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[Huriko]

 ARG

[Pixiestix]

Forgive me, as I honestly feel someone needs to say it. On Feb 11th you said on the forums that you are new to arging. As a new player, do you really feel you are ready to head a PM team? IF you look around here in the PMG section, you will see quite a few instances of people {much nicer than me} giving the same basic advice that i am about to say.

PLAY for a long time. JOIN a pm team as a behind the scenes person. Get some experience - then try your hand at your own game.

Either that or ask someone else to head the PM team while allowing you full creative rights. However, not likely people will jump at that.

The community has had a rather bad taste for games that implode. Implosion has become such a regular occurance that many experienced players won't even bat an eye at some games until it looks like it might take off. Please look around at imploded games for rights and wrongs.

[Jas0n]

While I agree with pixie over the concept that many young players who begin to create ARGs often tend to fail, I would like to say "good at ya."


I admire your aspirations in expressing your creativity through the development of an ARG.

I must, however, warn that as a player you see puzzles which take a group of players 20 to 30 minutes to decipher. You see various instances of character contacts with players, and you see various types of website usage. What you don't see is what happens behind the scenes.

I don't think that every PM must be a player for a particular amount of time, but I do think that every PM should understand what they're getting into.

Being a PM is not a walk in the park... those 20 to 30 minute solves took a PM team hours to days to develop. Those contacts took quite some time verifying that the information being fed to the players is correct (any slip could cause an enormous amount of work for the PM). Each website takes days to weeks to months to develop (depending on the resources available)... and please don't use free sites to launch a game - if you can't afford $9 a month or less for a website... then as you're developing the game's puzzles and storylines - save up

As a potential PM you're in for an experience, but you'll definitely be working your rear end off to make that experience happen.

Nothing matches the feeling of developing an interactive story and watching each of the pieces unfold to a welcoming audience - well other than finishing it successfully.

and nothing matches the sinking feeling of failure when you're trying to continue a story and there is no audience... or when you hear how disappointed that audience is when you quit on them.


Again, I applaud your desire to express your creativity .. I only hope that you know what you're getting into as you begin your preperations. Do what you have to do to get that successful conclusion...

oh and make sure there is a reason for everything

[Caz]

start small and work up.