• Crowd shot of starting line.
    Crowds mingle at the starting line
  • Crowd shot of starting line.
    More than six-hundred players joined in the unsponsored, volunteer-run, urban exploration streetgame.
  • A man in drag signs players' manifests.
    Signing Manifests at Checkpoint 1 in South Park Photo by Keith Silva
  • Players wait to have their manifests signed.
    Runners wore yellow ribbons, chasers wore orange ribbons Photo by Keith Silva
  • Skeleton hands at a typewriter.
    An Agent prepares Checkpoint 2 in SOMA
  • Players typing.
    Exquisite Corpse Typing at Checkpoint 2
  • Two players high five outside the parking garage.
    Happy to be alive at Checkpoint 3, a parking garage near the Tenderloin Photo by edrabbit
  • Agents separately interview two players.
    Prisoners with a dilemma Photo by edrabbit
  • An early arrival to Checkpoint 4 at Lennon Rehearsal Studios Photo by 0x0000org
  • Lost among the balloons and fog Photo by sivart13
  • Players were asked to solve a game of Clue at Checkpoint 5 in Hayes Valley
  • Col. Mustard and Miss Scarlet share a laugh at Checkpoint 5 Photo by 0x0000org
  • Up the rabbit hole at Checkpoint 6 in the Lower Haight Photo by 0x0000org
  • Tea with the Queen at Checkpoint 6 Photo by 0x0000org
  • Swapping stories at the Finish Line Photo by everfalling
  • A surprise visit from The Star Wars cantina band! Photo by everfalling

  • More than 600 players came to rush through the darkened streets of San Francisco on Halloween, seeking checkpoints, fleeing chasers, and pursuing foes. This Journey to the End of the Night was organized by Antiboredom in collaboration with Jackie Hasa. Updates about future street games we do will be posted on SFZero, and to our new mailing list.

    "Best. Halloween. Ever." - g0rpleb0t

    "...the whole night was a blurred stuttering experience of flashes and long spooling scenes. The city is smaller than I had perceived before, and so full of art." - ombwah

    "one of the most memorable experiences of my life" - sivart13

    "SF0 just took my favorite holiday and made it even better." - jujuwiz

    "We talked for a while about the anxious anticipation that we had felt back at the Ferry Building, the routes that we had taken to the first checkpoint, how the journey changed your perspective of places that you had seen a dozen times before, how the journey made you find and explore places that you had never seen before, how it made you spot details around you that would otherwise go unnoticed, and how the journey was a little bit like making love: physical, but the best part happened in your head." - uglyigloo

    Check out these and other players' experiences at SFZero.org

    A huge thanks to: Noisebridge and Rubin Starset, Laura Balch, Orion Kellogg, Liz Dietrich, Thomas Lotze, Alanna Simone, Sara Thacher and Uriah Findley of Nonchalance, Shalaco Sching, David Fine, Lowteck, Brendan Long, Devin Sandoz, Michael Lavigne, Gayle Geary, Dany Garcia, Ed Hunsinger, Chloe Carter, Dormain Geyer, Anthony Drewitz, Adam Cole, Jane McGonigal, Sarah Pauly, Dax Tran-Caffee, Becki Sanders, Erin Fitzgerald, Joey Hipolito, Yoshi Salaverry, Lennon Rehearsal Studios, and everyone else who has helped to make it happen. Journey to the End of the Night has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution / Non-Commercial license. For info about previous Journies, and to learn how you can organize it in your city, see ichaseyou.com