Alternate Reality Games

A talk discussing how alternate reality games are being used for entertainment, education, and problem solving..

Transcript

1. ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES
2. 10 / 1 / 2008 strange messages S.F.
3. Slight Nudges Now Offered. Solely for the Discerning Dilettante. Be Aware – it could be in the wrong direction. : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : Is the Jejune Institute still spreading false nonchalance? Or have they mended their ways? We need you to find out. : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : / // / // Next steps // / // / / : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : dial: 415.325.4014 : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : visit: The Jejune Institute 580 California Street, Suite 1607 San Francisco, CA. Tuesday through Saturday Noon to 5:30pm
4. Slight Nudges Now Offered. Solely for the Discerning Dilettante. Be Aware – it could be in the wrong direction. : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : Is the Jejune Institute still spreading false nonchalance? Or have they mended their ways? We need you to find out. : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : / // / // Next steps // / // / / : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : dial: 415.325.4014 : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : visit: The Jejune Institute 580 California Street, Suite 1607 San Francisco, CA. Tuesday through Saturday Noon to 5:30pm
12. THE JEJUNE INSTITUTE
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14. an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions. - Storyline - Affective - Fictional
15. an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions. - Blurry boundaries - Familiar tools - “This is not a game”
16. an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions. - Beginning / End - Challenges - Rewards - Winners
17. an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions. - Collaborative - “Puppeteered” - Organic
18. an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions. ARG
19. EXAMPLES
20. YEAR 0 Experience the storyline of a newly released album
21. Speculate about life & events after a global oil crisis
22. DARPA NETWORK CHALLENGE Research the efficacy of using social networks for mass-mobilization
23. How hard is it to vanish in the digital age?
24. OTHER EXAMPLES
25. Conspiracy for Good Nokia Participative storytelling about environmental concerns The Mystery Guest Carroll County, MD Libraries Augment a youth summer reading program Smokescreen Channel 4 / UK Educate youth about online privacy Our Water Planet Aguatero Industries Educate people about scarcity of clean water
26. CAN WE ADOPT THESE CONCEPTS?
27. Learning through soap operas, whodunnits and other storytelling genres
28. Geocaches CORNER THE PUMA (a 5k chase) Tweets Checkins Run logs
29. Weave a story arc into the readers’ comments
30. QUESTIONS or THOUGHTS?
31. THANKS
32. SEE argn.com unfiction.com despoiler.org wiki: alternate reality game