14. May 2013

Hi there! I’m currently doing some research on ARGs for my PhD Thesis at Royal Holloway, University of London, and ARGReporter have kindly let me share this research with subscribers. The main focus of my thesis is promotional ARGs for movies and the relationship between players and puppetmasters of those particular games. My MA dissertation looked at...

07. Apr 2012

This summer, the Transmedia L.A. Group will bring us an educative Alternate Reality Game called „The Miracle Mile Paradox“. The Los Angeles based Transmedia Storytelling Group Transmedia LA meets on a regularly basis similar to our Berlin based Transmedia Storytelling group. After meetings with experts and talks they decided to bring in another aspect of...

12. May 2010

This time we welcome David Varela to our 15 Questions interview. Most of you will suspect now, that he will give us some insights of the work behind the curtain of Perplex City, like Andrea did in our previous interview. Others already know that he sometimes walks over the Playstation Home Plaza just to meet with the players of Xi. What other little secrets...

28. Apr 2010

Some of you already know Andrea Phillips as a puppetmaster from ARGs like Perplex City or the 2012 Experience. Others know her, because she is currently in lead of the Special Interest Group “Alternate Reality Games” of the International Game Developers Association. And if you want to get to know her better, than you’ll have to read our 15...

22. Feb 2010

During the last days and weeks more and more people reported that they had received large envelopes in their mail boxes. In these envelopes they found data sheets of different persons that had been tested on paranormal abilities. These data sheets included analytical reports of the test candidates, different brain- and awareness-tests and a filmstrip that...

28. Oct 2009

Now we have the absolute certainty that the Pirates Society is back and they are gathering their strength again. It appears that the 48ers have formed up again, too, planning their next “big thing”. What are they really up to? What dark plans are they concoting this time? Can the Pirates Society stopp the 48ers once more with the help of the...

17. Sep 2009

When have you seen your friends lately? Alive? It was a few days ago when Tim saw his friends for the last time. Since then his friends have gone missing and left him without many traces where he can search for them. Someone unknown placed an envelope in front of Tim’s door. In the envelope there was a note reading “Kill Your Darling” and some...

12. Jul 2009

This February, Vivien Pastiof reported back – at least with some written lines on a postcard. Many will remember her from theAlternate Reality Game Final Mill, which went live a year ago in February. After the ARG was over, she went away to get over and recover from all the past events that had happend throughout the Alternate Reality Game. Therefore she...