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notgordian
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Accessible Archive of Past Game Summaries

Twitter recently had a fun little back and forth about the record of past games I figured it would be nice to gather some of the best resources to (relatively quickly) learn about specific past games in their entirety, or as close to it as possible. There's a lot of stuff out there, people just don't know about it.

Obviously not a comprehensive list, but I'm getting started with some of the basics/first things to come to mind. (Eventually, I might pare this down to a list of recommended resources per game, but I'm not sure I'm ready to invest that much time in this idea yet)

ARGhive
The granddaddy of game archives, this has The Beast/Cloudmakers, Lockjaw, Metacortex, Push, Nevada, and Chasing the Fish (which I presume was a Dave S project). I think it was originally intended to be the go-to resource for this kind of thing, but that was a bit before my time.

Wonderweasels
Narrative-form play-by-plays of game events for games including I Love Bees, Holomove, Charlotte is Becoming Real, Monster Hunter Club, and Must Love Robots. The I Love Bees reference in particular is about as comprehensive as they come, walking you through every step of gameplay.

Alert Vulcan Video summary
Probably the most succinct and comprehensive fan-created game summary I've come across.

Perplex City Wiki
An extremely well put-together wiki documenting what still might be the longest consistently running ARG to date.

Vanishing Point Wiki
No offense intended to current wiki-managers, but Brian Enigma's wikis are works of art.

Despoiler wikis
For games like Deus City (I modeled the format of that wiki off Brian Enigma's work), Case of the Coveted Bottle, Silver Ladder, and Chain Factor

Wikibruce.com
For games like Go Forth, District 9, Ditch the Tech, Citizens of Virtue, The Lost Ring, and Project Abraham

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:33 pm

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I can't see it from where I'm at, but is the Cloudmakers's site for The Beast up?

http://www.cloudmakers.org/

Really doesn't get more comprehensive than that.

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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 1:00 pm

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