Be a Monster at the GDC!

For anyone who is going to GDC and is interested in being part of gameLab's "massively multiplayer offline game," here is the info from Eric Zimmerman:

Dear F.O.E.
(Friend of gameLab),

Hi. As you may already know, each year gameLab runs a massively multiplayer real-world game experiment at the Game Developers' Conference. This year's game is ConfQuest, our real-world RPG. And we're contacting you because we'd like to invite you to take a special role in this madness.

The core idea of ConfQuest is that players choose character classes and roam the conference looking for wandering monsters to fight. We're inviting you to take the role of a wandering monster. If you choose to accept, you'll be become a ConfQuest monster, such as a Rat, Faceless Enemy, 32-bit Boss, or Teenage Dragon. And as an additional thank-you, we're holding a prize drawing for the most-battled monster over the course of the game.

The game will take place Wednesday and Thursday during the main conference. Your participation during the conference is entirely based on your availability, so you'll be able to drop out of the game at any time for a session, meeting, or meal - you can simply hide the "monster ribbon" on your badge to suspend your game participation. And as you're a _wandering_ monster, you won't even have to change your normal conference activities. Simply go about your business and be ready to do battle with the foolish players who dare approach you.

If this sounds like fun, send us an email and let us know you're interested. If you want to play as a monster, you should attend the introduction meeting at 6:30pm on Tuesday in the lobby of the Argent Hotel (50 3rd Street, near the convention center). If you can't make that time, we are also meeting with monsters Wednesday morning at 8:30am at the ConfQuest HQ on the 3rd floor lobby of the convention center (that's in the morning right before the main conference starts).

Try to make one of these two meetings! Bring your friends! We need monsters! If you want to be a monster and you can't make either of them, that's OK. Just look for a gameLabber at the game HQ on the first day of the GDC.

We look forward to seeing and gaming with you at the
GDC.

- gameLab, eric@gmlb.com