Wifi Wars is an audience participation gaming event which is currently touring the country, and it was held at the Exeter Phoenix on Thursday 7th July. Rob and I went along…
The event is the brainchild of Rob Sedgebeer and Steve McNeil behind the airing-in-the-near-future TV gaming show “Go 8-bit” (hosted by Dara O’Briain).
To join in, you connect to a wifi network using your mobile phone, and then you visit a web page which then allows you to control aspects of the games (triggered by the presenters). I had a go at a similar thing at the Mozilla Conference last year and it worked pretty well, but this had a lot more polish to it!
The guys bring 4x access points, 2 laptops (for game control, projection, VR demo etc) and everything runs in HTML5 with a NodeJS backend. We had an awesome night of gaming, despite there not being many people attending!
Some pics from the Exeter event:
Tweets:
@switchsystems @WiFiWarsUK @stevemcneil #WiFWars #pissgate haha I thought a proper riot was about to break out. I voted "yes"!
— Richard Burns (@RichOfTheBurns) July 7, 2016
.@switchsystems @WiFiWarsUK @stevemcneil THE QUIZZARDS WERE ROBBED #WeAreThe48
— Stu ¯_(ツ)_/¯ (@StuAA) July 7, 2016
Live action nerf gun Duck Hunt backup game @WiFiWarsUK tonight.
Great show – awesome fun. 🙂
Go Porcupines! Wahoo! pic.twitter.com/i4kEApGR6D— Andy Wood (@andywoodme) July 7, 2016
awesome @WiFiWarsUK show tonight, great fun #KingRob pic.twitter.com/iV6GTPenis
— Rob J Glover (@robjglover) July 7, 2016
@StuAA @switchsystems @WiFiWarsUK @stevemcneil THE BREXIT SCORES ????
— WΔLRUS (@Tusk_The_Walrus) July 7, 2016
Woo hoo, I won WiFiWars. Officially best gamer in Devon. Maybe. https://t.co/EsX6XEO7Ca
— Richard Burns (@RichOfTheBurns) July 7, 2016
