Alternate reality game. An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.
The form is defined by intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real time and evolves according to players' responses. Subsequently, it is shaped by characters that are actively controlled by the game's designers, as opposed to being controlled by artificial intelligence as in a computer or console video game. Players interact directly with characters in the game, solve plot-based challenges and puzzles, and collaborate as a community to analyze the story and coordinate real-life and online activities. ARGs generally use multimedia, such as telephones, email and mail but rely on the Internet as the central binding medium.
Definition[edit] Unique terminology[edit] Among the terms essential to understand discussions about ARGs are: Computer/console/video games. AvantGame by Jane McGonigal. Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world. Avantgame channel. JaneMcGonigal interviewed. Video:fixing the world.
Saving the World Through Game Design. Clay Shirky CognitiveSurplus. O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference 2007. Will a Game Designer Ever Be Nominated for. Many people first heard the name Jane McGonigal in connection with the ilovebees Alternate Reality Game that was run in conjunction with the release of . For many, that game was the first time that they heard how internet forums, and secret clues left in meatspace, could be tell a story through a shared reality.
McGonigal didn't stop there and crafted several more games over the years, culminating in Urgent EVOKE , which encourages African schoolkids to make the world a better place. But perhaps greater than all of this, is the game that she made for herself, SuperBEtter, to help her recover from a concussion, as Allen Varney tells in issue 252 of : Taking a heroic identity, Jane the Concussion Slayer, she embarked on a "superhero to-do list" of goals, "trying to level up in things that are going to help me recover" (1. Satisfying work to do). Within days, her mood lightened and her motivation improved. Jane McGonigal Lives the Game. Receiving the prestigious Nobel Peace Price isn’t usually in the cards for any game designer, but for ARG mastermind, Jane McGonigal, it just makes sense.
Many people first heard the name Jane McGonigal in connection with the ilovebees Alternate Reality Game that was run in conjunction with the release of Halo 2. For many, that game was the first time that they heard how internet forums, and secret clues left in meatspace, could be tell a story through a shared reality. McGonigal didn’t stop there and crafted several more games over the years, culminating in Urgent EVOKE, which encourages African schoolkids to make the world a better place. Saving the world, one hit point at a time - tech - 25 May 2010 - Editorial: Slaying stereotypes about video games NEXT time you fancy spreading a bit of digital carnage, try doing it with a virus.
Not a worm or a trojan horse, but an influenza virus, mutating and spreading across the virtual globe. See how many people you can infect in 180 days, but be warned, if you don't get your strategy right your virulence will diminish and your would-be pandemic will fizzle out. Welcome to Killer Flu, a video game in which you play the role of H1N1. Pushing yourself to pandemic proportions is much harder than you might think, which is precisely the point. This growing trend isn't just about raising awareness. Jane McGonigal Biography. Avantgame. Alternate Realities - Jane McGonigal Keynote SXSW 2008. McGonigal CookieRolling. For more detailed rules of this personal game, click here.
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The Lost Ring. The Lost Ring was an alternate reality game (ARG) initiated by McDonald's, as part of their marketing for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China.
A co-production between McDonald's, AKQA, and Jane McGonigal, the game was notable for its global scope: taking place across six continents, in seven languages, and running for six months (29 February - 24 August 2008). It began with six amnesiac athletes with strange tattoos, and culminated in the "revival" of a fictional Ancient Olympic sport - which the narrative described as having disappeared 2000 years ago before the events of the game.[1] The game[edit] Over the first week of March, www.findthelostring.com was populated with blogs for "her" (Ariadne) and "the others" (Lucie, Markus, Noriko, Mei Hui, Larissa and Diego), each in a different language: English, French, German, Japanese, Mandarin, Portuguese and Spanish.
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If the people at the International Olympics Committee, McDonald's, and worldwide brand experience firm AKQA have anything to say about it, the list of people who know McGonigal and her work will soon expand geometrically. AKQA.COM. AKQA. AKQA is an ideas and innovation company that specializes in creating digital services and products.
Interactive agencies foreign. Urgent Evoke A crash course in changing the world. Jane McGonigal. Engagement Economy [SR-1183] Institute For The Future. Iftf. Jane McGonigal Institute For The Future. IFTF Research AffiliateChief Creative Officer, SuperBetter Labs Jane McGonigal is a world-renowned designer of alternate reality games—or, games that are designed to improve real lives and solve real problems.
She believes game designers are on a humanitarian mission—and her #1 goal in life is to see a game developer win a Nobel Peace Prize. She is the New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Penguin Press, 2011), and currently serves as Creative Director for Social Chocolate, where she is making games powered by the science of positive emotion and social connection.
Chaîne de avantgame. Massively Multiplayer Thought Expe. Fast Company Jane McGonigal at Institute for. Jane McGonigal: The game changer. This article was taken from the July issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online As Jane McGonigal sees it, "reality is broken" -- but "game designers can fix it". So she creates games that encourage players to pool resources in solving epic global challenges. “There is no problem that doesn’t have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration,” says the 32-year-old director of games R&D at Palo Alto’s Institute for the Future.
Jane McGonigal: Video Games: An Hour A Day Is Key To Success In Life. The single biggest misconception about games is that they’re an escapist waste of time. But more than a decade’s worth of scientific research shows that gaming is actually one of the most productive ways we can spend time. No, playing games doesn’t help the GDP - our traditional measure of productivity. But games help us produce something more important than economic bottom line: powerful emotions and social relationships that can change our lives—and potentially help us change the world.
Currently there are more than half a billion people worldwide playing online games at least an hour a day — and 183 million in the US alone. The younger you are, the more likely you are to be a gamer — 97% of boys under 18 and 94% of girls under 18 report playing videogames regularly. Natron Baxter Applied Gaming. Jane McGonigal’s Evoke: A Baxter Joint – Natron Baxter Applied G. Were any of us a trumpeter, we’d toot that thang. Gamers: A Documentary. Clans, Mods, and a Cultural Revolution. Counter-Strike, a revolutionary modification of Sierra Entertainment's Half-Life, has brought gamers together from all over the world like no other game. G4M3RS, a feature-length documentary, will tell the story of the lives affected by this game – those of the creators, the players, and the modders of today and tomorrow. The documentary showcases the action at the Summer 2002 Cyberathlete Professional League Championship Event, featuring top gaming clans from Brazil, Norway, Sweden, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Also featured will be Second 2 None (s2n), a California-based clan struggling to make a name for themselves in online competition and the local LAN scenes of Davis and San Jose. Natronbaxter. Surviving the Gamepocalypse – Natron Baxter Applied Gaming. GlobalGiving: donate to grassroots projects; education, health, Global Giving Partnership. Posted by Robert Hawkins on 18 May under evokation We are pleased to announce a partnership with Global Giving to help support the development of your EVOKATION. EVOKATION prize winners will receive their seed money in the form of a four week on-line challenge during the month of August, 2010 in which they will have an opportunity to generate additional resources from Global Giving’s vast online community.
Watch this video to learn more about Global Giving: A bit about Global Giving. GlobalGiving is an online marketplace that connects donors with social entrepreneurs around the world. As an EVOKE finalist, you will be invited to get involved with GlobalGiving in a unique way. Those who meet threshold criteria to be articulated at the time of the challenge will be invited to join the GlobalGiving community on a long-term basis at the conclusion of the month-long challenge. We are very excited to support your EVOKATION through this partnership! Creating a GlobalGiving Project Page - Evoke Challenge. United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference - Wikipedia, th.
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