Alternate Reality Games (ARG)
Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), or Cross-Media Entertainment (CME), are where the game breaks out of being a dedicated application on your PC, and instead becomes a part of the world in which you live.
Since 2001, they have been breaking exciting new ground in online gaming, appearing to redefine some of the accepted rules of game development:
- virtual worlds where all the players are constantly altering the world by their actions
- characters that manifest in the real world, yet every nuance of interaction feeds back into the game
- deep stories that effortlessly suck-in the players and hold them rapt
- thousands of players at a time collaborating intensively, with no griefing
From: Welcome to the ARG SIG
Resources on Alternate Reality Games (ARG)
