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| Watch the Cruel 2 B Kind Video. Learn how to become a benevolent assassin -- and watch a 200-player game unfold on the streets of San Francisco |
Cruel 2 B Kind is a game of benevolent assassination.
When the game begins, players are assigned three secret weapons. Your weapons may be serenades, compliments, or friendly greetings. Bystanders will see them as nothing more than random acts of kindness. Other players will recognize them as deadly acts.
Your targets are unknown to you. Players have no uniform, know the terrain as well as you do, and can blend in seamlessly. The only way to tell a bystander from another player is by bringing your kindness to bear against them. An innocent will be charmed; an assassin, slain.
And remember, that while you seek out other assassins, they are seeking you out, as well. You never know when you'll face the smile that has your name on it.
When a player is killed, they join forces with their killer, and help in the search for surviving players. By the end of the hunt, all players have united into two superpowers, facing off with Weapons of Mass Decency.
Innocents will be caught in the crossfire. But when the weapons are random acts of kindness, the only collateral damage is a smile.
Cruel 2 B Kind was invented by by Jane McGonigal (Avant Game) and Ian Bogost (Persuasive Games)