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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.

Each 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.

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.

Finding games

Our 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 playable games category.

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).

Organising games

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.

Writing games

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 the FAQ to see how to add one.

Talking about games

Each of the games has a "discussion" link under its title, for feedback, questions, player reports and general discussion.