[arg_discuss] ARG movies?

[Rob Jagnow]

I suppose you could consider War Games
(1983)<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/>.
 But rather than a game that looks like reality, this one's reality that
looks like a game.

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2012/3/27 Geneviève Cardin <baroblik at videotron.ca>


> The only thing that seems to look like what you're looking for, as I

> recall, is a one hour episode of the TV show Nub3rs that I saw on CBS in

> 2007.

> Only missing few minutes to be consider as a movie ;)

>

> http://areacodeinc.com/**projects/chain-factor-numb3rs-**arg/<http://areacodeinc.com/projects/chain-factor-numb3rs-arg/>

>

>

> The Cube was not really based on ARG, but if you have spare time, you

> might want to take a look at it.

>

>

>  Geneviève Cardin

>> Baroblik

>> ARG / Transmedia experiences

>> Web,  Movies & TV, Serious games

>>

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> Le 12-03-27 à 04:27, Jaakko Stenros a écrit :

>

>

>  Quoting Markus Montola <markus.montola at uta.fi>:

>>

>> This one is just around the corner: http://www.theinstitutemovie.**com/<http://www.theinstitutemovie.com/>

>>

>> Could you specify a little bit more what it is that you are looking for?

>>

>> Jaakko

>>

>>  I'm not sure if *any* ARG movies exist.

>>>

>>>

>>> But if you are looking for pervasive games movies -- as in "games that

>>> blur the boundary between play and ordinary life" -- then you might want to

>>> look at these for instance:

>>>

>>> http://pervasivegames.**wordpress.com/2009/02/10/20/<http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/20/>

>>> http://pervasivegames.**wordpress.com/2009/03/16/**

>>> pervasive-games-in-films-part-**ii-the-last-of-sheila/<http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/pervasive-games-in-films-part-ii-the-last-of-sheila/>

>>> http://pervasivegames.**wordpress.com/2009/05/14/**

>>> pervasive-games-in-films-part-**iii-midnight-madness/<http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/pervasive-games-in-films-part-iii-midnight-madness/>

>>> http://pervasivegames.**wordpress.com/2009/08/10/**

>>> pervasive-games-in-films-part-**iv-bruno/<http://pervasivegames.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/pervasive-games-in-films-part-iv-bruno/>

>>>

>>> Also the documentary killer.berlin.doc.

>>>

>>> You can look up more that kind of stuff from our book Pervasive Games --

>>> we even dug out some ancient episode of The Saint which featured the Death

>>> Game, and probably contributed a lot to the spread of the assassination

>>> games:

>>> http://www.imdb.com/title/**tt0693517/fullcredits<http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0693517/fullcredits>

>>>

>>>

>>> Pardon the self-promotion, :-)

>>>

>>> - Markus Montola

>>>

>>> On 3/27/12 4:40 AM, John Willoughby wrote:

>>>

>>>> No offense intended but I think that's an impossibly vague description.

>>>> ARG

>>>> is such a fuzzy category...

>>>>

>>>> If you mean arg as in alternate reality, then there are many examples to

>>>> choose from. From "20,000 leagues" to "The genetic opera" and

>>>> everything in

>>>> between.

>>>>

>>>> If you mean arg as in what most of the people who frequent

>>>> unfiction.com

>>>> would think of...that's different.

>>>>

>>>> And even then do you mean something that is totally TINAG and simply

>>>> presents an "I wake up and the world is different"? or something that

>>>> features a "game" and pulls back a curtain (at least at some point) -

>>>> like

>>>> "The Game"?

>>>>

>>>> An ARG definition fits so well the old joke about "ask 10 people, get 12

>>>> answers".

>>>>

>>>> And then, how narrow are you defining a "film"? Can it be a reasonable

>>>> length of assorted vid like Marble Hornets or iamamiwhoami? Or does it

>>>> have

>>>> to be a contiguous 1-2 hour production?

>>>>

>>>>

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

>>>> From: arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org [mailto:arg_discuss-bounces@**

>>>> igda.org <arg_discuss-bounces at igda.org>] On

>>>> Behalf Of JEFF HULL

>>>> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 7:00 PM

>>>> To: Discussion list of the IGDA ARG SIG

>>>> Subject: [arg_discuss] ARG movies?

>>>>

>>>> Hello List,

>>>>

>>>> I am wondering if anyone here knows about feature length documentaries

>>>> or

>>>> fictional films made about ARG experiences.  We know about "The Game"

>>>> and

>>>> "eXistenZ" which gesture toward pervasive gaming.  I am speaking more

>>>> specifically about contemporary movies which focus on ARG / Trans-Media

>>>> players, projects, etc.  Recommendations are appreciated!

>>>>

>>>> Thanks very much,

>>>> Jeff Hull

>>>>

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