The New Road

The Go Game

On a lighter note, yesterday was our company's Christmas party. Instead of doing the usual big dinner out we were treated to "The Go Game". The company, which is still small, was divided up into three teams and sent out in a scavenger hunt through the Mission district of San Francisco. The missions ranged from finding things and reporting back information about them via a cell phone. To creating movies on the fly using available props from around the neighborhood. To finding out secret password by interacting with the locals.

It was a hell of a lot of fun and I really got to know, and like, the two guys I was playing with. At the end all three teams met up and we were shown the movies each team came up with. The hilight of the evening was the comparisons of the three teams doing a 'historical ballet' where you had to recreate a historical event using a video with no sound and do it dancing. The first team did Apollo 13, the second team did something that I'm spacing on at the moment, and my team did 'The Passion'. Josh, a Jew, played Jesus and I played a roman soldier. Explaining it here would do it little justice. The video will be posted on their site in a few days and I'll make a copy and post it up here.

I strongly recommend "The Go Game" for small groups of folks who want to have a really good time.