Budgetball
A while ago I was invited by Jackie of area/code to participate in New York’s first Budgetball tournament.
I gotta say I really enjoyed being part of the event. It was the first time I played a sport where you had to plan and make strategic decisions spanning not only over the current match: Instead you had to manage a budget of points over the course of the whole tournament.
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I was on the purple team and we made the 2nd place due to our superior strategizing…
It was a great example of how you can take elements that have turned out to work really well in computer games and apply them to a physical sport. I’d like to see more of that. I could imagine some kind of sport where the computer would generate situations for the game and players could then influence the game world by actions on the field or the like.
I really think that computer games doesn’t mean that we have to sit in a chair or a couch. I suspect that soon enough a new wave of mobile games using location in an innovative way has the potential of creating a new genre of games….