Omage

Omage is physical game for you smartphone. Make face-pics of your friends without getting Omed yourself!

Installation instructions:
1. Download the game on your Android device
2. Install the .apk file
3. Run the game

How to play:
Step 1: Find friends
Find friends to play this game with. Remember, your favourite player is definitely not camera shy. Set the timer and hit start at the same moment!

Step 2: Hide
When the countdown start, run away! Hide in a tree, or duck behind a bush. Make sure your face cannot be seen by your friends!

Step 3: Capture Faces
Now it’s time to move! Try to capture as many face-pictures of your friends as possible! Ambush them while hiding behind a bush or just run into them, camera shots blazing!

Step 4: Gather around and declare a winner
The player with the most face-pics wins! However, not all pictures are good face-pics. Gather around and discuss which pictures are worth points and declare a winner.
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Game description:
Every year, family Bouwens celebrated Oma’s (Grandmother) birthday. It was a tradition to spend the weekend in a Belgium villa, located near an amazing forest. On Saturday night, the family would head for the forest. Armed with a flashlight, cousins, siblings and other family members would hide between the trees, in bushes and behind trunks. Their aim… flashing their light into an opponents face. If your face was seen by someone else, you lost the game.

As a homage to this ritual, and a testament to Jack’s late grandmother (1926-2016 Januari 30th), we created Omage (a homage to Oma). Like Jack’s family, players are invited to head for the dark forest. Using their phone they will hunt opponents’ faces by capturing them with their camera. Since this game is best played during the night, players have to engage their phone’s flashlight, heightening the tension of see or be seen.

After a 10 minute round, players gather and exchange experiences. They show each other the pictures taken and laugh about the weird photos. Pictures that do not show a face (two eyes, a mouth and a nose) are discarded. The person with the most unique face-pics wins.

This multiplayer game is best played at night in a deep, dark forest.

Ambush friends and take their face!