Crossroads game: running from a voodoo spirit

September 29, 2006 7:02 AM

Running from a voodoo spirit.The urban game Crossroads is one of the featured games from last weeks Come Out and Play (yes, another FPP!) Posting because this game is still running this weekend.

Using GPS cell phones, players are trying to take over intersections in lower manhattan, like playing Go. But the Baron Samedi is in the grid with them, and one thing I know is that you don't want him to touch you... which is weird because he doesn't actually exist. You end up getting chased down Hudson street by something invisible. Feels like the future.

Part of an exhibition called the Good Life that closes this weekend.
posted by cloudscratcher (8 comments total)

I love this...fantastic idea
posted by das_2099 at 7:25 AM on September 29, 2006

"...because he doesn't actually exist."

That's just what Baron Samedi WANTS you to think.
posted by hermitosis at 7:33 AM on September 29, 2006

After reading the rules, I don't think this is really much like go at all. They're both two-player grid games, but that's about all they seem to have in common.
posted by scottreynen at 7:34 AM on September 29, 2006

you're right, scottreynen -- was just trying to use shorthand to describe it quickly.
posted by cloudscratcher at 8:02 AM on September 29, 2006

This makes me so happy. Mixing the lwa and modern technology - rocks my world.
posted by kalimac at 12:09 PM on September 29, 2006

I was lucky enough to playtest Crossroads for area/code, and wrote it up in some detail here.
posted by adamgreenfield at 2:42 PM on September 29, 2006

Mixing the lwa and modern technology - rocks my world.


Enjoy Count Zero, then?
posted by quite unimportant at 5:23 PM on September 29, 2006

Like modern cell phone technology doesn't make it hard enough to tell who are wack jobs talking to themselves and who are wack jobs upwardly-mobile individuals talking into ear thingers, now we've got people fleeing on the streets from phantoms on their phone...or are they?
posted by Ogre Lawless at 3:16 PM on October 2, 2006