This weeks' Sunday Styles section will have an article on "big games" - citywide gaming - focusing on PacManhattan. It gets at a lot of the fun and excitement of playing in the city, and there are some great shots of Dennis Crowley running around Washington Square Park dressed as PacMan.
The game that Michele and I have been working on got a brief plug, which was nice. Though I do wish the reporter hadn't described it as the way in which "corporations are getting in on the act." I mean, fer chrissakes, it's only two researchers and a developer and it began a year ago as a master's thesis for the very same program that produced PacManhattan.
I mean, it's good to get a little press. I'm just a little down about how the game got spun.
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Later: Michele and I just had a long discussion at lunch about the various aspectness of "bigness" that these "big" games might have: big in terms of the physical distance covered? big in terms of the social networks they rely on? big in terms of the telecom infrastructure (cell phones, GPS, etc) required to support them? The article has one definition, but there's more there...
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