To play Lemonopoly, players complete lemony challenges in the categories of Agriculture, Trade and Lemoncraft. These challenges range from really easy, delicious and kid-friendly, to more challenging — requiring collaboration with your neighbors. You will get to learn, eat, grow things and make friends!

The goal of this slow game is to become Lemon Independent, and build up our local lemon economies. The winning city gets the title of “The Big Lemon,” and bragging rights. Right now, the cities of San Jose, San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley are all competing against each other. Team #SFO will represent at Come Out and Play, where we will set up our lemonAID stand, do some special lemony games. (And hopefully we will boost San Francisco out of last place!)

You can start playing right now: Find a few local lemons from San Francisco to bring to share. We need a lot of lemons for the game! If you like, you can tweet photos of your lemons: @lemonopoly #sfo

Commissioned by ZERO1 with support from the James Irvine Foundation and presented in collaboration with SOMArts Cultural Center and the Come Out & Play Festival.

Play with your iPhone or just show up and receive a Game Card!

DECEMBER 1ST

2:00 PM – 4:00 PM 

START : Victoria Manalo Draves Park near Folsom St and 6th St, San Francisco 

Players assume the character of an Auto, Balloon or Roadrunner. Using maps and the geo-locative iPhone/iPad app, ARIS, players solve quests from Kachinas, awarded pins and are chased by Coyotes. The quests relate to their mode of mobility and the history of urban development of New Mexico.

OVERVIEW

Montañas a Mesas is a city game simulating the effects and challenges of mobility by air, vehicle and animal using the landscape of Albuquerque from the Sandia Mountains to the West Albuquerque Mesa. This multi player – all ages game takes on the familiarity tag and a scavenger hunt using downtown San Francisco as the game board.

OBJECT OF THE GAME:
To follow your roles path to the end, checking in with all Kachinas along the way. If a coyote spirit catches you, you must answer a tricky question. How you answer this question will either add or subtract from your overall accomplishments. Win the game by getting pins from all locations both physical and virtual.

WHAT YOU NEED:
This game can be played without technology, but there are clues, incentives and awards if you play using the ARIS app on an iPad or iPhone.

Click here for more information on how to How to use ARIS.

You will also need comfortable shoes and need to arrive on time.

Watch Out! Coyotes are the chasers in this game. There are limited numbers of these characters but if they catch you they can take away one of your pins Unless, you are able to solve one of their tricky riddles!

The Kachina’s are the wise keepers of knowledge. Kachina’s are at each site and will ask a riddle to the curious car, balloon and roadrunner. If they answer the question correctly you will award them with a pin.

PLAYERS:

Each person is randomly chosen to be a roadrunner, auto or balloon. Players follow a path through the city, checking in with Kachinas along the way. The Coyote spirit who can help or hinder them on their journey may also chase you.

GAME
The game Montañas to Mesa uses a game structure similar to tag and scavenger hunt along with a geo-locative mobile app while players assume the character of an auto, balloon and roadrunner. These three must compete with each other to reach their destinations as each has an advantage and disadvantage over the other.

Using familiar geo locative systems with smart phones they players will be given clues and tips tied to a fact about their mode of mobility and the history of urban development of Albuquerque. These clues are set up like a scavenger hunt where in order to reach their destination they must collect, contribute or take action using the information they receive from the mobile communication system.

GAME CREDITS
Game created by San Francisco Artist and New Mexico native, Danielle Siembieda, in collaboration with DC Spensley.

OOOOHHH, I LOVE IT! CAN I VOLUNTEER???

Why, yes you can! We are looking for several volunteers to participate in our Play Test and Costume Making day. Come Join Us!

Questions? We have answers. email info (at) siembieda (dot) com

What Does is the Game Like? Check ou this video for the Game at ISEA 2012

Cast yourself into the game with Shadowplay, a large-scale street game projected directly onto the walls of New York City. Players jump, dash, stretch and contort their shadows in a bid to score points by eclipsing objects floating through the game. Play alone or collaboratively.

Jericho is an Urban Game that is a battle of wits, because everyone is a spy! Think of it as a game of capture the flag played in public …..plus everyone is armed with a Nerf gun.

Jericho takes a group of people and divides them into two teams of spies, offense & defense. Offense selects one member to be Courier who picks-up and delivers a top secret item somewhere close by in the city. Defense tries to prevent the Courier from completing this mission. Teams switch every other mission.

Hat (or hood) and unmodified Nerf gun required to play.

Official rules here

Jericho will be starting at 7pm from SoMarts instead of the listed 6pm start time, but you can always arrive earlier and partake of the gallery games!

A puzzle hunt through SoMa with a historical touch. Teams of up to 6 people search the SoMa area to solve a series of puzzles left behind by the famous stagecoach bandit Black Bart in an attempt to decipher the final hiding place of his hidden loot.

Saturday, November 17 from 10am to 6pm.  Starting and ending at SOMArts (934 Brannan St).

To sign up, go to http://blackbart.eventbrite.com

By the end of the game, one of the players has won – but invariably, the winner has spent all of his or her money to achieve victory. Does everyone keep the dollars they have? Is the money redistributed equally? Or does the winner take all? Intentional ambiguity in the rules forces players to deicide what to do with the cash at the end of the game.

Sixteen Tons was commissioned by the Art History of Games conference in Atlanta in February 2010. Since then it has been exhibited at Indiecade in Los Angeles (where it won the Developers Choice award) and at the NYU Game Center’s No Quarter exhibition. A tabletop version of the game was presented at the 2011 F.R.O.G. conference in Vienna.

Special thanks to Molo Design for sponsorship of the walls, the NYU Game Center for ongoing support of this project, Stephen Bodnar at SCAD for fabricating the game pieces, and Art History of Games curator John Sharp for initiating the project.

For one month only, experience a visiting selection of the Hearst family’s collection of priceless paintings and sculptures from the ancient and modern worlds. Security will be tight and showings will occur in small groups, but this rare opportunity for personal enrichment will be worth the wait.