Winner: Best in Fest & Best Use of Tech, Come Out & Play 2010
Read about it in the Toronto Star

an award-winning live action game of monopoly + public space hacking + random acts of kindness

PS Kensington
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next game: July 25, as part of PS Kensington
1PM, Corner of Augusta Avenue & Denison Sq
Kensington Market
Walk-up registration starts at 11:30. Only a few spots left!

In this lively outdoor game, small teams of players compete to collect properties and transform the neighbourhood. As developers, they'll develop swanky lofts, erect coffee shops, and raise property values. As locals, they'll form BIAs, build community centres, and try to thwart the developers. Along the way there will be art, vicious debates, and possibly an Apple Pear Store.

The game is played in rounds, and in each round, teams perform a variety of actions. They can scout properties and collect them by taking photos, then redevelop them by trading in permits. They can negotiate with other teams for land, cash or influence. Or they can execute one of many extra tactics, from the Slick Advertising Campaign (performed via sidewalk chalk) to the nefarious Protest (complete with placards.)

Players can monitor game progress via a big honkin' sidewalk chalk diagram, or a happy little mobile web app!

Basic Rules
Basically
  1. Collect real-life properties.
  2. "Improve" the properties by converting them into different properties. Converted properties bring in money.
  3. Your team’s objective is have the most money at the end of the game.
Rounds
  1. Your team receives a random property.
  2. Declare your tactic for the round (except during the first round.)
  3. Free-for-all. Your team captain may speak to a moderator to register any of the following actions:
    • Present photos to collect properties (up to 2).
    • Convert collected properties.
    • Trade cash or properties with other teams.
  4. Scoring: Tactics applied. Each team receives money for all of their converted properties.
Tactics
Developers
  • Corporate Social Responsibility. Clean up the neighbourhood.
  • Slick Advertisement. Get creative.
  • Aggressive PR Campaign. Candy from strangers.
  • Hired Goons. Make them do what you want.
  • Lawsuit. Eloquence, verbiage, and rhyming.
  • Corporate Happytime® Parade. Super-secret bonus move.
Locals
  • Petition. Unite the people.
  • Art. Let the angst out.
  • Slightly Creepy But Wise Neighbourhood Guy Gives Impassioned, Poetic Speech. Self-explanatory.
  • Good Samaritanship. Fill the world with flowers.
  • Protest. You're not gonna take it anymore.
  • Neighbour Day Parade. Warp pipe to world 5.