Alternate Reality Games, a.k.a. ARGs, are for sure a hard thing to define.
Aristotle said with his ancient wisdom: “don’t try to define an ARG, better show a couple of examples”
Before that, I’ll like to show an image that, in my opinion, is ARGs in a nutshell (stoled from Andrea Phillips)
Alternate Reality Games
Now we can answer: what is an ARG?
The answers, in no particular order:
Zona Incerta (portuguese)
Darkstris, a cooperative multiplayer tetris game was the grand prize winner in the non-student category of the Project Darkstar Developer Challenge.
Project Darkstar it’s a platform targeted for the development of massive multiplayer games, virtual worlds and social networking applications, created by Sun Microsystems.
Here are the slides and video of the Alternate Reality Games talk at the EVA 2008 (Argentine Videogames Exposition).
22 MB of pictures, videos and ARG cats.
Slides in spanish, videos in english… there ya go
