Tag Games

Tag Games Ltd. is an independent, leading video game developer and publisher based in Dundee, Scotland. Established in 2006, it is focused on creating games for mobile, handheld and social gaming platforms. It was one of the first European studios to develop titles for the iPhone. Beyond developing games for a variety of mobile formats (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, etc.), Tag Games has launched applications for hand-held gaming platforms such as the PlayStation Portable (PSP) and Nintendo DS.

In June 2011 the studio launched its self-publishing brand Tagplay and released its first social mobile game, Funpark Friends, under the brand in October of the same year. Funpark Friends has gone on to receive critical acclaim from the video games industry, being nominated for IMGA, Bafta and Herald Scotland mobile games awards, winning the Herald Scotland best Scottish Mobile Game 2011. The studio is currently working on its next eagerly anticipated release, Car Jack Streets 2.

Tag (game)

Tag (also known as it, tip you're it or tig [in regions of Britain], and many other names) is a playground game that involves one or more players chasing other players in an attempt to "tag" or touch them, usually with their hands. There are many variations; most forms have no teams, scores, or equipment. Usually when a person is tagged, the tagger says, "Tag, you're it".

Basic rules

A group of players (two or more) decide who is going to be "it", often using a counting-out game such as eeny, meeny, miny, moe. The player selected to be "it" then chases the others, attempting to get close enough to "tag" one of them (touching them with a hand) while the others try to escape. A tag makes the tagged player "it" - in some variations, the previous "it" is no longer "it" and the game can continue indefinitely while in others, both players remain "it" and the game ends when all players have become "it".

There are many variants which modify the rules for team play, or place restrictions on tagged players' behavior. A simple variation makes tag an elimination game, so those tagged drop out of play. Some variants have a rule preventing a player from tagging the person who has just tagged them (known as "no tags-back", "no returns", or "can't tag your master").