Digital Open Winners: Australian Teen Crafts "Sneaky" Games

Duration: 2 minutes and 25 seconds

Year: 2009

Country: United States

Language: English

License: CC - Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives

Genre: Documentary

Producer: Boing Boing Video

Director: Boing Boing Video

Views: 221 (27 embedded)

Posted by: boingboing on Oct 22, 2009

Meet Digital Open (digitalopen.org) winning teen Harry Lee. This 16 year old from Melbourne explains his "Sneaky Card" game, which explores social interactions between people -- a winning project in the Digital Open, an open tech expo for youth from IFTF, Sun Microsystems, and Boing Boing. More on "Sneaky Card": http://www.digitalopen.org/projects/sneaky-card-and-other-friends The Digital Open competition welcomed entries in 8 categories: Open Code, Community, Discovery, Earth, Entrepreneurs, Gear, Media, and Play. More online: http://www.digitalopen.org

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Just stop and think, "Why are we doing this, what are we doing, and am I happy?"
Boing Boing teamed up with Institute for the Future and Sun Microsystems to create The Digital Open,
an online tech expo for teens 17 and under around the world.
Now meet one of the winners.
My name is Harry Lee, I'm sixteen years old
and I live in Melbourne, Australia.
The winning project's name was Sneaky Card. I created the card
in an effort to create a game which used
social interaction as a platform, rather than, say, amazing graphics, amazing visuals
or really complicated gameplay. So these aren't games played on a platform
like the xbox or computer, these are games you play as you, as a real person.
Those are the games I chose to focus on, because those are the more exciting games in my opinion
they explore social interaction between humans,
which is far more interesting than, I suppose, emulating a battle field.
The game is basically a card, just one card
and it says on it: "Pass this card on to someone else without anyone noticing."
And that's it. And that's why I called it Sneaky Card:
because it involves elements of put-pocketing, which is sort of the opposite of pick-pocketing