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Totally. We played Assassin with platic-disc guns (which I can't find on Amazon) in high school. The school came down on us pretty hard if we were caught play

Totally. We played Assassin with platic-disc guns (which I can't find on Amazon) in high school. The school came down on us pretty hard if we were caught playing, so it was doubly stressful avoiding getting whacked by friends and avoiding being caught by faculty. We also had an entrance fee of $5, so the winner took home $100-$200 for surviving. I never survived. In general, though, the idea of adding a little game to anything is pretty nice. You can imagine playing tag at CES or assassin at PyCon. Hell, it's be great if the organizers added/encouraged/managed it!

erock 14y ago
wow, that brought back some memories, it's all fun and games, until someone puts a penny in their gun. Anyway they were called tracer guns, and it doesn't look like they are made any more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun
- CoffeeDregs 14y ago
  >it's all fun and games, until someone puts a penny in their gun. Ha. Memories indeed. Ow. ;) Thanks for tracking down info on tracer guns. You can still purchase them but they're collectibles: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Vintage-Rayline-Tracer-Toy-Guns-lot-Star-Trek-BLUE-/321064814870 http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Vintage-Rayline-Tracer-Toy-Guns-lo...
- piotrj 14y ago
  How about NERF guns? http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/en_US/vortex.cfm http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/en_US/vortex.cfm Those vortex type ones have disc ammo. You can buy them on Amazon.
  - andrewflnr 14y ago
    I'd rather do it with a jolt pistol. The discs have a long range, but they're terribly inaccurate and slow. The single dart fired by a dart is slow to reload, but fairly accurate and fast, perfect for assassinations.
rachelmaesmith 14y ago
I fully support playing tag/assassin at PyCon!
- lisper 14y ago
  You really don't want to do that. It would be hugely disruptive, and it's not what PyCon is supposed to be about.
  - jwmoz 14y ago
    Jobsworth.
  - dlgeek 14y ago
    Debian runs an Assassins game at their annual conference (DebConf) - usually goes over pretty well.
- hoka 14y ago
  Hi! I'm developing a smartphone version of Assassins; I have some screenshots up at http://hoka.imgur.com/ http://hoka.imgur.com/ The server code is written in Python and hosted by heroku! If anyone's interested in helping out or testing the game, shoot me a PM.

erock 14y ago

wow, that brought back some memories, it's all fun and games, until someone puts a penny in their gun. Anyway they were called tracer guns, and it doesn't look like they are made any more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_gun

CoffeeDregs 14y ago
>it's all fun and games, until someone puts a penny in their gun. Ha. Memories indeed. Ow. ;) Thanks for tracking down info on tracer guns. You can still purchase them but they're collectibles: http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Vintage-Rayline-Tracer-Toy-Guns-lot-Star-Trek-BLUE-/321064814870 http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Vintage-Rayline-Tracer-Toy-Guns-lo...
piotrj 14y ago
How about NERF guns? http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/en_US/vortex.cfm http://www.hasbro.com/nerf/en_US/vortex.cfm Those vortex type ones have disc ammo. You can buy them on Amazon.
- andrewflnr 14y ago
  I'd rather do it with a jolt pistol. The discs have a long range, but they're terribly inaccurate and slow. The single dart fired by a dart is slow to reload, but fairly accurate and fast, perfect for assassinations.

rachelmaesmith 14y ago

I fully support playing tag/assassin at PyCon!

lisper 14y ago
You really don't want to do that. It would be hugely disruptive, and it's not what PyCon is supposed to be about.
- jwmoz 14y ago
  Jobsworth.
- dlgeek 14y ago
  Debian runs an Assassins game at their annual conference (DebConf) - usually goes over pretty well.
hoka 14y ago
Hi! I'm developing a smartphone version of Assassins; I have some screenshots up at http://hoka.imgur.com/ http://hoka.imgur.com/ The server code is written in Python and hosted by heroku! If anyone's interested in helping out or testing the game, shoot me a PM.