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Alternate Reality Games Examined

Posted by Zonk on from the he's-everywhere-he's-everywhere dept.

The Guardian's gamesblog has an interview up with Matt Adams, one of the members of the company Blast Theory. Blast theory was given the "Maverick Award" at GDC 2005 for their Alternate Reality Game Uncle Roy All Around You, which uses mobile technology to insert players into a virtual landscape while traversing real London streets. From the interview: "Games are an expression of the ways in which the virtual interpenetrates our lives in ever more complex ways. Desert Rain took the Gulf War of 1991 as a critical moment in this process: when it became widely understood that the killing itself was 'off screen' and the imagery of war was taking over. Soldiers themselves are taught in increasingly computer generated spaces and have less direct contact with their enemy. And many of them are avid games players. America's Army is a game funded by the US Army to bring in new recruits."

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  1. ARG Network by wallykeyster · · Score: 3, Informative

    For anyone interested in more information on ARG, check out the ARG Network.

  2. Not an ARG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    As well-known UK ARGinado Adrian Hon points out in a comment on that article, Uncle Roy is not an ARG in any real sense of the word. ARGN is a much better place to go for ARGs -- think I Love Bees.