[arg_discuss] TOW: almost 8 years after the Beast, which is your favourite ARG and why?

[Brian Clark]

Like Brooke, I disagree with the premise ... "Blair Witch" had far more
impact on rethinking this type of storytelling. You could just as easily
pick "13th Anniversary of 'Johnny Mnemonic'" and hit the same themes as The
Beast and a longer legacy in terms of defining "experience design" as a
discipline. One must be careful not to let one's own "first ARG" become some
arbitrary indicator of the beginning of time. 

But really your suggested topic boils down to "what is your favorite ARG and
why?" No offense, but not the most inspiring of discussion starters, is it?
For me, it just begs the question, "When exactly did the golden age of
ARGing end?" My nomination would be 2003 when Perplex City and Art of the
Heist were running at the same time.

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favourite ARG and why?

2009/1/13 Brooke Thompson <brooke at mirlandano.com>:

> There are so many other milestones we could use other than "almost 8 years

> after the Beast..." - what about "with the 10th anniversary of Blair Witch

> upon us..." or "15 years after Publius Enigma...".


I was interested in what people thought of the recent era where we've
seen an especially big proliferation of new ARGs, and the
proliferation of particularly strong communities (i.e. ones that have
persisted beyond the end of the ARG's that inspired them) for playing,
studying, and inventing them.

I do believe it did some unique things - such as inspiring people to
believe that ARGs could work, and showing them how, in a way that
other projects didn't, and at a time when Majestic had freshly crashed
and burned - but I wasn't trying to imply that it was the first or
most important of the ARGs. I'm sorry if it sounded that way.

Adam
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