This week we will take a break to discuss a live action game, its similar to larping, and an ARG, but more like how to host a murder.
Backstabb is a project that i have been cultivating over the last 20 years. It involves teams gathering information trying to solve a crime (or series of crimes). The winning team is the team that solves the crime first.
This usually involves spreading clues out across a large area, a college campus works great, but we have used large parks and whole cities as well.
The clues form three to four different levels with multiple on each level. What that means is that a level on clue will give you hints about how to find other level one clues and a level two clue. This is done so that not all teams will head to the same place at the same time, and in case if one clue is two difficult you are not stuck with no way to advance. Each level one clue has a different hint about how to get to level two and so on.
Some clues will require you to make real world phone calls and listen to messages, contact and interact with chat robots, figure out cypher codes and anything else we can figure out.
Its a lot of fun, a good way for gamers to get some exercise. Jesters Hand has plans to make a re-playable commercially available game with different difficulty levels available. Backstabb is a fun project, but it is a labor intensive effort and a good play test requires a huge amount of resources to do. We will update ya more on this later.
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