[arg_discuss] we are obsolete (RE: Copycat warning overalternative reality games)

[Mike Monello]

I think the name should not attempt to describe the experience, but perhaps just a surface description of the canvas.

"Painting" describes the tool used to create it - paint, not the experience of seeing it, the size, or any of the other changeable aspects.

Same goes for "book" or "movie" or "photograph" or "game". Even when you start to drill down - board game, video game, party game, etc., you still never describe the experience of the thing, only some of the accoutrements or tactics, if you will.

Branding something an ARG or a PEE excludes possibilities rather than embracing them. I look at a name like ARG, and I think of it the same way I think of "Platformer" or First Person Shooter" -- it's one specific type of [blank].

So what the hell is a [blank]?

I have only questions, no answers!  ;)

-Mike


On 10/9/08 2:08 PM, "Andrea Phillips" <andrhia at gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Steve Peters <scpeters at gmail.com> wrote:

> At this point, we've been referring to them as Participatory Entertainment

> Experiences...

>


Wow, and I didn't think we could come up with a worse acronym if we'd tried!


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