[arg_discuss] Book Chapter: Writing for ARGs

[despain at quantumcontent.com]

You're not the only one to bring this issue up. And while I completely
agree with you, I think people learn best from concrete examples. I
can tell them till I'm blue in the face, "give your players something
to do!" but still many writers (and designers) won't get it.

Do you have any examples you can think of - from your own work or
others - that are excellent cases of putting this into practice?

Wendy Despain
quantumcontent.com


On Fri, October 5, 2007 6:14 am, Andrea Phillips wrote:

> Might I just suggest a mention that plotting needs to be done with an

> eye toward inviting interaction, rather than straight exposition? It's

> a sort of meta game design issue, but I find in an ARG the writing and

> the game design aren't neatly divisible the way they can be in, say,

> an MMO...

>

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