Shoot Me if You Can

Seoul-based performance artist Taeyoon Choi came up with a great idea: a live “first-person shooter” game played with cell phones. The rules are simple; each team member has a distinguishing color and number prominently displayed (just like marathon runners), and all you have to do to score is take a cell phone photo of someone on the opposing team. The photos are uploaded via MMS to a central site (Flickr is an obvious choice) to register the score.

Sure, it’s a game, but Shoot Me If You Can is also something deeper. Taeyoon Choi may be calling attention to cell phone ubiquity, cell phone photography as everyday tourism, violence as entertainment, social networking, surveillance society, and the (now definitely post-peak) flash mob trend. One can see it as a game, as a social experiment, or as a large-scale unscripted performance work.

However, once the imagination begins to work, all sorts of other possibilities make themselves apparent. Our own focus is online gambling, and there is a wealth of untapped potential in the crossover between casino gaming and online gambling. If you play online blackjack, imagine the social, commercial, or possibly even artistic potential. And so on; online bingo is immediately fast-paced and social by nature, and the fan factor of online sports betting makes it a natural for ‘real-world’ social crossovers.

What, you don’t really know enough about these online gaming genres? Well, you’re in the right place. I’ll give you a quick introduction to each on the next few pages. Oh, and before we continue: the current owners of the site are NOT affiliated with the original author of the Shoot Me If You Can website (we just own the domain right now), and we really have no idea how to contact him/her.

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