The first thing that pops up in my mind after the virtual geocache scavenger hunt–which I totally love…big fan of anything “treasure hunty”… is Assassins Guild.

As far as I know, the rules are pretty simple and require no story. Someone is assigned to hit you, but you don’t know who they are. With the iPhone model, you just need a way to communicate phone-to-phone to someone on the network that they’ve been hit.

It’s interesting to imagine in a city of random people what interesting games we might play. And it’s not like some of us don’t pretend play A LOT. I mean “Internet friends”? Pretending that I actually KNOW these people? But there’s an interactivity there… an interactivity that I don’t really have with IRL “real people”. So playing out fantasy games with imaginary friends on the street doesn’t seem like much of a stretch… but does raise a whole ‘nother level of “virtual reality” issues when it starts crossing over. It’s kinda like we’ve for the last 10 years been right on the brink with Reality 1.9b… and things are about to change. What fun!