unforum

[thebruce]

massive multiplayer online role playing game.

basically a persistent fantasy world, where you interact with a bunch of people while playing your RPG character. Generally speaking, there's no 'ultimate goal' to finish the game, just a whole bunch of events, quests and such that you work on until you become your ultimate character.

When they started as text games on the net, usually the few players who managed to last long enough (meaning by interest - usually many months of man-hours in play time, sometimes more than a year - which, depending on how often you play, can end up to be quite a long time) to not be able to advance any more became 'gods' or PMs, or more commonly, wizards. People who kept the game evolving - they knew the game so much they could alter the world - add new NPCs, events, quests, places...

these days MMORPGs are games like Worlds of Warcraft, and Everquest... depending on how involved you get, they can be quite addicting... and money holes

[Phaedra]

Ack, going to bed, so I'm not going to respond in depth tonight, although I'm very interested. But I couldn't leave this:

[DreamOfTheRood]

MMORPG's are games generally placed in a science fiction or fantasy setting where 13-year-old boys think they can get away with griefing you and making fun of your mom. The worst part about it is that they generally have much more free time to develop a character than you do, and you can thus not do much about them.
Oh, and you have to keep paying for a game you have already bought.
Of course, the upside is that you can join guilds that will let you in if you can pass the test, if you can be at practices, if you can be at events, if you've got a good enough machine and if you're cool enough.

*DreamOfTheRood really likes Morrowind.*

On the right topic ... an Ender's Game ARG for the movie, if it ever actually films, would be awesome.

[archon]

Since Buffy and Angel are both over and Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and Angel, is out of work (save his Firefly movie and whatever comics he writes)... BUFFY AND ANGEL ARG!

Oh YES.

Maybe some emails get sent out in a mock-spam type way (but to certain individuals) acting as a newsletter reporting that bloodbanks around the country have suddenly gotten in very short supply of blood, and they're not sure why... go donate blood!

In conjunction with the Red Cross, the Buffy movie ARG begins!

And-and-and... the Buffy movie would be about the actual-real TOTAL END OF THE WORLD APOCALYPSE and manages to encorporate both casts (those who are still alive, at least) all the while pushing the boundaries of what we consider visual entertainment to be!@#E@

This could have big implications on the ARG since I find end of the world Apocalypses to be real darn cool, and wish they happened more often in ARGs that are funded by giant corporations named Microsoft about games that aren't really about end of the world Apocalypses.

BOOYAH.

Edited to add ever-important parenthesis for further clarification of my overwhelming but semi-masculine genius.

Edited again because donating blood is kinda political, and I see that now, but it's for a good cause and I was excited when I thought it up, so sue me.

[water10]

[Phaedra]

[HitsHerMark]

[OmegaX]

[water10]

[krystyn]

Personally, I would love to PM a Lemony Snicket ARG. I freaking love those books, and Daniel Handler seems like the type of guy that would love the concept. The websites for the movie are very fun and have some game elements to them, and the kids who read the books and 'get' them would definitely tend to be thinkers and puzzlers.

Man. The thought of it!

[Phaedra]

[water10]

[Lurking_Kouzou]

Heh, Multi User Dungeon is, in fact, correct.

[Clayfoot]

ARG based on altruistic punishment

[angelo]