[arg_discuss] What if ARGs had a real festival?

[Michael Monello]

That might be one experience within the larger festival, but I  
wouldn't imagine it be all about role playing, but more an environment  
condusive to presenting and experiencing a variety of ARGs and similar  
type experiences.

Mike
http://www.campfirenyc.com/
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On Sep 2, 2009, at 4:02 PM, "John Evans" <btradish at earthlink.net> wrote:


> 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?

>

> --

> John Evans

> Chaoseed Software - http://chaoseed.com

>

> -----Original Message-----

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

>> Sent: Sep 2, 2009 2:49 PM

>> To: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG <arg_discuss at igda.org>

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

>>

>> 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?

>>

>> 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.

>>

>> Is there any value in something like that?

>>

>> -Mike

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