notes & links

Lonelygirl and the Beast: Alternate Reality Games as Immersive Marketing, Art and Information
Rachel Bridgewater and Anne-Marie Deitering
22 February 2008

REFERENCE TOOLS

Glossary of ARG terms (Unfiction.com)

The Unforums at Unfiction

ARG’S AND GAME FORUMS

The Beast

This link goes to the Wikipedia article for the game. Until a few days ago, the best place to find out about The Beast ARG was at the Cloudmakers’ website (http://cloudmakers.org). There’s a notice now saying the site was suspended and no word whether it will be back up. Before it came down, this site included links to archived copies of the game websites, a guide to the narrative and puzzles, and a lot more.

ilovebees

• Dana Awbrey’s blog
• Fireflies, the i love bees wiki
• 42 Entertainment, the puppetmasters

Year Zero

• iamtryingtobelieve.com
• Year Zero research on the NiN wiki
• Secret Websites, Coded Messages: The New World of Immersive Games. (Wired Magazine, 16.01, 12/20/2007)
• Year Zero flickr pool

World Without Oil

• World Without Oil: Democratic Imagination?
• World Without Oil community on LiveJournal
• World Without Oil guides for teachers

Cathy’s Book

• Cathy’s MySpace
• Cathy’s Key (the sequel)

The Lost Experience

• The Lost Experience at Lostpedia
• The Lost Experiences Clues
• Official ABC Lost Experience Blog

Lonelygirl15

• First Blog/ Dorkiness Prevails
• LG15 YouTube channel
• Lonelygirl15’s MySpace
• The Secret World of Lonelygirl (Wired Magazine. 14.12. December 2006)
• LGPedia, the wiki

Heroes Evolutions (formerly Heroes 360)

• Primatech Paper Company
• Hana Gitelman’s Underground web site
• Heroes Clues

FURTHER READING

The Meta forum at Unfiction

ARGNET - Alternate Reality Gaming Network

Christy Dena’s bibliography for “Emerging Participatory Culture Practices: Player-Created Tiers in Alternate Reality Games” (Convergence, 14:1, February 2008)

Jane McGonigal’s Research page