Friday, April 29, 2005

Life-size board game

Ok, I don't have much to tell you about my life right now. Oh, I just recently applied to the John Howard Society to be a literacy tutor. So I'm gonna teach ex-cons how to read. I'm looking forward to making some worthwhile contribution to society; I'll keep you posted.

Here's another one of my amazing, must-see links: The World is a brilliant idea thought up by people in the United Arab Emirates city of Dubai, who obviously have way too much money, and time on their hands. Click on that, then when you get through the intro, click on the "master plan" button in the navigation area in the top left corner.
Now, there's really only one good use for something like that, and I hope I'm not the only one thinking it: Human Risk! You could take unskilled, working-poor type people, like let's say, Walmart Greeters, or better yet, security guards, use them as game pieces. The players would all be obscenely rich people who wear monocles and drink martinis all day. Since the game board is huge, of course everything else has to be huge too. The die would have to be at least as big as medicine balls, and you'd heave them one at a time. Your armies would unleash their rage on your enemies without mercy, and triumphantly storm into territories they conquer ("yaaaay.. we're the best. Woohoo." Can you feel the excitement?) Then at the end of your turn, you take a card (a huge card, of course. It'd have to be at least as big as a sandwich board, maybe even as big as a billboard. The only problem would be transporting troops. I guess they could either use Huies, or maybe Higgins Boats
I guess it'd be a little much to expect each of these little islands to actually look like each individual island, or area it's supposed to represent. For example, there's an entire island devoted to Alberta, I believe it's F25 on the map.
So, anyone up for a game?