Adventures on the Streets of Newcastle

One of the best parts about The Go Game is getting the opportunity to produce events in random places all over the world. Chris and I have ventured, suitcases stuffed with wedding dresses and fake moustaches and oversized trophies in each hand, from Japan to Puerto Rico to Cancun to the most exotic destination of them all: Altus, Oklahoma.

Our most recent destination: the lovely city of Newcastle upon Tyne! Our mission: drink a brewery worth of Newcastle Brown Ale wearing these sweet unofficial Newcastle-themed Nike Dunks.




Ha. I wish. However, we did get to do the next best thing, which was design a fun training game for a really cool and innovative company and tour the lovely city of Newcastle in our bit of free time. Here's what Newcastle (right bank) and Gateshead (left bank) and the River Tyne look like from on high.


This impressive view of the Tyne Bridge and the structurally stunning Millenium Bridge comes from the Viewing Box of the BALTIC Contemporary Arts Centre.

Before our impromptu city exploration, Chris and I put together a sales training game that somehow incorporated ninjas, alien strobe blasters, and dinosaur robots into various selling exercises. None of your boring Death By PowerPoint sales training snoozefests going on here.

One of our favourite missions involved teams heading out to the streets of Newcastle city centre to interact with the public. Our client had asked us to design an exercise to explore work they do with organising Street Teams, so we had them create quirky little gifts from assorted bits and bobs and trade them to passersby they encountered on their quest. The teams came back with lots of random items, stories, photos, and smiles after spreading some Street Team love around Newcastle. They even got hugs from total strangers!

Awwww. The Go Game: Inspiring Hugs from Newcastle upon Tyne to Altus, Oklahoma.

Our energetic players were competitive, creative, clever, and up for everything we threw at them. Although only one team could take home the ultimate winning prize, they were all total rock stars. Seriously. See for yourself.

Chris and I had a fab time designing this game and getting lost in the winding streets of Newcastle upon Tyne. Give us a call anytime and we'll come to your city to spread some hugs AND defend you from aliens.

See you around!