[arg_discuss] ARGs make it to University Exams

[Bryan Alexander]

Very cool.
I'm looking forward to years from now, waiting for the first grad
student to be bored by such a question.  "C'mon, not *another* ARG
question!  We did that ages ago..."

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On Behalf Of Marc Mcginley
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 10:58 AM
To: arg_discuss at igda.org
Subject: [arg_discuss] ARGs make it to University Exams

Hi Guys,

Just thought you might like to know that in the final exam of my 
multimedia degree a question popped up about ARGs. To give a bit of 
background, the module (Emergent Multimedia Technologies) was student 
lead, with each student choosing a topic to give a one off lecture 
about. Some of the more interesting topics were then chosen for the
exam.

I think it's pretty cool that there's been a question on ARGs in a 
University exam, and I guess that my lecturer liked my presentation ;)

In case you're interested, here's the question. Please bear in mind that

the module's very broad so whilst it seems like an easy question for the

ARG crowd, the majority of the people on my course hadn't heard of
them...


2)

a)Define the term 'Alternate Reality Game', briefly distinguish them 
from more typical console type games. (4 marks)
 
b) Discuss in detail one recent ARG campaign (10 marks)
 
c) Identify what you believe to be particular challenges to the creation

of such games. (6 marks)

Marc
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