I don't think I should be allowed to play with computers when I'm sick.
Meanwhile, the ARG I was posting about the other day has blossomed nicely and I've gotten my first-ever email from a character. I feel special!
And hurty. Goddamn it, me, recover already!
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What on earth is an ARG? I was trying to look at it but I don't get it.
ReplyDeleteThink of an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) as an interactive fiction scavenger hunt, with puzzles to solve and various clues scattered across the net/over the phone/in real life, and the more puzzles you solve, the more information is revealed. Whole communities pool their efforts and share the results, which means millions of players can all work together to unlock the full story.
ReplyDeleteI think it got the name ARG because usually the premise of the game is that someone in a fictional universe is communicating with the real world.
The really big ones are almost always marketing for movies, games or other products, but since it's hours of free entertainment with no obnoxious pitch, nobody really cares who pays for it, and often the game will give extra info or backstory that the related game or movie or whatever doesn't contain.