervasive game designer called Giddeon Reeling, had his assistants contact the gamesblog a fortnight ago to announce the pre-launch of a mysterious multi-media interactive something called The Soho Project. Dubious but piqued, we popped a link to the static site on our del.icio.us. Egads, since my return to the UK from abroad, it's all kicked off, and now there's only a few more days to participate.
In short, according to the site,
Fictional Media is creating the first ever Pervasive Multi-Platform User-Generated Digitally-Mediated Multi-Genre Interactive TV Web 3.0 Experience (PMPUGDMMGITW3E) which aims to capture the spirit and essence of the area known as Soho in London's West End. As players, you are all hunting for the essence of Soho, seeking to capture the spirit of the area. Working in teams, you will act as researchers, reporters, videographers, performers and more. Some of you will be all of these at the same time.
It's a kind of player-generated treasure hunt, with points for prizes.
How do you join in the fun?
Sign up as a player in our Facebook Application...Create or join a team...And then as a team, choose a pursuit. Pursuits are your missions and challenges. You can invent your own pursuit, although we will need to approve it. Go forth onto the streets of Soho. Carry out your chosen pursuit, have it filmed, and upload the result onto YouTube, tagging it with thesohoproject.
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You score points for completing pursuits once video has been approved. You score more points if other teams film your mission and they score points for doing so.
It ends on 27 October. More here.
