Kottbusser Tor, Berlin and Times Square, NYC

Some great Fotos by Merlin, Valary and Lynn

F Be I, See I A is Urban Capture The Flag without the sweat. No running, no shouting. Just walking and talking. Celebrating peer-to-peer communication in its purest form, players move carefully into the enemy team’s territory as groups of under cover Field Agents connected to each other through two-way radios. Their Mission is to discreetly photograph targets of varying difficulty without being seen by the enemy team’s Patrols. Following bot-like movement patterns, Patrols guard their own territory by walking along a tight mesh of strictly predetermined routes. Observing and exploiting the weak points in their network of defence is key to success. This is an Invisible Game. Blend in, hide in plain sight. In the end, one of two teams wins. But if no non-player noticed that a game was played, both teams pulled something bigger off together: they held on to a shared secret.

The game has been played at Kottbusser Tor, Berlin and at Times Square, New York City during Come Out & Play 2009. If you want to run the game at these locations, we’ll supply you with maps and rulesets. Also, we’re happy to help you adapt the game to other locations, just get in touch.

Here’s some player communication we recorded on Times Square:

And here’s a fun clip from PopSci’s “Future Of Play” show featuring the game: