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[Phaedra]

Re: "Local" ARGs

[Nightmare Tony]

Good luck, Prof. This might help, though. We had just finished up a small ARG which is on here. All the storyline and communication between tghe PMS were on a private message board. None of us have met in person in fact, and only one other PM I had brought in that I talk to via phone.

You may wish to consider that in the running of your ARG. You can also recruit on here some likely PMs. I thnk there is still a classified for PMs on here

[Phaedra]

[Nightmare Tony]

Different dynamic then. One would need to target the local computer population then, but that also means that most everyone may know who is doing the game there depends on how large and how close knit the internet community is there....

[Phaedra]

[Nightmare Tony]

The game is not at all needing to be computer related. As you remember, the original THE GAME in Seattle while it may use computers, is entirely based on physical locations.

Prof Moriarty has many ways to go, depending on his goals. As I mentioned we did with DarkSky, none of us even lived in the same state, but all worked together to provide a fun game experience for the players.

There is no rule that says that Prof must depend on local talent to help with his campaign. He can always set up to use talent from all over but the PLAYER base being local.

All we are offering is advice in here for him, but he must elucidate for us the precise goals he is seeking. we cannot assume his goals and definitions for this game.

[bill]

[Nightmare Tony]

a LOT of the talent in here isnt necessarily the technophile crowd. You can also find people form all walks of life all over the net, so I do think that even going onto a board like this here gives a good cross section of the various facets required.

I do agree fully aobut the various disciplines needed for making a complelling and fun game. Too heavy or light in any of the dynamics such as storyline, puzzles, execution, interaction can make for a bad game.

[leakingpen]

woot!

[JebJoya]

I'd been thinking about doing one here at uni, stick some things on the notice boards in the union to get people in, that sort of thing... Mainly grab the freshers next year, get a community doing the thing which is always good for freshers when they start at uni... I've got a web designer and stuff, tho there shouldn't be too much online, it'll be more like a treasure hunt in real life, I dunno, could work...

Jeb

[C_Brennan]

Yeah... oddly enough I was considering doing something for the University of Pittsburgh... Just never got around to actually fleshing out the idea of "Veritas Virtus" as it was going to be named... And it sorta fell on the wayside because it wasn't important...

Maybe next year... if I actually want to resurrect the possibility of running it...

[imbri]

Look into campus resources for that as well. I know that we've talked about a variety of pervasive experiences with the Mobile Tech Group at Ga Tech.

- b

[clownhater7]

I am going to start one revolving around myspace, since nearly the whole school has it. (BTW, I live in Albuquerque, NM)

http://www.myspace.com/iseeyouRGHS

[White_Knight]

Clownhater7: I'd be very careful if I were you. Alot of new ARGers come in and immediately want to jump behind that curtain. Most get tangled in the fabric, trip, end up falling into the machine, get ground up and spit out. If i had 1 peice of advice for you: WAIT!

Just chill in the community for a while....just hang....get a grasp of the art form, how things are done, try to get your self onto a team as a helper, then SLOWLY get into running games.....and by slowly I mean 2 to 3 years is a good time.

[clownhater7]