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[Fishjp]

An ARG Experiment?

[diszaster]

I'm not a PM, but I'm game.

[lifegospel]

Interesting... I'll do it if there's enough interest.

[jessie1326]

Definitely sounds interesting to me...

[guywiththegun]

I'm a big fan of stuff like NaNoWriMo and Script Frenzy, and this definitely has shades of that going for it. Being very interested in ARG writing myself, I would say count me in if you end up doing something with this idea.

[Sarah B]

Yeah, if you go with it, I'm totally in.

[Nighthawk]

I'm game if I'm allowed to not put much effort in to it.

[jessie1326]

[Dray]

This sounds like quite a lot of fun, so long as it doesn't coincide with April... so busy right now!

[Fishjp]

Wow there is more interest in this than I thought there would be. I will get to work putting this together into an actual plan.

[distilled]

I don't see why not, I just came out of PMing my first ARG. Went pretty well, but it made me ill! Honestly, I created about 3/4 characters and living their lives as well as mine tore me up! I had to keep in mind where each character would be in relation to every other character - what each character would know, but the others wouldn't. I honestly think the stress of it made me ill.

I think I'd like to help with someone elses, but not just on my own!

Might be an interesting impetus to get a few more ARGs on the go.

[Sarah B]

[diszaster]

I wonder: would we all launch our "scenes" at the same time?

I'm definitely adding my vote to "more limited in scope" rather than more expansive. This could really suck a person in.

Should there be something OOG that links us all together? Like the way scriptfrenzy and nanowrimo have logos? (just thinking out loud)

[Sarah B]

It could be a concept that does... like a parallel universes project. So that's "why" we all have these themes that are consistent throughout all the miniARGs (such as character name, certain picture, etc) but why all the other things are different.

Perhaps the main character name could be what easily identifies the miniARGs as part of the set. I think having them launch staggered might be better - you'll get more people playing each individual game that way I would have thought.

[Fishjp]

My initial thoughts are to not have more than one of these running at a time. I thought that once we have everything in place to ask any PMs that are doing one to just make a note in this thread of the intended launch date and expected length of the game. I would imagine that most will be fairly short games, but I don't want to make that a rule in case someone gets a really good story together that will take them longer to tell.

I was also thinking that prior to the launch of the first game I would make a brief anouncement in the News and rumors forum explaining the concept and that if they want more information they can come read it here. That way everyone will understand why they are seeing the repeated elements and it may even draw more of a crowd of players and possibly some new PMs who want to give it a shot.

As for the required elements, my plan is to create 7 items (2 videos 2 photos a letter and 2 character discriptions) Then everyone making one of these would need to pick at least 4 of them to include in thier game.

I am still trying to sort out the best way to get the files to interested PMs so any thoughts on that will be very helpful.