[arg_discuss] congrats Campfire!

Adrien Marie adrijackmarie at gmail.com
Thu Aug 14 15:34:38 EDT 2008


just to be perfectly sure:
what time for the Irc (london zone) ?

2008/8/14 Mike Monello <mmonello at campfirenyc.com>


> Thanks, Christy. It's been an interesting project, to say the least, and we

> learned a lot from it. I hope to be on the IRC chat Sunday and maybe I can

> share some of that.

>

> Most fascinating, to me, has been the reaction of the hardcore ARG

> community to something that looked like an ARG but lacked many "core"

> aspects of one. For example, TB asked the audience to do more role play and

> social engineering rather than puzzle solving. While those who have played

> previous ARGs seemed to hate it, people new to this kind of experience took

> to it like wildfire -- the community was extremely active and it pushed into

> the "mainstream" in ways that our previous more traditional ARG-like

> projects did not.

>

> Anyhow, I'll try and make the chat on Sunday, I'd love to have some god

> discussion on everything that's been flying around the list the past month!

>

> Best,

>

> Mike

>

> On 8/11/08 11:54 PM, "Christy Dena" <cdena at cross-mediaentertainment.com>

> wrote:

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>

>

> "Expanding the universe of an existing property, whether a film or TV show,

> further through deeper stories involving marginal characters is not a new

> type of storytelling, witness the cottage industry of Star Wars and Star

> Trek literature. But True Blood's is an exceptional case in that the

> peripheral mythology has been written by an agency. The success of

> Campfire's latest creation is obviously based on the storytelling prowess

> of

> Cain and Hale, along with the agency's respect for the overall artistic

> integrity of the show."

>

>

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