Very Local Game Show

I built a game show into a bicycle and used it to teach Pittsburghers about their own city.

Very Local Pittsburgh was a new website/media entity in Pittsburgh, created by Hearst Communication’s digital division. They focus on arts/culture/food and publish an array of articles, videos and neighborhood guides all about the Pittsburgh area. They also put on some very unique local events. They’d quickly been gaining a local following but they were still looking to raise more awareness. With a background in bike-related projects, Very Local’s Lindsay Patross and Stephanie Brea asked if I had any fun bike-related ideas for something they could do at Pittsburgh’s Open Streets event.

I suggested that we create a bicycle-based game show that engaged event attendees with local trivia and games that changed to reflect the different neighborhoods we visited. They were immediately enthusiastic and asked me to sketch up some ideas.

A few weeks later, the amazing folks at Commonwealth Press started building the Very Local Game Show.

By the end of the summer, we had became one of the most popular stops at Open Street’s events. I served as host while filmmaker Alden Roth captured the game show in action: