![Alternate Reality Games Tim Waters [email_address] Labyrinths?](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/arg-1213829976188609-9/85/alternate-reality-games-at-geekup-leeds-june-2008-1-320.jpg)
Recommended
Recommended
More Related Content
What's hot
What's hot (19)
Similar to Alternate Reality Games at Geekup Leeds, June 2008
Similar to Alternate Reality Games at Geekup Leeds, June 2008 (20)
More from chippy
More from chippy (20)
Recently uploaded
Recently uploaded (20)
Alternate Reality Games at Geekup Leeds, June 2008
- 1. Alternate Reality Games Tim Waters [email_address] Labyrinths?
- 2. “ Platformless gaming” “ takes your life and converts it to entertainment space” “ you play it as yourself” "Collaborative storytelling process” “ Massively-scaled collaboration, it can't be solved alone” "Characters believe that they are real" “ Have you see the film “Game” starring Michael Douglas?” What is an ARG?
- 3. Narrative Intense player involvement Real-time Evolves according to players Characters actively controlled by PMs Players interact directly with characters, solve stuff, and often work as a community. Multimedia: TV, billboards, twitter, plane banners, telephones, email and mail and websites etc etc. What is an ARG?
- 4. but its not really Trad Viral Marketing A Hoax A Stand Alone “Experience” Easy to do!
- 5. Cross Media video telephone radio newspaper websites twitter poster campaigns Plane banners Goes both ways! (very web2.0) Post IRC IM
- 6. Puzzles Riddles Challenges Missions Events Gameplay
- 7. commercial grass roots promotional free Many different Rabbit Hole / Trailhead
- 9. AI The Beast
- 11. Players FAIL!
- 12. Perplexcity
- 13. Manchester Live multiplayer text adventure game
- 14. Perplexcity
- 15. The Lost Ring
- 16. The Lost Ring
- 17. TINAG this is not a game players: “keep it real” designers: “everything works like reality” The Curtain
- 18. Serious Business! world without oil International cooperation educational corporate team building
- 19. adhoc designed to work in group shared experience male & female social Hardcore minority Casual majority Community
- 20. Alternate Reality Gaming Play the Lost Sport! Draw labyrinth Blindfold someone. This is “the runner”. Put the runner at the center of a labyrinth. Make the runner escape! The walls of the labyrinth are made up of teammates. The walls hum to guide the runner.