On this week’s show, special guests Brooke Thompson (giantmice.com) and Lewis Murphy join host Steve Peters (No Mimes Media) as they discuss Alternate Reality Games as depicted on TV, serious game contender Conspiracy for Good, the Lost Finale and more!
Links from this week’s show:
- Conspiracy for Good
http://www.conspiracyforgood.com
http://x0l.nu
http://conspiracyforgood.com/thelist/show/225
http://www.street-child.co.uk
http://conspiracyforgood.com/thelist - Castle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(TV_series)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3pdj9p6yI
http://www.hulu.com/watch/148520/castle-a-deadly-game - Giant Mice: Murder by ARG
http://www.giantmice.com/archives/2010/05/murder-by-arg/ - Numb3rs: Primacy
http://www.tvsquad.com/2007/11/11/numb3rs-primacy/ - EDOC Laundry and CSI
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-05-tshirt-csi-game_x.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LAdQTCZiUM - Spooks
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mf4b - House: Epic Fail
http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/09/29/house-epic-fail/ - Cory Doctorow: Little Brother
http://craphound.com/littlebrother/download/ - Walter Jon William: This Is Not A Game
http://www.thisisnotagame.net/us/index.html - Big Bang Theory
http://www.cbs.com/primetime/big_bang_theory/ - FlashForward
http://abc.go.com/shows/flash-forward - ReGenesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReGenesis - The Last Newhart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McVWkGWMHKI - Heroes Evolutions
http://www.nbc.com/heroes/evolutions/ - Harpers Island
http://www.argn.com/tag/harpers_island/ - Dunder Mifflin Infinity
http://www.dundermifflininfinity.com/ - Young and the Restless
http://www.cbs.com/daytime/the_young_and_the_restless/ - ARGFest 2010
http://2010.argfestocon.com/ - Superdarky
http://www.youtube.com/supradarky - Woof Social Networking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytc9-wGCHW0 - Brooke’s Wisdom
http://wisdom.giantmice.com/ - Fallen London
http://www.fallenlondon.com
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3 Comments Received
May 26th, 2010 @1:18 am
Interesting podcast, I particularly enjoyed the discussion around Conspiracy for Good, it’s really good to see alternative mechanisms for serious ARGs to the ‘homework’ style (hope that name doesn’t stick
) that Brooke mentioned. They do a great job of raising awareness of causes and issues (and also of ARGs in general), but perhaps less well with tangible real-world outcomes.
I’ve been wondering how Conspiracy for Good will quantify their success at the end? Awareness is fairly easy to do, you can count players, attendence at events, press coverage and page views, but in terms of tangible real-world outcomes (awareness being fuzzy and ephemeral) would it be the number of volunteers that charities get through the project? Probably a tiny number compared to the number of players (though even 1 is wonderful). The concern for me is that if they don’t get the volunteers then they could be considered to have failed in their remit and ARGs again become less attractive to charities.
I’m assuming that the events will involve doing something good too – are they going to be Cruel 2 B Kind type make someone happy good things, or raise cold, hard, cash good things?
May 26th, 2010 @5:05 pm
It’s my understanding that it’s going to be more of a, well, tangible good things. I’m actually hoping to get someone from the game to come on a netcast later in the summer to talk about the project.
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