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The Beast 2001, A.I. Movie poster:
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What is an ARG? An immersive storytelling experience Multimedia: Blogs, youtube, forums, phone calls, text messages, audio, GPS, IM, games-within-games, puzzles, discussions, twitter, facebook, apps, collaboration, meetups, text, secret ops… The real world is the publishing medium Collaborative “No one knows everything, everyone knows something, all knowledge resides in humanity” Pierre Levy, Collective Intelligence
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Why this kind of game? “All my game career I’ve been looking for ways to make game stories more immersive, and a key way to do this is to reduce the number or the height of the leaps of abstraction between the player and the story. By leaps of abstraction I mean “things you have to do different because it’s a game.” Using a controller is an abstractive leap, using button combos is another, and so on. Each leap makes the game less immersive and leaves potential players behind as a result. So when I came to Alternate Reality Games in late 2004, it was like coming home. There’s no controller, no avatar, nothing between you and the game. So I just knew I had to start working in that area.” -Ken Eklund
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Example: I Love Bees 2004, promoted Halo 2
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Example: The Dark Knight 2008, http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/02/26/vir al-recap-the-dark-knights-why-so-serious- campaign/ http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/02/26/vir al-recap-the-dark-knights-why-so-serious- campaign/
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Vocabulary “Rabbit Hole”: The method of an ARG’s launch “Puppet Master” (PM): A person running an ARG “This is not a game”: Many ARGs don’t explicitly admit they are games.
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Tiers of play Source: http://42entertainment.com/see.htmlhttp://42entertainment.com/see.html
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Real-world crossover
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Anatomy of a puzzle Mysterious audio file:
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One spectrograph later…
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Anatomy of a live event
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Synchronous vs. Asychronous Players can come together Players can collaborate apart OR
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‘Viral’ vs. ‘Experience’ vs. ‘Game’ Same tools used in all three ‘Viral’ is often a one-time event or production ‘Experience’ is a trail of puzzles & interactions, linear, repeatable ‘Game’ is more collaborative, longer term
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Why participate? Swag! Recognition Immersion ‘Wow’ factor Interesting stories
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Community
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ARGfest: http://2011.argfestocon.com/http://2011.argfestocon.com/
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Serious Game: Year Zero 2007, Nine Inch Nails Civil Resistance
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Serious Game: World Without Oil 2007, non-promotional http://worldwithoutoil.org/ Asychronous, collaborative, explicitly educational Worked on a limited budget Lesson plans: http://worldwithoutoil.org/metateachers.htm http://worldwithoutoil.org/metateachers.htm
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Serious game: Skeleton Chase IU Bloomington, Fall 2008 Structured around physical fitness
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Serious Game: Ghosts of a Chance Smithsonian, 2008 www.GhostsofaChance.com Final report: http://ghostsofachance.com/GhostsofaChan ce_Report2.pdf
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Serious Game: Should Brandon and Nicole get Engaged? UNC, 2010 moviestar2b.blogspot.com/ http://www.youtube.com /user/ShBANGE http://www.youtube.com /user/ShBANGE More info: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1878335.1878376&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15009796&C FTOKEN=80479239 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1878335.1878376&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=15009796&C FTOKEN=80479239
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Serious Game: Urgent Evoke Online, 2010 http://www.urgentevoke.com Repeatable! Story?
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Experience Vs. Story
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Tangential Learning Expose a player to new ideas and potential for learning, without forcing it on them (source: http://www.edge-online.com/blogs/the-power-tangential-learning )http://www.edge-online.com/blogs/the-power-tangential-learning ARGs can take it even further: learn new skills along the way
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So you want to play an ARG… Brief Experience: www.Love-Resurrected.com www.Love-Resurrected.com Community: Unforums: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/ www.ARGN.com www.ARGN.com
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So you want to make an ARG... Allow far more time than you think Complete everything in advance Target a core audience to start Structure around the tiers of play Story is key Monitor your community of players
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