[arg_discuss] Open Source ARGs

[D B Wall]

In an odd crossing of the streams, I stumbled onto my first piece of open source narrative yesterday.
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/

If you download the text, there's an introduction that includes the author's take on releasing his work under a creative commons license. He's not just giving you his universe to play in. He's giving you his text, to remix, reuse and share. By the way, the work is also available in hardback from a traditional publisher (Tor).

On Wednesday, July 30, 2008, at 01:41PM, "Mike Monello" <mmonello at campfirenyc.com> wrote:

>The idea of an open source narrative is interesting, but I imagine it would make the "game" aspect extremely difficult to maintain.

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>Eric Martin has been developing an interesting narrative project where he maintains ownership over specific characters but has turned over the universe to Creative Commons, allowing other creative people to create derivative works (any format) within the universe.

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>Here's a link to his description of Saijo City:

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>http://infocalypse.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=851933%3ABlogPost%3A921

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>Best,

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>Mike

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