Sea Level
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Take a deep breath and dive down into the depths of the underpass, work in teams and use submarines to explore even further. You will meet dolphins and mermaids, avoid dangerous sharks and reach submarine realms that you weren’t even aware existed. Scuba gear will be provided. Oh, and don’t forget to rescue the little turtle.
Equipment
Watch this Instructable Video to get started!
- You need lots of Corals (50-100) in 3-5 different colors as the main currency for the underwater world. Cheap plastic hair clips are good, because they can easily be attached to walls, bins etc.
- Mermaids are equipped with battery powered guitar amplifiers and MP3 players. We chose Smoke City's Underwater Love song. Build shoulder straps out of soft material (e.g. string and felt) and attach them safely to the amps so that they can be worn like a vendors tray and your mermaids become mobile. Mermaids also need head massaging device.
- Submarines carry packs of 3 MP3 players with splitter adapters, so that 6 headphones can be plugged in. Use a track with some underwater sounds. For better visibility, it is good to mark the submarine captains with reflecting safety vests.
- Dolphins carry with them a set of two marbles to click together and hence produce the shark fending sound. Take care that marbles are slippery safe for passants, best plaster them with tape.
- For Poseidon, use a plastic fork as a weapon and a small plastic turtle that you can buy on your local chinese market.
- As divers, players need at least a headphone and a sand clock each to measure the time that they can breathe underwater. To enable the real underwater experience for players equip them with unnaturally heavy footwear and colored goggles. We used bathmats cut in a special shape to hold 0.75 l water bottles on each of your players foot. Bathmats are a convenient material for shoes as they are themselves non-slippery. Tie the shoe with a string of choice. For good looks you can use strips of garden fence net. Build goggle inlays out of green-blue colored transparency that will shade the eye to underwater atmosphere.
Level Design and Site Preparation
- A great place to Start is on the large outdoor staircase right in front of Skala Metro. Equip players and explain the game on the platform right below street level. In the game, street level is sea level, so that players are completely underwater if their head is below street level. On the platforms, their feet are already in the water, but everyone can still breathe.
- Spread Corals around the playing area, use different color types so that a player can collect a set of colors to buy a service. In order to prevent your players from dying early, check immediately before the game start if your corals are still in place or have been taken by passers-by.
- Mermaids live in the large underground plaza in front of the entrance to the subway. It is good to have female and male mermaids, in order not to be confused with prostitutes and bothered by clients.
- Submarine Routes should be fixed at first so that players can work with them, but also adapt over time to nudge players in the right direction. We had one submarine on a circle route between the open space in front of Skala Metro and the central underground plaza in front of the entrance to the subway, and a second going back and forth along the full length of the passage leading down to WestEnd.
- We used the Field Office in an empty shop in the long passage between Skala and WestEnd as the Fortune Teller's Cave. Of course you can also place the Fortune Teller in WestBahnhof Café.
- The Diving Station is located at the escalator leading down to line 3, close to the entrance to WestEnd.
- Poseidon is located on the subway platform of line 3.
- Atlantis is located in the lower level of WestEnd Shopping Center
Rules
- Diving and where you can breathe
- Collecting Corals
- Mermaid interaction
- Submarine interaction
- Sharks and Dolphins
- Reincarnation
- Goal of the game
Rulecard
Download RulecardSeaLevel.jpg
- The rulecard for Sea Level in English and Hungarian.
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