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thebruce
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 		[WWO] Press
since we're in args with potential

Press/news media:

Provocative politics in virtual games
* http://news.com.com/Provocative+politics+in+virtual+games/2100-1043_3-6171089.html

Interviews with Jane McGonigal:
* http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/03/network_games_t.html
* http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=13182
* http://www.sfweekly.com/2007-04-18/news/future-games/

More
* Pitchfork Media - Surviving a World Without Oil
* Gameology - World Without Oil: An ARG Worth its Weight in Carbon Credits
* Contra Costa Times - Alternative reality game takes on the end of oil
* Cross-Media/Transmedia Entertainment - World Without Oil: towards a responsible ARG
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 6:56 pm
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Rekidk
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 		Not sure if I'm allowed to add, but I just found this:

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/04/world_without_o.html

Which I had to post, because:

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They are using content scattered throughout the web to create this new reality. Youtube videos that tour the oil fields of Texas, blogs and a LiveJournal Community are attributed to fictional characters like RedHatty, Gwen McGinnis, txchuckles, and Gala Teah.


RedHatty! You're a fictional character? There you go breaking the Unfiction TOS again! XD

Actually, this is really a feather in your crimson hat, Red. I'd say that if you're creating content that is so good that this reporter would mistake it for IG material, that's pretty impressive. Rock On
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PostPosted: Tue May 01, 2007 6:15 pm
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RedHatty
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 		OMG, How do you find these tings Rekidk? That is too freaky! And top that off with the fact that my name is now a tag for the game too! I think I need to remove something from my flickr acct before people find out I am real!

Wow went to read the article & the comments & dang if I didn't get on a soapbox (BTW, TY KSG) So here is what I put in the comments
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Wow, I guess I should take it as a compliment that my submissions are thought to be an in game character's. Reality is I am just a person playing the game. My posts are based on real knowledge or experience, I really live in the New Orleans area & am also a real Hurricane Katrina survivor.

As to the purpose of WWO - the game... The amount of actively, effectively vocal people who want to get the monkey of Big Oil off our backs is not as large as it needs to be for anyone to take us seriously. If using an alternate reality game can make more people aware of alternative fuels, the real costs behind an oil based life & culture, get more people to exercise by walking or bike riding, get more people growing their own produce & therefore eating healthier food, even if it does not create people who will call & write their congress critters and give them pressure to support alternative fuels legislation, it will still have a positive effect.

Now in a perfect world, this game would help wake some people up, make them see just how bad their own addiction is to oil and start to change & also call for the country to change. Reality is that we are all in slavery, we are in slavery to big oil. I realized that & I refuse to buy another car, I use public transportation & a bicycle. I have reduced my use and waste of plastics, and have taken positive steps to reduce my energy usage at home.

We hope that the people who play the game will ultimately live some of what they "pretend" if they don't already. Right now there are over 400 active players, by conservative estimates, that means there are probably 3000 people following it, but not making submissions.

You know the old MLM game, you tell 2 people & they tell 2 people? Well if that happens with this game, that is a whole lot of awareness about the reality of peak oil, a coming oil crisis & how to survive it without losing your mind, morals or health.

So what could be wrong with that?

Thanks for the compliment, calling me a character (although I have been called that before, just never in reference to a game) & hey - give the game a shout out on the radio, why don't ya? Did you hear that Bill?


Okay I am in shock - I got a reply!

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ha! Nice to meet you. I'll update the post to reflect this info.

from talking with Jane I had the impression that all of the content created previous to launch were from characters.

Are you on the staff of the game? a volunteer? or did you just start playing?

brady


And I then replied
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Hi Smile

No I am not staff, and I am not a volunteer, I am just a player, like
400 others. I am very involved with unfiction (the ultimate ARG
community) and I am moderating the player forum for this game there
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/index.php?f=220 .

If you read the multi page thread [trailhead] there you will see when
& how we started to have interaction with the real game characters.
We learned that Livejournal & Vox would be the places to share, so I
started blogs.

I was thinking about just what to say to catch some attention, really,
just to give a "wake up call" and so my first blog entry came into
being. http://redhatty.livejournal.com/582.html

Well, once the real "puppetmasters" read it, I received a comment from
3 of the 10 real game characters with a request to share some
knowledge & my blog has evolved from there Smile

So to summarize, I do volunteer to Unforums - an out of game player
community, I do not work with the WWO staff, Just a player Smile But
thanks for the attention for the game, the free publicity (we could
use more, again, how about having Bill make a shout out?) and the
reply with a concern for factual reporting/blogging Smile

Keep up the good work!

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