[arg_discuss] Question Regarding ARGs

[Andrea Phillips]

Well, there was Perplex City...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplex_city

Perplex City made fairly spare use of MySpace and Twitter, and no
Facebook at all, as I recall. I'm not sure what you mean by a "full
top-down structure," but most of its narrative happened on an in-game
newspaper site, a few character blogs, and websites for various city
institutions, along with the real-world treasure hunt and other live
events. It was designed from the very beginning as an ARG, and wasn't
promoting anything else; it was a stand-alone entertainment product.

Edoc Laundry and World Without Oil might also fit these criteria of
yours, but I'm afraid I can't quite pin down what those are. Can you
be a little more specific?

(And I'm sure others will soon chime in with their own examples... :)

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:43 PM, mez breeze <netwurker at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,

>

> I've had a query at augmentology.com from Jeremy Turner that reads thusly:

>

> "I thought I would quickly ask any of the Aug-readers if there is an example

> of an Alternate Reality game that is not based on emergent narratives

> derived from social networking sites (Facebook/Twitter) but actually is one

> that has a full top-down structure and is not based on any video game?

>

> The only ARGs I have heard of so far are used as either promotional material

> for a pre-existing video game or music album or were not initially

> constructed as an ARG such as those emergent narrative tweet-a-thons."

>

> If anyone can provide an answer via comments please do:

>

> http://arsvirtuafoundation.org/research/2008/05/23/identity-ecologies-avatar-formations/#comments

> Also, I'm not sure if you missed my offer to contribute to ARGology's

> definitions?

>

> Chunks,

> Mez Breeze

>

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