Kickstarter

THANK YOU SO MUCH to all 139 backers who pledged their support for Come Out & Play San Francisco's fabulous 2012 game designers! Because we are a community event first and foremost, it's really wonderful that so many people pulled together like this to help us meet our goal!

No more nagging from us to increase your pledge or spread the word about our campaign. All we want from you now is for you and your friends & family to join us at the exhibition and festival for a good time!! Come play all the games supported by this campaign during the Exhibition (Nov 17-Dec 8) and the Festival (Dec 1-2). 

As they're available, details will be announced via Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/COaPGames), twitter (@comeoutandplay), our website (http://www.comeoutandplaysf.org), and SOMArts' (http://www.somarts.org/). We always need volunteers to help run the event, so keep an eye out for our volunteer request form in the next few weeks if you'd like to be even more involved beyond your (awesome!) financial contributions. Many past volunteers are now part of the organizing group and/or run games. 

We'll be following up with everyone in the coming weeks to get your information for the rewards. Most important is to look for a good full-body photograph of yourself for our Robot attack graphic!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FROM EVERYONE AT COME OUT & PLAY TO OUR AMAZING BACKERS:

Greg Trefry, Rebekah Fugate, Daniel James, ericsoco, Nate Pollak, Ian Kizu-Blair, Tova Carlin, Brea Taylor-Munro, Tom Lowenthal, Sarah Pauly, Rebecca Cousin, Douglas Wilson, EKha, Gwen Gordon, Leda Marritz, Cameron Suey, Foxhound Urban Adventures, Gabriel Roland, lia bulaong, raymond browning, Carl West, Markus Hametner, Jon Williams, KentKB, Colinaut, Somair, Amy Wawak, Googa, Tyler Freeman, Cindy Au, Joshua Levy, Christopher Berner, Adam Dingle, Adam Florin, stephanie, Kevan Davis, sskregness, Brent Lew, Calcagno Cullen, Tony Vila, Adam Spector, ryan malloy, Elizabeth Belfer, Mike Kwan, Matthew Rust, Martha Garvey, Ari Melman, Uli Schuster, Ian, Brendan Mauro, Jeff Gray, Steven An, Tieg Zaharia, Jeevan Kalanithi, Katherine de Le√≥n, Marek Belski, Allie, Geoffrey Cullen, Tish Shute, Jenny Tsai, Ariel Jackson, Elizabeth, sara thacher, re:SEAT, matt kizu, Alyea Sandovar, Mimi Kirchner, tina l., lethalbeef, Ben, Altay Guvench, Jessie Phillips Andersen, Christopher Fagerlund, Sam Gilbert, megan cohen, Grant, Christopher Coco, Ryan Wakamiya, Lien Tran, Uriah Findley, Rohan Dhaimade, Bonnie Puckett, Daniel Levin Becker, Tiffany Ng, Conor Nash, Andrew Lee, Matt Kelly, Brett Lockspeiser, Mira Lim, Myles Nye, Michael Clement, Nick Grandy, Sonya Philip, Obscure Games, Alanna Simone, Jennifer Hayes, Paul Sottosanti, Rory Alexander, Farrell Madden, nexus says, Sam Stafford, Evan Ginsburg, Pat Ashe, Charles J Pratt, Miguel Sicart, Deirdre Araujo, Lukas Fittl, Lee Cody, David Fono, clayton au-yeung, Ellis Kim, Bryan Culbertson, Rena Kiehn, Tiffany Harker, larry hosken, Lauren KValheim, Laurel, Jonathan McKeever, Thomas Lotze, Patrick Ewing, John Greg Gomez, Sean-Michael Lewis, Roman, Tim Conkling, Jackie, Sean Mahan, Nelz, Ethan Levy, Michael Garvey, Jason Naumoff, Orion Kellogg, Devin Sandoz, Erik Shirokoff, Gabe Smedresman, David Van Duzer, Leafcutter Designs, Catherine Herdlick, Finnegan Kelly, John Teasdale, and  Elven McKnight

Thanks so much everyone for helping us meet our goal! 

With these final hours, let's try for a final pledge surge. Because of the fees that Kickstarter and Amazon take (5% each), we'll only get $6782 of the $7536 we've raised. In fact, we'll probably really only have about $6000 to work with since we need to spend $ on making and shipping some of the rewards.

If we can get our campaign backing up to $8400, we'll have something more like $7000 to work with to support our designers. 

Also, a final pledge surge will look cool. :) 

Please help by increasing your pledge or encouraging a friend to donate. We need any of the following to reach our goal: 

• 50 x $25 pledges (get a robot-attack print!)
• 31 x $40 pledges (get a t-shirt!)
• 17 x $75 pledges (get front-of-the-line access!)
• 13 x $100 pledges (get your image on the robot-attack graphic!) <---- BEST/COOLEST DEAL!
• 3 x $500 pledges (get a commemorative wood inlay map of the exhibition/festival SOMA neighborhood by http://woodcutmaps.com) <--- BEAUTIFUL WALL ART!

If we don't hit $7500, we get NOTHING! Help us get there!! Your pledge will be helping to underwrite these games:

DRAFT SATURDAY 12/1 SCHEDULE*

At SOMArts, Inside

• 12-5pm: Exhibition Games
• 12-5pm: Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots (from Exhibition, turned on) 
• 12-5pm: LOCKED (from Exhibition, turned on) 
• 12-2pm: Propiniquity (on stage) - $ pending
• 3-5pm: Third-Person Outer Body (on stage)

At SOMArts, Garden

• 1-3pm: Obtain the Briefcase (meets and disperses to the streets)
• 1-3pm: Slothchase (starts at SOMArts, ends at Victoria Manolo Draves Park)
• 12-5pm: Ninja (activity to ease line pain)

• 12-5pm: Ninja (activity to ease line pain)
• 12-5pm: Origami Fishing Game
• ??: Sensoree
• ??: Lemonopoly
• 12-2pm: Hula Hoop Tag
• 12-2:30pm: Pinkball
• 12-2:30pm: Staccato
• 2-3pm: Broom Ships
• 2:30-5pm: Don't Drop the Ball
• 2:30-5pm: Pickpocket Junction
• 3-5pm: Humans v. Mosquitos

DRAFT SUNDAY 12/2 SCHEDULE*

At SOMArts, Inside

• 12-5pm: Exhibition Games
• 12-5pm: Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots (from Exhibition, turned on) 
• 12-5pm: LOCKED (from Exhibition, turned on) 
• 12-5pm: The Hush (pervasive - pick up and play all day)
• 12-2pm: Third-Person Outer Body (on stage)
• 3-5pm: Propiniquity (on stage) - $ pending

At SOMArts, Garden

• 12-5pm: The Hush (pervasive - pick up and play all day)
• 12-5pm: Ninja (activity to ease line pain)
• 1-3pm: Slothchase (starts at SOMArts, ends at Victoria Manolo Draves Park)
• 3-5pm: Obtain the Briefcase

Victoria Manolo Draves Park

• 12-5pm: The Hush (pervasive - pick up and play all day)
• 12-5pm: Ninja (activity to ease line pain)
• 12-5pm: Origami Fishing Game
• ??: Sensoree
• ??: Lemonopoly
• 12-2pm: Humans v. Mosquitos
• 12-2pm: Don't Drop the Ball
• 12-2:30: Pickpocket Junction
• 2-3pm: Broom Ships
• 2-4pm: Pinkball
• 3-5pm: Staccato
• 3-5pm: Hula Hoop Tag

Wrap Party, The Cottage (7-10pm)

• The Hush (pervasive - pick up and play all day)
• Aristocratic Assassins
• Art Boy Sin

* All schedules and included events are subject to change. Still pending confirmation/approval from partners and designers.  

For just $50 each, you and 19 of your friends can run around San Francisco in your own custom spy adventure game, ducking behind police cars, completing missions, and (of course!) shooting nerf guns. THIS IS JERICHO!

Jericho is an amazing way to celebrate a birthday, wedding, graduation, product launch, startup funding or promotion! Try to pool the money together with some friends to give your boss, employee, child, parent, sibling, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse a NIGHT TO REMEMBER.

Here are Ian and Sean, two Come Out & Play organizers, getting ready to play Jericho:

Here's Shannon, who runs Jericho (and helps run Come Out & Play!):

Catherine from Come Our & Play interviewed Shannon about the private game that he's offering as a reward for 2 lucky $1000 backers - listen and GET PSYCHED!! 

TLDR: Magic donation increase/new pledge: $27. We have cool games planned and don't want to have to cut them!

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The good news: There are 97 people who want to support street game designers!!

The bad news: We still have a long way to go to hit our $7500 goal. If we don't get this money, some games may need to be cut, like the awesome Propinquity which was recently part of the Joue le jeu show in Paris. 

With 97 backers, we're a LOT closer than we were on Friday! The average current donation is $50. If you could give just $27 more - or convince one friend to pledge $27 (or 2 friends to pledge $13.50 each) - we'd be all set! And every extra $ above $27 would be a bonus $ for our designers. 

Be magical like SF Giants Hall-of-Famer Juan Marichel, #27

Here's what your donation gets you:

• ALL - Invitation to the private WRAP PARTY on Sunday, December 2nd with festival designers, organizers, and volunteers
• ALL - Listing/gratitude on our website as an esteemed kickstarter backer!
• $25+ - Your image on the robot-attack graphic! The bigger the donation, the bigger your representation (tip: give $100+ to be recognizable).
• $N - The listed reward based on your $N donation level (temporary tattoo, t-shirt, woodcut map, etc)
• ALL - Pride in supporting an awesome San Francisco tradition and helping underwrite innovative new street games.

In other news, Ian and Catherine got together over the weekend to schedule the games for the exhibition, opening party, and festival. OMG it's going to be so awesome. A quick summary/highlights:

• 15+ games for the festival (including OuterBody Experience by Jason Wilson)
• 4 experimental board games for "The Living Room" (part of the exhibition)
• 10 games for the exhibition (including Sixteen Tons by Eric Zimmerman)
• 3 pre-festival games (including Journey to the End of the Night, Jericho, and Undercover Assassins)