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For 3 weeks team SlingShot lived in a caravan in London, snatching nights on the roadside of the City and West End. The game was commissioned by the Soho Theatre to run alongside Shraddha, a love story between a gorgio boy and gypsy girl set against the evictions of gypsies to make way for the 2012 Olympics. The game challenged players to find SlingShot a place to over-night in the caravan. The player to find us a place to pull-in closest to the Soho Theatre won. Players could track the caravan using a Google map on the game website, or get the map on their phones by texting a short code.

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Players made stopping place suggestions via shouts and these were plotted to the map, as were video diaries and interviews with mambers of the production. This created a rich archive that documented the realisation of a key objective of the project: to get people to think, if only for a second, what it might be like to live on the road and how society has virtually outlawed nomadism and gypsy life.

The game was run using the SlingShot Mobile Social Game Engine, which integrates in-game communication with geo-data and social networks. MSGE won a South Wet Media Innovation award in 2010.

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