[arg_discuss] Introductory post - Bonjour IGDA ARG SIG !

[Julien Aubert]

Hello everyone,

My name is Julien Aubert. I'm currently working in Second Life as a a
community manager. The people who know me well often say I'm demolecularized
in Social Networks. Before that, I've been a camp counselor for five years
and a student in marketing. I always wanted to play music or make movies, I
guess I love the same way ARGs bring people somewhere else. I discovered
ARGs in early 2008. Since then I didn't stop "lurking" on many games as I
could. And I have often been surprised by the creativity game-designers put
onto their games (sorry if I'm over-flattering). I like the big names but
also the little initatives that make this new field of entertainment so
exciting. As you do, I found it very difficult to actually name the many
forms reality tweaking takes. I prefer myself use the term : interactive
adventures.

I suscribed to the list last September. Like Thomas, I didn't feel the right
time to introduce myself since today. Reading all of you during those months
helped me becoming more passionated about innovating in game-design and so I
looked for a way to transmit this passion. I created Fais Moi Jouer with Mr
Bookmore because we wish to create and animate a community of ARG players.
We don't only focus on ARGs. We also deal with games that we qualify
cross-media, geo-location based, urban, casual, extended-experiences... For
that, we publish news but we will soon make players and gamers talk about
what is fun in this new kind of gaming.

Soon, we will publish video interviews of the guyz behind Can You Stop It ?
(Guillaume Charny-Brunet and Renaud Therry), Mazda 33 keys (Stéphane Raymond
and Thomas Pintal), Dollplay (Christopher Sandberg) and the Rivard Project
(Geneviève Cardin) [waves for those who are on this list ^^ ].

We really would like to find a way to constitute a real devil team of
players. So,we are now looking for other french speaking players. If you
know some, please put us in touch ;)

@faismoijouer @juli3n

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On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Thomas Maillioux <
thomas.maillioux at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hello everyone !

>

> I've been reading the archives of this list on and off but have been

> holding

> off joining until I'd feel I had something significant to add to the

> conversations, which I think might finally be the case ! And now it's time

> to introduce myself officially.

>

> My name's Tom Maillioux and alongside with working as a teacher-librarian,

> I've been playing a variety of games - spanning over Alternate and

> Not-So-Alternate Realities - and was invited to join aboard the Operation :

> Sleeper Cell ship one year ago. The few months of hard work that goes into

> organizing a game such as this one gave me a taste of how complicated,

> challenging and fascinating the process of getting people from very

> different fields to work together can be, and after this experience I

> started looking more seriously at what games and innovative programs

> centered on "serious gaming" and hacking everyday life objects to bring to

> a

> sometimes all-too-absent "wow factor" back to school

>

> But the project most related to this list for me these days is "Fais-moi

> Jouer !", a website my partner in crime Julien Aubert and I have been

> working for the last few months now, trying to put together and update as

> often as possible a website dedicated to Alternate Reality Games and gaming

> experiments for the French-speaking audience. We've done our best to keep

> our readers updated with news on a variety of subjects from the latest

> games

> and festivals to offering interviews of designers as well as trying to

> retrace the steps of the "culture" of ARGs as it emerged. There is lots,

> lots of work to do not only to develop the French audience's awareness but

> also reach out to communities and persons that would be interested in this

> new way to interact with a new to experience - and tell one's own -

> stories.

>

> I'm looking forward to participating to the discussions in this group and

> hopefully do what we can to help spread Alternate Reality Games and all

> they

> have to bring in terms of gameplay storytelling and Barney Stinson-levels

> of

> awesomeness across the world, French-speaking or otherwise.

>

> I'm looking forward to meeting/chatting/exchanging ideas with all of you as

> soon as possible !

>

> T.

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> http://www.faismoijouer.com

> http://www.tommaillioux.fr

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