We have two ignites coming up in Seattle. The first one will be Ignite at Seattle BizJam on 6/9. It’s going to be the opening event for the awesome conference aimed at local, independent business owners.
Then on 8/9 we will have our next Ignite Seattle. Save the date!
It will be held at the CHAC. It will open with an Ignite activity run by Bre Pettis starting at 6:30. The activity? A scavenger hunt… of sorts. It will be followed by some Ignite talks. A call for talks will be issued shortly.
**Quick Tip: If what you read below sounds fun, sign-up **
Dear Cruel 2 B Kind Assassins,
This email contains your 3 secret weapons, plus a few killer tips, for your
Saturday afternoon game.
Read this entire email carefully, or you’ll wind up dead faster than you can
say “There’s something’s rotten in the state of Seattle…”
The four most important things to do before the game
1) Learn the Booty Variant rules before you come. No one will explain the
game to you when you get there. Here are the rules:
http://www.cruelgame.com/games/
2) Each and every player must bring a piece of booty to surrender!
3) If you haven’t printed your handy pocket-sized guide to benevolent
assassination, you can download it here and bring it to the game with you:
http://www.cruelgame.com/games/cruel2bkindbooty.pdf . You may want to print
this email as well.
4) Call or SMS to 206.355.1091 when you arrive within game boundaries,
between 1:30 PM and 2:00 PM tomorrow, to check-in. You can use any phone to
play, and don’t worry about the earlier email request to confirm your phone
via text message. Any phone you bring is fine. And if you are calling, and I
don’t pick up, you can always leave a voice mail message to check in, report
kills, or ask for live assistance.
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The boundaries for your game are:
Cal Anderson Park & surroundings (Boundaries: North – Denny, South – Pike,
East – 12th, West – Broadway)
You have 3 weapons to use in your Saturday afternoon game.
WEAPON A – Wish your targets a happy made-up holiday
WEAPON B – Notice something “intriguing” about your targets
WEAPON C – Mistake your targets for celebrities
You can use ANY of these weapons at any time. You can also be killed by any
of these weapons, at any time.
Killer Tip #1: After you check-in (text or call the live
puppet master at 206.355.1091 between 1:30 and 1:59 PM), there will be no
official announcement that the game has started. When your watch says 2:00
PM, start killing!
Killer Tip #2: Be stealthy in your attacks! If another team
spots you being cruel and kind, you’ll instantly become their target. Keep a
low profile to stay alive longer and to pull off sneak attacks!
If you catch a team off-guard and manage to attack them BEFORE they try to
attack you, ANY weapon you choose will effectively kill them.
However: If both teams start attacking simultaneously, you will apply a
rock-paper-scissors system to determine which weapon was the most deadly.
HOLIDAY beats INTRIGUING
INTRIGUING beats CELEBRITIES
CELEBRITIES beats HOLIDAY
Write this on a scrap of paper or your hand before tomorrow’s game so you
don’t forget which weapons outranks another!
SAME WEAPONS used during the same encounter cancel each other out. You have
30 seconds to flee and cannot kill each other in this time. You can then
stalk and attack again, or move on to a different target.
Killer Tip #3: You (and your teammates) must be within 5
feet of your target(s) at the time of attack. If a team tries to attack you
from across the street or halfway down the block, you can refuse to
surrender!
When you successfully kill a team, immediately text or call the puppet
master with the dead team’s name. Report your kill as soon as possible, to
maximize your point total! When you’ve collected your booty, join forces
with your victims and keep stalking your prey…
When you are killed, surrender your personal booty to any ONE player whose
attack impressed you most.
Killer Tip #4: Collected booty is worth big points at the
end of the game. So even if you get killed first, you can still be one of
the top players… IF you impress your future victims and convince them you
are worthy of their booty.
Killer Tip # 5: The game will end with a text message or
phone call from the puppet master. (You’ll get the secret location for the
assassins awards and debriefing.) Until the PM contacts you, there are still
alive assassins that need to be killed!
Remember: If you have any questions about how to play Cruel 2 B Kind, you
can reply to this email before Saturday. During the game, you can call the
live puppet master at 206.355.1091!
Good luck tomorrow. Be cruel! Be kind!
Bre and I would like to thank the following people for their help before, during and after Ignite 3.
Thanks to:
Matt May – He left the event to get us a projector; we would have been screwed without him.
Allegra Searle-LeBel – She ran a camera helped with video setup
Ryan Stewart – He was the live twitterer.
Paolo Tosolini – He ran a third video camera and edited the awesome behind the scenes video. Connie Savoie – She braved the onslaught of paper airplanes to hold up the hula-hoop.
Special thanks to:
Bryan Zug – He is the lead cameraman, a/v guy, and editor of the ignite videos.
Jesse Robbins – He is the speaker and presentation wrangler
Gabriel Williams – He made an admin form that none of you saw, but saved me a ton of time.
And thanks to everyone who came and has been supporting us.
We have a logo! We’ve been working on it for a while and we’re pretty happy with the results.
If you’re in SF this Sunday come by for the first Ignite Expo!. You can see the schedule on the Web 2.0 Expo blog.
Brian McConnell, one of our Ignite 3 speakers, wrote in to tell us that the subject of his talk is ready to be used! From Brian:
The Worldwide Lexicon, an open source translation project, made its first appearance at Ignite. WWL enables websites to translate their content to any language, by recruiting bilingual users from their audience to contribute translations via a wiki. WWL is inviting more websites to join its test. Visit www.worldwidelexicon.org for more information.
Joining the network is as simple as posting your site’s full text RSS feed address. WWL polls your RSS feed for new texts, and then creates wiki pages for translations to any number of languages. You can either let WWL host the translations, or if you want to be fancy about it, loop RSS back from the WWL system to your site.
Ignite 3 happens tonight. Here are the details:
Where: CHAC Upstairs – 1621 12th Ave, Seattle, WA 98122 (don’t worry we’ll have more space this time)
When:
Why: Because it’s fun!
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Come to Cal Anderson Park on April 21st to play a game with 100s people. The game is Cruel 2 B Kind.The goal is to make the other players surrender to you. Your weapons are acts of kindness such as compliments. Your team grows with each surrender until there are mobs of people walking around complimenting each other. It’s a delightful game invented by Jane McGonigal and Ian Bogost. We are going to be the first to play it in Seattle.
You can sign up for Cruel 2 B Kind on the Cruel Game website. You can sign up in a team or by yourself. You should read the rules. In the days before the game the “weapons” will be announced via email and SMS. We will be playing the Booty Variant — everyone brings a piece of Booty and surrenders it when they succumb to another player. Rules will be posted around the park so that people can play even thought they didn’t formally sign-up.
The Seattle Cruel 2 B Kind sign-in will begin at 1:30PM on 4/21, the game will begin at 2PM and the game will end around 3PM. We’ll find a bar to go to or just plop down for a picnic. The playing field will have the following boundaries:
North – Denny
South – Pike
East – 12th
West – Broadway
Here’s how the inventors describe it:
At the beginning of the game, you and a partner-in-crime are assigned a secret weapon. To onlookers, it will seem like a random act of kindness. But to a select group of other players, the seemingly benevolent gesture is a deadly maneuver that will bring them to their knees.
Some players will be slain by a serenade. Others will be killed by a compliment. You and your partner might be taken down by an innocent group cheer.
You will be given no information about your targets. No name, no photo, nothing but the guarantee that they will remain within the outdoor game boundaries during the designated playing time. Anyone you encounter could be your target. The only way to find out is to attack them with your secret weapon.
Watch out: The hunter is also the hunted. At the beginning of the game, you and your partner will also be assigned your own secret weakness. Other pairs of players have been given your secret weakness as their secret weapon, and they’re coming to get you. Anything out of the ordinary you do to assassinate YOUR targets may reveal your own secret identity to the other players who want you dead.
As targets are successfully assassinated, the dead players join forces with their killers to continue stalking the surviving players. The teams grow bigger and bigger until two final mobs of benevolent assassins descend upon each other for a spectacular, climactic kill.
Will innocents be caught in the cross-fire? Oh, yes. But when your secret weapon is a random act of kindness, it’s only cruel to be kind to other players…
I hope that you decide to come out to play. BTW, the game is being organized by Brady Forrest and Serena Batten, but as you can tell from the description the game doesn’t really need any organization. See you at Cal Anderson
This Thursday night, we’re going to be making paper airplanes! We’ll have paper, markers, and scotch tape for you to make your own paper airplane and decorate it with hot rod flames or butterfly wing designs. You’ll then have to throw it across the room through a hoola-hoop on stage. If your airplane makes it through, you’ll move on to the next round! No paperclips, stones, lead weights, or just crumpling a piece of paper up into a ball and throwing it through the hoop!
Paper airplane building starts officially at 6:30 with the throwing beginning at 7:30. Do you have some mad crazy awesome paper airplane folding skills or just like to make cool airplanes? Stick a piece of duck tape to your chest where you would normally put a name tag. That’s the secret sign that folks will be looking for when they need an expert to teach them how to make a sweet paper airplane! (Duck tape will be provided)
Bring safety glasses, you enter the paper airplane zone at your own risk. Safety glasses are the new black!
Do you know of any resources for awesome paper airplanes? Put links in the comments! I’ve got a paper airplane design that a red headed gal taught me how to make in the first grade. I’m going to reproduce this design and upload it to the Make: Flickr Pool later. If you’ve got a tried and true design, find a way to document it and upload it to the pool too!
After the paper airplane madness, Brady, who writes for the Radar blog has a ton of awesome speakers lined up for the ask later presentations!
As always, there will be a bar where you can buy drinks and there will be lots of chit chat and hanging out. It’s a great place to go up to someone and ask them, “What do you make?”
Seattle geeks, nerds, and makers unite at Seattle Ignite!
(Photo Credit: Global Hermit)
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