Congratulations to atroche! His game Rescue Tina! is still available for play. If you’re in Newcastle Australia anytime, SMS !join 89 to 61429357459 to play his game.

Yang, Colleen and I have just returned from Newcastle where we ran a workshop and competition for Electrofringe 2008.

We arrived the day before the workshop and quickly built a game for the workshop which we got participants to go out and play. For this game in particular we decided to be sneaky and hide clues and parts of the game in plain sight.

The workshop was first on the list on the first day of festival, which is usually quite a slow day. People started turning up and very quickly we had a few groups out and about playing the game we built.

I followed a group around as they searched for our chalk markings…

hunted down our hidden can of tuna (which kept getting stolen)…

and disemboweled pillows.

Thanks to everyone for turning up so early on such a hot day and running around with us!

If you want more ideas for a game of your own, visit our forum or build one of your own now!

For Electrofringe, we’ve created a quick way to play games without having to register online. Find the gameid of the game you want to play (the number after the “g” in the URL of the game poster) then SMS our number, 61429357459 - with:

!join gameid

You’re now ready to go!

This is an evolving feature so feel free to discuss it in our Forums.