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'''Ludocity''' is a collection of pervasive games (or big games, or street games, or whatever you want to call them) - social games that interact or overlap with their environment, often spilling out into city streets, and encouraging their players to look at the world differently.
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'''Ludocity''' is a collection of pervasive games, street games and new sports - social forms of play that take place in public spaces, such as city streets, parks and public buildings.
  
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Every single game on this site has been released under a '''creative commons licence''', giving everyone permission to run that game for free, wherever and whenever they like.
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Some of the games on Ludocity overlap with theatre, painting, dance, and other art forms. Some of them use balloons, lumps of coal, huge sheets of paper, mp3 players, elaborate costumes, and short-range radio broadcasts. All of them have had their rules released under a [[Ludocity:Copyrights|creative commons licence]], giving everyone permission to run that game for free, wherever and whenever they like. They mostly date from around 2008 to 2011.
  
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Ludocity went live in July 2008, in reaction to this year's [[Hide and Seek]] festival - we're still building the lower floors, but you're welcome to browse around and help out.
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==Play games==
  
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==Finding games==
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[[Image:Scavenger.jpg|thumb|A leafy standoff in [[Hunt the Scavenger]].]]
  
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Our [[:Category:Rulesets|list of rulesets]] contains every single game that's been submitted to the site. These games are a mix of rough first drafts and polished masterpieces that have run at international gaming festivals - if you're looking for a game to pick up and play, you should confine yourself to the [[:Category:Playable games|playable games]] category.
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* [[:Category:Playable games|List of playable games]]
  
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If you find a game you like, you're free to run it (with whatever modifications you like) - the only requirements of the creative commons licence are that you '''credit the game's inventor''' (by whatever name is given on the game page), and that you '''don't make any money from it''' (if you want to run the game as part of a paid event, you'll need to check with the game's creator first).
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All of these have been tried and tested, and just need you to print out the rules and gather together whatever props, locations and assistants the game might require. So long as you credit the designer and don't make any money from it, you can run the game anywhere you like.
  
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==Organising games==
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==Design games==
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[[Image:Staghunt.jpg|thumb|The [[Soho Stag Hunt]], played as the finale of the Soho Project ARG, 2007.]]
  
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This is an aspect of the site that we'll be scaling up over time - for now, if you'd like to try and arrange a game of something in your city, leave a note on the [[game calendar]] and see if anyone bites.
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If you've got a game that you'd like to submit to the site under a Creative Commons licence, you can email it into us: see [[Help:Submitting a game]].
  
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==Writing games==
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Some further resources:-
  
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If you've got a game you'd like to submit to the site - either an old one that you've played a lot, or a new one that you're working on and haven't even tested yet - take a look at [[Help:Creating a game]] to find out what to do.
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* [[Prop ideas]]
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* [[Prop suppliers]]
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==Talking about games==
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* [[Common game mechanics]]
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* [[Game design advice]]
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Each of the games has a "discussion" link under its title, for feedback, questions, player reports and general discussion.
 

Latest revision as of 19:51, 12 March 2025

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Ludocity is a collection of pervasive games, street games and new sports - social forms of play that take place in public spaces, such as city streets, parks and public buildings.

Some of the games on Ludocity overlap with theatre, painting, dance, and other art forms. Some of them use balloons, lumps of coal, huge sheets of paper, mp3 players, elaborate costumes, and short-range radio broadcasts. All of them have had their rules released under a creative commons licence, giving everyone permission to run that game for free, wherever and whenever they like. They mostly date from around 2008 to 2011.

Play games

A leafy standoff in Hunt the Scavenger.

All of these have been tried and tested, and just need you to print out the rules and gather together whatever props, locations and assistants the game might require. So long as you credit the designer and don't make any money from it, you can run the game anywhere you like.

Design games

The Soho Stag Hunt, played as the finale of the Soho Project ARG, 2007.

If you've got a game that you'd like to submit to the site under a Creative Commons licence, you can email it into us: see Help:Submitting a game.

Some further resources:-

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