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NFC Group Game: Tick! Tick! Boom!
coultonp | 09 April, 2008 17:54
Here is a very simple game concept my new PhD student Avi Nandwani has been playing with. The game is simple enough and based on the old parlour game pass the parcel. In this case we have replaced the parcel by a bomb which you have to defuse on your turn. You defuse the bomb by cutting one of three wires each of which has a different effect: either increasing the speed of the countdown timer, taking 10 seconds off the countdown time; or resetting the countdown timer speed to normal.
The countdown is a random time and it’s the person holding the bomb when it reaches zero who gets blown up. To add some tension there is the ticking of the bomb on your phone during your turn. The game is very simple but surprisingly fun and serves to emphasise the beauty of the NFC interface. We are planning a few more party games to test so I will post those as they happen.
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coultonp | 09/04/2008, 20:26
Leonardo
Cheers. I shows what a nice game mechanic and simple interface can acheive. I can imagine it turing into a popular drinking game although of course I wouldnt condone that sort of thing ;)
Paul
Very funny and stressing :-)
cyke64 | 10/04/2008, 18:45
Hello Paul ,
Could you share this game and adapt it to bluetooth phones because bluetooth is more present than NFC ...
Thanks
code and bluetooth
coultonp | 10/04/2008, 19:31
cyke64
I am encouraging Avi to put the code for the NFC game on the WiKi (he could do with a new phone ;)) but we need to finish our users test on the game play first. I can see your point relating to lack of NFC phones but I think most of the fun of the game is the touch interface and that would be lost. Might make an interesting comparison though so will put on my to do list .
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Re: NFC Group Game: Tick! Tick! Boom!
bytesm | 09/04/2008, 19:11
Hi Paul,
pretty fun! :D
Leonardo