Andrew Losowsky has left the alternative reality gaming network (ARGN) to be the website designer for Last Call Poker. Never heard of alternative reality gaming? Well I have never played games(yet), but the main stream media has reported on it a good few times - anyway.
What Is Alternative Reality Gaming?"
Alternate Reality Gaming" is, according to
CNET "
an obsession inspiring genre that blends real-life treasure hunting, interactive storytelling, video games and online community".
"These games are an intensely complicated series of puzzles involving coded Web sites, real-world clues like the newspaper advertisements, phone calls in the middle of the night from game characters and more. That blend of real-world activities and a dramatic storyline has proven irresistible to many."
These games (which are usually free to play) often have a specific goal of not only involving the player with the story and/or fictional characters but of connecting them to the real world and to each other. Many game puzzles can be solved only by the collaborative efforts of multiple players, sometimes requiring one or more players to get up from their computers to go outside to find clues or other planted assets in the real world.
For more info, see
Sean Stewart's introduction and explanation of The Beast (the first mainstream Alternate Reality Game)
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