Pictionary Photobooth

Ogilvy & Mather, Colombia, created a live interactive experience to promote the game of Pictionary.

People stepped into a free photobooth set up in a mall, took “pictures”, and 10 seconds later, received cartoons of themselves as scribbled by a hidden cartoonist.

A clever immersive idea to promote a fun product.

Contributed by Jonathan Graham

The World’s Biggest PAC-MAN

We’ve seen the MMOG Wordsquared, now Pac-Man fans can eat their pac-dots too in The World’s Biggest PAC-MAN. Built in HTML5 to promote IE9 by the folks at Soap.

via laughingsquid

What the Kids are Doing on Facebook

Draw My Thing is a new game on Facebook that’s picking up speed.

Users can connect with their friends or strangers and play a Pictionary type of game.

http://apps.facebook.com/drawmything/

Magnum Pleasure Hunt

Clever game site from B-Reel takes you through different online worlds.

Great execution on a nice idea.

http://pleasurehunt.mymagnum.com

Contributed by Caio Lazzuri

Classic Handheld Games

Its hard to describe how important portable entertainment is.  These classics bring back lots of memories for me.

Any familiar to you?

http://www.pica-pic.com/

Contributed by Jeremy Adirim and Leila Coffman

Wordsquared, a massive multiplayer online word game

When Word with Friends just isn’t enough.

Face Invaders

Face Invaders - Shoot your Facebook friends like Space Invaders. Made by DLKW

Badge Games and Ninja Hackers

DefCon is the world’s largest hacker convention.

For this year’s convention, elite hacker gang, the Ninjas, have created an interactive role-playing game that is played through specially designed badges, distributed only to those invited to their private party.

One of the most exclusive venues for fraternizing at DefCon is the Ninja party. To attend the party attendees have to know one of the Ninjas and they have to give them a badge.
In years past, a Ninja would give a party attendee a sticker or a paper invite that would get them in to the party. Last year the Ninjas took the party invite to the next level when they created their own custom badge for their party attendees. This year, badge designers Amanda Wozniak and Brandon Creighton decided to take the badge to the next level, and then some. What started as a sketch on a napkin ended up as an amazing hacker gaming and development platform.
(Via Wired)

The badge combines an old school look and feel with cutting edge features, such as the ability to wirelessly communicate with other badges.

In order to fund these extravagant badges, Ninja got funding from Facebook and Lookout:

In order to test the game while the badges were being developed, the Ninjas used the iPhone app SDK:

And to top it all off, the badge comes with an instruction manual that almost exactly mirrors the original NES manual:

All of this makes my “Adventurer” badge on Foursquare seem pretty.. dated.

The Intersection of Mobile and Physical

Shopkick teams up with Best Buy to reward customers for just walking into the store. You can’t cheat and check in. Working in the background, a mobile application keeps track of your physical location. Either you are in or out. The potential for this type of application is enormous, think about keeping track of where people actually are in relation to user or purchase behavior.

iPing Pong

Ping Pong battle is a Ping Pong game for the iPad / iPhone where the ball is virtual and you use your iPhone as the paddle.