HeroNet

I developed this game with a great group of people during the Nordic Game Jam last weekend, where we had 48 hours to make a game. Funny enough I went to the board games track thinking I didn't feel like spending a weekend with tired and grumpy programmers (an they probably didn't want to spend a weekend with a designer/artist looking over their shoulder waiting for stuff to get done). But somehow the game ended up more perhaps more digital than boardgamey.

HeronNet is an augmented reality game that requires you to sign up at heronet.dk in order to become a true reallife superhero. The goal is to accumulate either prestige or notoriety, depending on whether you wanted to be a superhero or a supervillain.

So the rules of the game is to sign-up and then create deeds on the website, which gives you an URL, which then in turn you need to spread out. The catch is that you need to spread it out anonymously, since superheroes can't expose their true identity. So perhaps you could do good deeds such as giving out free candy and leaving you URL at the candy, people would then go to the URL and give you either prestige or notoriety. If someone knows your true identity, they can go to the website and expose you, destroying your hero profile and collecting all your points.

Our goal with the game was to create a game, people were always part of (like Assasin) but without inducing fear and paranoia. And also make people do small good deeds around and spread a little happiness.

We didn't win anything at the game jam, which was expected I guess, since it was probably disqualified for not being a boardgame, but we had comments on the fact that it would a really interesting social experiment, so I suppose that's cool.

But anyway, humanity is suffering while I write this post, so go the heronet.dk and create your hero... NOW!