=== ARGs ===

"The conspiracy in Thomas Pynchon's //The Crying of Lot 49// may be an ARG set up by Pierce Inverarity to bedevil Oedipa Maas."

about
  * [[wp>Alternate_reality_game]] and [[wp>History_of_Alternate_Reality_Games]]
  * http://www.unfiction.com/
  * http://www.argn.com/

reading
  * antecedents > http://www.igda.org/wiki/Alternate_Reality_Games_SIG/Whitepaper/Antecedents_to_Alternate_Reality_Games
  * general information [[http://www.igda.org/arg/whitepaper.html]]
  * WIRED article on 'Year Zero' > http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/magazine/16-01/ff_args
  * designing magnets
    * http://en.oreilly.com/et2008/public/schedule/detail/1570
    * http://craphound.com/etech08_Elan_Lee_Designing_Magnets.txt

games x-ref
  * i love bees
  * perplex city
  * world w/out oil
  * future calling


  * 2 pro-gaming talks by by Game-designer Jane McGonigal and Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon: http://www.wetenschap24.nl/nieuws/artikelen/2011/februari/Gamification.html
  * presentation by Jesse Schell: http://www.avantgame.com/McGonigal%20ARG%20MacArthur%20Foundation%20NOV%2004.pdf


Comments:
Alternate Reality Games are now being used as educational tools within mainstream schooling institutions to the extent that conferences are now being set up specifically for this sub-genre of game: [[http://conference.operationsleepercell.com]]

[[http://lib.fo.am/awhi_world]] is an example of a Foam experiment using ARG elements within an elementary/primary school in an economically challenged area of Auckland, NZ.