Kameoka Mayor Appears Bound in Tape for City Mystery Game
A city government is betting an immersive mystery game, with the sitting mayor bound in the promotional art, will pull visitors through the greenery fair and the city's art and history spots.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Kameoka City launches a free interactive mystery game, 'Kameoka City Mayor Katsuragawa Kidnapping Case,' on September 18, tied to the 43rd National Urban Greenery Fair in Kyoto Tanba. Participants play police officers for one hour, solving puzzles via LINE and smartphones across a course from JR Kameoka Station to Hozugawa Park. The sitting mayor appears bound in the main visual. Nozomi Kubota of Creator's NEXT produces, following his 2024 brainwave art project at Sanga Stadium by KYOCERA.
The game runs through November 8 and costs nothing to play. Players collect a puzzle sheet at the JR Kameoka Station north exit tent, then use LINE on their phones to follow a story that opens with a kidnapping report to police. The production uses a real phone line with a reverse-tracing system, and the plot turns on an AI that runs out of control. The course runs from the station to Hozugawa Park, the fair's main venue, passing Kenji Yanobe's sculpture at the station's south exit, the Mitsuhide Akechi statue, and new sculpture at the north exit. Kubota holds more than 20 AI-related patents and built an earlier AI mystery game in Nishikawa, Yamagata Prefecture.
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