ARG Netcast, Episode 115: No Mimes Sounds Off

Posted by Jonathan Waite in March 1st 2010  
 
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Listen to the ARG NetcastOn this week’s show, co-hosts Michael Andersen, Dav Flamerock, Sean C. Stacey, Jonathan Waite and Carie Ward are joined by Behnam Karbassi, Maureen McHugh and Steve Peters of No Mimes Media for an in-depth look at their almost-year-old startup specializing in transmedia entertainment. We also cover the latest news, complete with a multitude of countdown news items. Oh, and GO CANADA GO.

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Subscribe to the ARG Netcast feed through this link or via iTunes. Contact us at our special netcast email address, netcast@argnetcast.com with your tips, suggestions, concerns and submissions. Call us on our voicemail at 347-878-7245. Watch us live every two weeks on Monday nights at 9:00 pm CT on our ARG Netcast LIVE page (stream provided by Ustream).

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The End

Posted by Jonathan Waite in February 15th 2010  

For those who weren’t listening live on February 8th, we had an announcement during episode 114 that you may not have heard yet, and that is that we are wrapping up production of the ARG Netcasts in March. While this is sad news, we consider ourselves lucky to have been a part of your lives since October of 2006. Our last shows are shaping up to be some of our very best, with scheduled guests such as No Mimes Media and Lone Sharks Games confirmed for the next two episodes.

We have three shows remaining, tentatively: February 22 (No Mimes Media), March 8 (Lone Shark Games), and the finale on March 22. We hope that you can all make it to the live shows and that you enjoy this last stretch of the podcasts.

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ARG Netcast, Episode 114: Guys In Ski Masks and Sharp Things

Posted by Jonathan Waite in February 15th 2010  
 
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Listen to the ARG NetcastOn this week’s show, co-hosts Michael Andersen, Jane Doh, Sean C. Stacey, Jonathan Waite and Carie Ward dish about various new games and projects before making two, yes TWO, huge announcements. A show you will not want to miss.

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Subscribe to the ARG Netcast feed through this link or via iTunes. Contact us at our special netcast email address, netcast@argnetcast.com with your tips, suggestions, concerns and submissions. Call us on our voicemail at 347-878-7245. Watch us live every two weeks on Monday nights at 9:00 pm CT on our ARG Netcast LIVE page (stream provided by Ustream).

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ARG Netcast, Episode 113: Junko and Julia

Posted by Jonathan Waite in January 23rd 2010  
 
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Listen to the ARG NetcastOn this week’s show, co-hosts Dav Flamerock, Sean C. Stacey, Jonathan Waite and Carie Ward kick off 2010 with a bang, discussing new games and trailheads while updating ongoing projects and responding to an email about She Stirs, aka Junko Junsui. It’s a fast-paced look at the most recent transmedia projects out there, so don’t miss it!

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My name is Patrick Marckesano, creator of She Stirs (dubbed “Junko Junsui” by fans after a character in the story). I think it’s a shame that some members of the ‘ARG community’ are so close-minded to new types of interactive experiences…

A few things should be noted:

1) Our launch was a mere teaser to a much larger project in production. And yet in a mere month we gained 6 million page views worldwide (Junko Junsui is a well known cultural meme among Chilean youth, amusingly).

2) We never set out to make an ARG. Our teaser was instead an experimental exercise hoping to accomplish several things…

A – We hoped to repurpose certain forms within electronic media and in doing so blend the line between fiction and reality. For instance, it is a fact that our Russian PMC, Alfa-Tsentr was established so convincingly online that it received earnest job inquiries from real military mercenaries as well as an invitation to visit Pyongyang from the foreign ministry of North Korea. (We were also investigated by US Army intel, Russian Interpol, the US Justice Department and other assorted government agencies during the course of our exercise.)

B – We hoped to set up an adversarial social dynamic wherein multiple sides competed against each other in a kind of intelligence / counterintelligence warfare. This ethos obviously contradicts the ‘massive pool’ of information found typically in ARGs and such dynamic will play a heavy role in our forthcoming release. You see, we have a novel way of repurposing the entire Internet. No more, “in-game” or “out-of-game”. The player opts in, and then the game takes over, sometimes when they least suspect it.

If any of this sounds interesting to you, an English blogger did some pretty impressive subject-focused postings on events which transpired during our teaser…

http://thejunsui.wordpress.com/

I cannot say too much more other than we have something in the works that goes way beyond current ARGs or social games. And yet there are elements from both that one might recognize in our new synthesis. Furthermore, we have the involvement of some major players in the gaming, film, music, and internet technology industries. This is not another promotion for a preexisting film or video game. Rather we are devising a way to sustain major budget, original story productions within the online medium.

Happy New Year!

Regards,
Patrick Marckesano

Subscribe to the ARG Netcast feed through this link or via iTunes. Contact us at our special netcast email address, netcast@argnetcast.com with your tips, suggestions, concerns and submissions. Call us on our voicemail at 347-878-7245. Watch us live every two weeks on Monday nights at 9:00 pm CT on our ARG Netcast LIVE page (stream provided by Ustream).

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