to pull these off it requires both good large event organising and good performance-event design and good story/world building AND good game design. To achieve all of this is WILD
and that’s only the stuff required for conceptualising the thing, not the marketing/digital resources/audience building/relationship building/staff building/physical resourcing
it’s wild to me that humans can do this and it kinda sounds amazing
organising towards actual causes through these methods? keeping real important causes fun can be more difficult
Blast Theory - can you see me now, Sheffield map of runners, use of PDA data, online players chasing offline players
Uncle Roy All Around You, Manchester, underworld conspiracy ARG type thing, codes for buildings, geocaching style, your image on billboards - massive coordination efforts, matched with random pen pal to support each other