When you get an opportunity to build something awesome, you should. One such opportunity arose recently when a few members of our creative team decided to host an office wide after-work nerf battle and party.

Our office was *really* excited about this and may have gone a *bit* overboard…

Around the same time a client was asking us for examples of our usage of RFID and NFC technology at events. We’ve used the tech before at a few events, but nothing home brewed or terribly unique. The digital team here prides itself on doing what’s weird and awesome (take a gander at what we did on a short timeline for our 8-bit themed party) so we jumped at the chance to build an RFID-powered king of the hill game for our nerf war.

My surface acting as a then inactive capture point.

The idea was simple enough. In a ten minute game, four capture points would exist throughout the building. Only one point would be “active” at a time. Each capture point had an RFID reader on it. A team could capture an active point and, for every 5 seconds of point control, earn their team a point. Every minute the point would move to another random control point in the office.