Firing an arrow around the world
This Saturday (October 17) is Robin Hood Day. I’m assuming it’s a day where everyone is more than welcome to run around wearing green tights and steal everything from everyone, but at the National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham they’re taking it a little bit more seriously.
The NVA is known for doing kind of weird things, as I found out when I went to visit a couple of months ago: they had the whole Natural Election thing for the UK General Election, and for Robin Hood day they’re firing a giant arrow around the world.
Powered by #RobinHoodDay and developed by Hitpoint Games, the more tweets it gets the further the arrow (virtual of course, because property damage and stuff) will fly. Get enough tweets in a certain amount of time, and it’ll whizz all the way around the entire planet. They’re also streaming the event on their own website from 12 PM if you’re curious to see whether enough people are passionate about Robin Hood to tweet about it.
Do I think it’ll succeed? It would be nice, but I have no idea. Robin Hood Day isn’t as big of an event as the General Election so anything could happen. Do I have that whistling intro from the Disney version now stuck in my head? Oh yes, yes I do. And now you do too.
This Saturday (October 17) is Robin Hood Day. I’m assuming it’s a day where everyone is more than welcome to run around wearing green tights and steal everything from everyone, but at the National Videogame Arcade in Nottingham they’re taking it a little bit more seriously.
The NVA is known for doing kind of weird things, as I found out when I went to visit a couple of months ago. They had the whole Natural Election thing for the UK General Election, and for Robin Hood day they’re firing a giant arrow around the world.
Powered by #RobinHoodDay, the more tweets it gets the further the arrow will fly. They’re also streaming the event on their own website from 12 PM if you’re curious to see whether enough people are passionate about Robin Hood to tweet about it.
Do I think it’ll succeed? It would be nice, I have no idea, Robin Hood Day isn’t as big of an event as the General Election so anything could happen. Do I have that whistling intro from the Disney version now stuck in my head? Oh hell yes, yes I do. And now you do too.
