ARG Gasm

[BabylonHoruv]

Can't find the thread for it, not sure if there is one.  And I think the idea is brilliant, so i am making a new thread.  if I am just blind I apologize.

I only just discovered what an ARG is recently, so if I am describing it wrong do please correct. (stands for Augmented Reality Game)

Basically an ARG is like a roleplaying game, but you play it in your regular life.  You get e-mails, receive phone calls, and whatnot, and are instructed to do things.  The idea i saw being discussed (don't remember where) was to have an ARG in which the participants are part of a scret conspiracy.  They could elave one another coded messages, do strange things that seem pointless, but are actually part of elaborate mindfucks, etc.

If I got this wrong someone please correct me.  i think it is an awesome idea and would love to be involved in it in some way.  I have lotsa experience GMing tabletop, none as an ST for a LARP or a puppetmaster for an ARG, but I'd still love to be either a puppet master or a participant if it ends up getting up and rolling.  I am also not the worst coder in the world (just abut the third worst) so would be willing to help set up mailing lists and such for it.

[Cramulus]

see here


project fell apart due to not having enough staff to write it / run it. Perhaps a more streamlined idea was necessary. But all in all, these things take a lot of work to run, and it's a lot to ask of volunteers.

we had a private staff board over at the now missing p3nt4gr4m forums, which are inaccessable now.

[BabylonHoruv]

OK,  I read through it, looked like it stalled on takeoff.  I'm continuing posts in this thread partly because it is more about the general idea than the specific Aporia vs 5th gen game you had started to set up.

Looks like Cram and Cain are the ones most familiar with ARG's, if I could get an idea from you two what roles need filled in order to get things off the ground for one I could try to recruit people in specific.  You said five writers, what are they writing? General game story arc and the initial websites?

I am thinking maybe a game where you are an agent of the conspiracy could have an easier time growing in an organic way, that way there only needs to be enough puppet masters/administrators to run the current player base, and the overarching storyline could grow as the game does without even having to be planned out in advance.

[the last yatto]

a few games of cavinball could count as an ARGgasm


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