As social commentators and sometime gamers, we saw an opportunity to utilise crowd sourcing to produce a stunt for the launch of Electronic Art’s game, The Sims 3. The idea was to produce foil helium balloons, printed and shaped like the icons that float above the avatars’ heads in the game. Our crowd would have these tied on thin twine or fishing line and clipped to the backs of their collars, creating real world Sims.
To support this, these balloons would be given away at the game’s launch and participants in the event would wear The Sims 3 t-shirts.