"Firing squad" Print Ad for Amnesty International by Tbwa\paris. Vanished. Vanished is a "curated game," a format derived from alternate reality games (ARGs) for museums, being developed by Education Arcade for the Smithsonian museums in Washington D.C., with NSF funding.
The game ran from April 4 through May 22 2011, and targeted middle school age kids in informal settings like afterschool programs. The ARG aspects of the game included going to museums and interacting with real world places and objects as kids solved puzzles to unravel a fictional interdisciplinary science mystery that touched on life sciences, environmental sciences, paleontology, archaeology, geology, anthropology, math, the arts, and language arts. Frank Lloyd Wright. Open the Door into the Science of Color Theory.