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ARGN: “Touch Me, I’m Perplex City”

unfiction interview with game head honcho

This looks like it’s going to be a good one. Will follow along in this space.

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idfuel article

news.com article

The first advertisement appeared in USA Today a week ago, right on schedule.

People from around the world had stayed up all night waiting for it, talking in chat rooms and online forums. It had to be a clue, they thought. Everything before it had been a clue.

“LOST. The Cube,” read the ad, posted at the top of the paper’s “Notices” section. “Reward Offered. Not only an object of great significance to the city but also a technological wonder.”

The cryptic notice, along with several subsequent ads in The New York Sun, The Times of London and Monday’s Sydney Daily Telegraph, are the first tangible signs of a mystery called “Perplex City” beginning to unfold online.

It is the latest well-funded entry in a young medium called “alternate-reality gaming”–an obsession-inspiring genre that blends real-life treasure hunting, interactive storytelling, video games and online community and may, incidentally, be one of the most powerful guerrilla marketing mechanisms ever invented.

These games are 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…

Both he and Stewart say they see the medium as a developing art form–even if it’s equivalent to moviemaking in 1903–rather than simply a convoluted promotional vehicle.

“The Internet basically is about searching for things and gossiping, and we invented a way to tell stories that’s about searching for things and gossiping,” Stewart said. “It is a much nicer way to deliver art across the platform.”

Perplex City :: Primer

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article in French

cartoon ref

cards on ebay

not sure about this one (flash)

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[13]: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14935-1376104,00.html

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