Ludocity: a game ruleset wiki

In the wake of Come Out and Play and Hide and Seek, with Igfest coming up in September, and with pervasive games and new sports becoming increasingly widespread, a few people have been asking us questions like:

• Are you going to put up the rules for more of the Sandpit games?
• How could I run a Sandpit-like event myself?
• Seriously, the rules for Checkpoint, when can we have them?

With the usual Sandpit enthusiasm, we’ve responded by setting up Ludocity, a wiki dedicated to pervasive games and new sports. There are twenty tested rulesets up there already, including some classics from Hide and Seek, Come Out and Play, Iglab and the Sandpit. All of these have been generously released under a creative commons license, which means that anyone can run them for free, anywhere in the world, so long as they credit the original designer.

If you’ve got a game of your own, feel free to start writing it up with the help of the guidelines. If you’ve played one of the games that are up there already, you can add some photos, leave some feedback on the game’s discussion page, or describe any variants you’ve invented or discovered.

Now that you’ve got all these rulesets, there’s also an evolving howto guide to running an event like the Sandpit; another one for smaller events; and space for pretty much anything involving the sort of games and sports that run at Hide and Seek or Come Out and Play, including a page to suggest new features.

What there isn’t, yet, is the rules to Checkpoint… but nothing’s perfect. Give us another week.