Alternate Reality Games Grow In Popularity

Posted by Zonk on Monday February 13, 2006 @07:24AM from the you-could-be-playing-one-right-now dept.

A Joystiq post has some commentary on the popularity of Alternate Reality Games. Specifically, they reference some statistics gathered to give quantifiable metrics to game popularity. From the post: "Based on official numbers, the volume of forum posting and the number of hits on Google, these figures are pretty impressive. Two of the better-known ARGs -- The Beast and I Love Bees -- attracted upwards of two million players, according to their designers." For folks who play: What is your sense of their popularity? How many people do you know who play?

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Re:I'm sorry... by voice_of_all_reason · 2006-02-13 07:43 · Score: 3, Funny

I dunno about you, but my job has me running around corridors in a cardbox box before popping out to snap the necks of enemy guards.

Whoops, gotta go. Getting another call on the transceiver...
Re:One gamer's take... by inio · 2006-02-13 08:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Because of the non-physical and low-visial environment that ARGs take, there's no fighting, adventuring, sword-swinging, racing, or gun shootng- in short, 70% of the gaming world wouldn't quite understand.

I dunno, hunting for payphones would qualify for about half of that.