[arg_discuss] Question Regarding ARGs

[Brian Clark]

>"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?


I'm not sure I completely understand your distinction, but I think most of
our work falls into that category (it was neither derived from social
networking sites or based upon an existing video game). So depending how you
choose to define "ARG" that means you could throw in "Legend of the Sacred
Urns," "The Art of the Heist," "Who is Benjamin Stove?," and "Eldritch
Errors" (and if you have a looser definition of ARG like myself, you could
at least add in "Nothing So Strange" and "Freakylinks".)

The only one that maybe DOESN'T fall into that would be "Beta-7" (but even
then, the story of the game has very little to do with the sports game it
helped promote and was not "set in the universe" of ESPN NFL Football.)


Brian