The program for the Come Out & Play festival is finally available - highlights of originality (for me) are “3001 - a new kind of collaborative musical gameplay” where players participate to a musical performance via cell phones - I remember vaguely an art performance employing the same principle, but I ll have to check. The innovation is that each cell phone controls an avatar on the screen and the avatar’s movements determines the music - uhm - really curious about that.
Otherwise we have the classic (human) “Snake”, Bocce games to discover the city of Amsterdam, virtual soccer, water gun fights, Pong projected on a building (in 2006 it was Space Invaders), street tagging, three photo hunts, a spy game, outdoor puzzle game with lasers (! I want to see that!), a game set in virtual Africa (last year it was virtual Bagdad). I was pleased to see that at least one third of the creators of these games were women, then it is true that cross platforms game production attracts creators from both sexes while single platform (PC/PS2 etc) attracts mostly male creators because all the existing productions show a strong gender connotation. Anyway, gender issues are not the topic of this blog, they are the topic of the factory blog, the official blog of Factory Girl, regarding women and games, take a look (a bit of cross advertising