[arg_discuss] What if ARGs had a real festival?

[Christopher Amherst]

Personally, I think that a "play" festival would have two possible effects:
1) Frustrate players because it is difficult to encapsulate all the
nuances of a long-term interactive narrative, unless the festival was
just a "launch" event for several productions or the ARG had built-in
an "event" at the festival.

2) Has the potential of forcing developers, designers, and writers to
distill their narratives into intense experiences because of the
likely time constraints.  Ie. "You have 4 - 6 hours to get people in
and out of Wonderland"   It would also likely launch the "micro-ARG"
format.

Yes, I agree if you program it closer to a Sundance Film Festival
rather than a Comic-Con, it would have a stronger appeal to me on a
professional level.  More so, if some of the experiences at the
Festival gave us creative types a chance to ponder how we could
integrate that activity in some later production.

Chris


On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Michael Monello<mmonello at campfirenyc.com> wrote:

> 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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