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December 10, 2005

Welcome to the ARG SIG

Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), or Cross-Media Entertainment (CME), are where the game breaks out of being a dedicated application on your PC, and instead becomes a part of the world in which you live.

Since 2001, they have been breaking exciting new ground in online gaming, appearing to redefine some of the accepted rules of game development:
- virtual worlds where all the players are constantly altering the world by their actions
- characters that manifest in the real world, yet every nuance of interaction feeds back into the game
- deep stories that effortlessly suck-in the players and hold them rapt
- thousands of players at a time collaborating intensively, with no griefing

This SIG has been founded to bring together those already designing, building, and running ARGs, in order to share knowledge, experience, and ideas for the future. We hope to spark renewed debate and experimentation on the uses and pros of ARGs, and to help developers new to the genre to develop good products first-time round.

Posted by AdamMartin at December 10, 2005 10:32 PM

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