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I found out about a Glasgow from a post on the Inverness subreddit
Knock yerself out (if you haven't found them yet):
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/169251/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/353455/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/163679/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/287999/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/202063/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/191089/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/185711/Most of these are fairly inactive. London and Brighton are the busiest.
... and some jokey threads:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/199983/
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/239333/I loved the second one and wish it was still going. :)
Oliver Schick-
Thanks for this!
I have been spending all morning reading and sending messages to my friends about these games!
We have some good ideas for non-geo specific games and for minigames. We've brainstormed some ways to allow "retagging" and to be able to set a "theme" for a given period of time.
Y'all are inspiring!
BikeTagOrg
Hey, sorry, just woke up!
Our tracking of the history puts the origin of the game back to 2007 from a post on a motorcycle forum in Minneapolis: http://www.mnsportbikeriders.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14572, as far as a "Bicycle Tag" game goes, but we have been able to track some photo tag games going farther back. So you're totally right @KT_Bee, known origins are motorbike forums.
As @Velocio said, the origins of photo tag games goes much farther back with Motorcycles. We have been working on a comprehensive history of the BikeTag game. If anyone wants to help out with that I would love to chat more!
The games on Reddit started, as we mention in our small "about" on the site, in Austin, Texas and spread from there to Chicago, LA, and more. There are now almost 30 games played across Reddit, most of which users manually upload their images to imgur and some of which have a template for users to fill out when creating those posts.
We, my friend Evan and I, created BikeTag.Org as a tool to aid in playing the game that doesn't require an account to play. Anyone can play! Evan was the one who introduced me to the game back in 2018 and I've been developing this app as a labor of love ever since. The posted images to BikeTag.Org are then synced to Reddit (manually at the moment) where discussions around the tags happen. We launched in Portland and we now support 9 different games across the world (including Vienna, Austria!)
Now, during the pandemic, we're seeing a lot of people using BikeTag as a way to get out of the house and to socially interact with others without actually being physically around others. A lot of new games have started this year, in: Seattle, Austria, Eugene, Miami, and more.
I found out about a Glasgow from a post on the Inverness subreddit, where they mentioned a Glasgow game. I tend to get excited when I discover new games so I created glasgow.biketag.org and inverness.biketag.org really quickly, then I discovered these forums! So yeah, that's a little more background but I'm stoked to talk to y'all more~!