“The conspiracy in Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 may be an ARG set up by Pierce Inverarity to bedevil Oedipa Maas.”

about

• Alternate_reality_game and History_of_Alternate_Reality_Games
• http://www.unfiction.com/
• http://www.argn.com/

reading

• antecedents > http://www.igda.org/wiki/Alternate_Reality_Games_SIG/Whitepaper/Antecedents_to_Alternate_Reality_Games
• general information http://www.igda.org/arg/whitepaper.html
• WIRED article on 'Year Zero' > http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_args
• designing magnets
  • http://en.oreilly.com/et2008/public/schedule/detail/1570
  • http://craphound.com/etech08_Elan_Lee_Designing_Magnets.txt

games x-ref

• i love bees
• perplex city
• world w/out oil
• future calling

• 2 pro-gaming talks by by Game-designer Jane McGonigal and Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon: http://www.wetenschap24.nl/nieuws/artikelen/2011/februari/Gamification.html
• presentation by Jesse Schell: http://www.avantgame.com/McGonigal%20ARG%20MacArthur%20Foundation%20NOV%2004.pdf

Comments: Alternate Reality Games are now being used as educational tools within mainstream schooling institutions to the extent that conferences are now being set up specifically for this sub-genre of game: http://conference.operationsleepercell.com

http://lib.fo.am/awhi_world is an example of a Foam experiment using ARG elements within an elementary/primary school in an economically challenged area of Auckland, NZ.