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speaking of sxsw, the best thing about conferences is meeting everyone. i am not shy, but when meeting someone, the first few minutes of small talk can be excruciatingly painful. so, i propose a giant 5 day game of "1,000 blank white cards". here is how it could work...
everyone brings a shitload of biz (or blank) cards to austin. the back of each card has hand written text on it, a simple illustration, and a point value. the text may be simple or abstract. point value is whatever you judge to fit the text.
example 1 - smell like a goat, -150 points
example 2 - use "but crud" in a sentence and receive 2 points
example 3 - fish head tooth brush, -2843.72 points
example 4 - bootylicious people in da house, 12 points
when meeting some one "in the game" you exchange business cards. collecting cards becomes an excuse to start up conversation with people you may not usually do so.
once we all return home, we post point totals on a blog dedicated to the game. maybe even scan and post interesting cards received!
don't be intimidated/frustrated by lack of rules to the game, that is the beauty of it. it is a completely nonsensical game, so it should not breed any competition but perhaps some interesting conversation.
i (and perhaps others?) would be willing to sponsor a couple gag prizes for categories like "player point total nearest to 666" or "player with the most cards containing the phrase 'butt crud'"
i will take the initiative to set up a game blog if we can get a minimum of 25 confirmed players. i am very interested in any game enhancement ideas you may have.
anyone interested?
i also posted this idea on the "sxswblog site", a great place to get excited about the conference.
Posted by griff at February 03, 2003 12:46 AM