With alternate reality games, players are asked to immerse themselves in the story as themselves. I think gamers are predisposed to embrace the idea of interacting with stories, ...

An alternate reality game, commonly referred to as as “ARG,” is a game that uses clues delivered via multiple real-world devices or the Internet in order to… ...

Alternate-reality games remove the risk. “We all know that we learn more from failures than successes,” Gilliam said. “We create a place where people learn how to fail and learn to pick ...

Games can be more than simple entertainment suggests Jane McGonigal. They have the power to fuel scientific research and crowd source real-world problems. A veteran alternate reality game designer ...

Alternate-reality games, which use the actual world as their stage and encourage players to participate by imagining themselves, as themselves, in simulated situations, may be the curriculum of ...

This article reflects on the alternate reality games of 2010, commenting on everything from buried muppet pirate treasure to a national manhunt facilitated by Wired. Read on to learn about the ...

“Alternate reality games are absorptive in the sense that they combine any other art form that you can imagine. “There are visual components, audio dimensions, interactive elements. There’s live ...

McGonigal hopes that, as in other alternate reality games, the crowd takes the game and runs with it. McGonigal said the team invented 13 mythical creatures, but it invites players to create more.

The 8-week alternate reality game engages students to try to figure out the cause of an environmental disaster using games, puzzles, online challenges, museum visits and scientific deduction.

Alternate reality game launching Fall ‘22 will measure resilience of first-year students ... In reality, these are the games’ designers, most of whom are Computational Media Ph.D. students at the ...

The two of them were playing Ingress, an alternate reality game (or ARG) run by a Google startup called Niantic Labs. Ingress is like a giant game of Risk or Capture the Flag, only the game board ...

How an Actual Alternate Reality Game Helped ‘Dispatches From Elsewhere’ Pull Off That ‘Communal’ Finale “That last little treat of the show needed to be secret to have the impact it did ...