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Designing reusable alternate reality games
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2013Successful Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), such as The Lost Experience, I Love Bees and Urgent EVOKE have solicited thousands of active participants and, often, millions of spectators from around the world. ARGs require significant resources not only in terms of initial design, but also in implementation, since live, dynamic interplay between players ...
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Designing alternate reality games
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2012An Alternate Reality Game (ARG) is a form of transmedia storytelling, with narrative elements that are distributed across multiple communications platforms, ranging from print materials to mobile devices. ARGs also represent a new genre of transmedia practice where players collaboratively hunt for clues, make sense of disparate information, and solve ...
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Alternate reality games for computer science education
Proceedings of the 13th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 2013Alternate reality games (ARG) are games that often blur the boundaries of reality and fiction. They use many different types of media to deliver an interactive narrative to the players and include puzzles that are part of a bigger quest that the players are trying to solve.
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Innovative induction with Alternate Reality Games
, 2008 Induction is a key factor in helping students acclimatise to Higher Education and in ensuring retention. However, induction activities – both formal and informal – regularly fail to cater for the needs of the diverse range of students that are now ...
Whitton, Nicola +3 more
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Participation, collaboration and spectatorship in an alternate reality game
Proceedings of the 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Designing for Habitus and Habitat, 2008In this paper we present a study of an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) called MeiGeist -- a cross media game in which narrative elements of a story presented to players across a whole range of on-line and offline media and through which players can interact with in-game characters and events.
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2013
Anhand der Analyse drei verschiedener ARGs – The Lost Experience, Das Buch 2011 und Conspiracy for Good – wird dem Phänomen um Alternate Reality Games auf den Grund gegangen. Um eine umfassende Analyse zu ermöglichen werden wichtige technologische Entwicklungen das Internet betreffend, neue Arten des Storytellings und filmische Einflüsse aus den 1990er
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Anhand der Analyse drei verschiedener ARGs – The Lost Experience, Das Buch 2011 und Conspiracy for Good – wird dem Phänomen um Alternate Reality Games auf den Grund gegangen. Um eine umfassende Analyse zu ermöglichen werden wichtige technologische Entwicklungen das Internet betreffend, neue Arten des Storytellings und filmische Einflüsse aus den 1990er
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Alternate Reality Games -- Definition
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013Alternate Reality Gaming is an emerging game genre that blurs the lines between reality and fiction by conveying a hybrid gaming experience through online and offline mechanisms. Primarily developed from and for the Internet, these games blend online and offline gameplay such that they create playing fields in everyday spaces.
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The Pedagogical Application of Alternate Reality Games
International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2015The advent of the Internet has been instrumental in producing new Game Based Learning (GBL) tools where education and games converge. Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) are one such GBL tool. Interactive narrative games that use the Internet as a central communications platform, ARGs challenge players to collaboratively collate a fragmented story.
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Mobile Alternate Reality Gaming Engine: A Usability Evaluation
2010 Seventh International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, 2010We propose MARGE, a game which incorporates multiplayer, pervasive gaming elements into mobile content sharing. MARGE allows users to annotate real world locations with multimedia content, and concurrently, provide opportunities for play through creating and engaging interactive game elements, earning currency, and socializing.
Alton Yeow-Kuan Chua +3 more
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The ABC's of ARGs: Alternate Reality Games for Learning
eLearn, 2011An alternate reality game (ARG) is sometimes called a pervasive game or transmedia storytelling. Regardless of what you call it at its core is a game driven by a story with players performing activities that mirror real life, making ARGs a perfect fit for scenario-based learning.
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