[arg_discuss] What if ARGs had a real festival?

[John Evans]

So people would attend this event, interact with story characters, interact with each other, solve puzzles...Basically it sounds like Live Action Roleplaying without character sheets.  That's not a criticism, of course, I'm all for LARPing.  (Suddenly I'm imagining explaining the idea of ARGs: "It's like LARP, but you 'play' yourself.")  Anyway, my point is: There have got to be people who have run "LARP weekends" that have games going on.  And I know LARPing happens at conventions like I-Con.  Does anyone have any contacts in the LARP community who could offer the benefit of their experience?

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John Evans
Chaoseed Software - http://chaoseed.com

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>From: Michael Monello <mmonello at campfirenyc.com>

>Sent: Sep 2, 2009 2:49 PM

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>Subject: [arg_discuss] What if ARGs had a real festival?

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>What if ARGs had a festival, ala Fringe Fest or Come Out and Play, where you could actually go and have ARG or ARG-like experiences? What would that look like and how would it work?

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>I was thinking about the discussion on the evolution of ARGFest and I kept going back to the fact that ARGFest is really a conference focused on talking about ARGs, and what's needed is a Festival, where we can go and play them. It could have panels as well, like a film festival, but the panels would be in context of the experiences going on at the festival.

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>Is there any value in something like that?

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>-Mike

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