A circle is closing.

A friend
or ‘griend’ as I like to say, whom I’ve never met but we are connected at the heart virtually in Second Life, mentioned Urgent Evoke, a new game that she was playing.  So I signed up.

Little did I know
it would be the same as the one my griend and I were playing in that we do serious work, make meaningful connections and have fun along the way.

That led me
here to Gameful where again, it’s the same for me.  Playing a meaningful and fun game while connecting with like-minded people.

So today
I found out my team entry for the Gameful Urgent Evoke Monsters (GUEM) team was accepted and now a bunch of us will be roaring over at Evoke.

and
on Saturday March 26 at 06:00 AM Pacific Time I’ll be dancing up a storm in Second Life with the Hug Ur Gameful Monsters (HUGM) group to celebrate.  Join us for a group hug, details in the group posts.

Join Me Join Us
at the Gameful Urgent Evoke Monsters group I promise we’ll have fun while learning how to be social innovators, or pass this on to anyone looking for something to do.  Add the name you want to use for Urgent Evoke userid in a reply to the blog post here http://gameful.org/groups/urgent-evoke-monsters/forum/topic/oh-yeahhhh-weve-been-accepted-as-a-team-need-your-names-by-march25-pls/

The network
is alive
and
this
is
no
game.
Join Me Join Us

That’s why
it feels like a circle is closing and yet my world continues to expand.  Thank you to all my griends wherever you are in the world I hope you are as happy as a lark as I am.

~*

The Game:  May Day Giveaway

Objective:  giveaway as many flowers as you can in one hour

The rules:

1. procure some flowers
2. arrive at a public well-trafficked place by official starting time
3. official start and end will be announced on the twitter feed of @LiamPBoyle
4. you have one hour to give away as many flowers as you can to random passers-by
5. report your total to the group “May Day Giveaway” at gameful.org

Winner receives 2000 monster points from me.

Ok, why the heck am I suggesting this?  Well many eons ago in a strange time known as the late 1980′s, I found myself alone and dateless on a Valentine’s day.  Rather than try to pick someone up, I went out and procured a dozen carnation flowers.  I then went to a local shopping mall and began handing the flowers out randomly to people.  To this day I remember the smiles doing this put on peoples faces, and it began to become a yearly tradition with me for some time until a few years later and someone actually took offense to being handed a free flower and told to “have a great day.”  So yes, a player might actually get into a little trouble with this one, but it’s a low probability of that.

The idea is to wish people well and give them a flower.  The flower must pass directly from your hand to the person’s hand, and you need to wish them well with some form of greeting.  To accomplish this task you need to make yourself appear fairly non-threatening.  But if the guy with long-hair, tattoos, who dresses in predominantly black and camouflage can do it, so can others. 

Advice, wear lighter colored clothing psychologically lighter colors appear less intimidating than darker ones.  Do not approach a child unless you approach the parents first.  If you approach a couple offer the flowers to both so your not seen as trying to steal someone’s significant other.  As a matter of fact, trying to use this game to “pick someone up” is a disqualification.  That’s all I can really think of right now.

I wish I had a better prize to offer the winner than some virtual monster karma, but this is a pretty self-rewarding activity.  Just get out there to spread some smiles and flowers.