Gaming focuses on clear goals, rules of engagement and narrative. Play interactive games of any form, or incorporate game mechanics into other processes.

Related Activities

Play an existing game
Improve an existing game
Create a new game
Turn a task into a game
Craft parts to support a game

Badges Needed

Solitaire

  • Have someone teach you a game they know.
  • Play Telestrations without whiteboards.
  • Write a critique of a game you made after playing it the first time.
  • Start at a random Wikipedia page and surf through links until you arrive at a Geek Dictionary topic.
  • Play Formula D using custom cars that fit the playing space.

Cooperative

  • Play ‘Say Anything’ with 4-7 other people.
  • Change the rules of a one-winner-only game to make it collaborative.
  • Create a game that is easy to explain.
  • Play it Forward: When someone helps you with a project, help two other people who share some trait with that person
  • Organize a small group project to prototype a new card game.

Bits & Boxes

  • Learn a new smartphone game
  • Add a scoring system to Gloom to make it easy to see who is winning.
  • Design and build the same simple computer game using Scratch and Game Salad.
  • Using cleaning materials, devise a game that tidies a station.
  • Make a templating tool to mass-produce unusually-shaped cards for a game.

Wheat Czar

  • Spend 15 minutes with 4 other people researching everything you can about ‘Evolution’ before playing the game.
  • Change rules of a game to make it play faster without taking away enjoyment
  • Write a story about 7 random objects, and turn that narrative into a game.
  • Race a friend to find the same material parts needed to build a catapult.
  • Photograph and print cards for a Meme game

Kickstarted

  • Recruit at least 5 other people to play a table-top game.
  • List all of the possible consequences of your rules changes when attempting to improve a game.
  • Write the instructions for a game created at Geek Camp.
  • Compete with 2 other campers to get the most interactions in a single day when promoting a Geek Camp project.
  • Investigate how game parts are manufactured

Metagamer

  • Before the end of a game you are playing, switch hands/pieces with another player.
  • Play ‘Say the Same Thing’ with a stranger and ask them how they would improve it.
  • Invent a social game for campers to play.
  • After intentionally make a grammatical error, challenge people on social media to find the most mistakes in the least amount of time.
  • Make containers for a seek-and-find game that involves leaving and finding secret messages.