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 looked like it was taken at one of those test-sessions. Furthermore there were encrypted and handwritten post it notes on some of the documents, that lead to the website Die-Zeit-Wird-Knapp.de, where a strange green image was shown as well as a countdown.
The countdown will end tomorrow evening at 6 p.m. German local time, but what will happen then? Read more ...
We have had some nice ARGR Get-2-Gether during the past months and we are always happy to meet some new members at these meetings. There are always great discussions and lots of questions like "Where do I have to register to get informed about the beginning of a new Alternate Reality Game?"
Usually the answer to this question was: Please have a look at the common websites and forums that deal with alternate reality games, such as ARGN.com or our website
. Now there is a new chance to get involved: Read more ...
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 players?
If you want to be a pirate, too, you can register yourself on the website of the Pirates Society (www.jointhepirates.com). While you are Boarding you will be asked for an Admission Code, but don't give up hope, if you don't have an admission code, you don't need to enter one. You will be given one after the boarding-process.
This time all revolves about a young man who goes by the name of Nils von Habermann. He is a polar scientist and works for an Arctic-Institute. Therefore he had already been on one or the other expedition when he got to know about some strange contradictions and incidents. So he decided to contact a good friend, Frank Weiss, who is also working for the Arctic-Institute in Rostock. Read more ...
(Rückblick) Nach dem Ende des ARGs Um Dr. Grau und den Auserwählten fand durch Auslosung ein Gewinnspiel inklusive offline-Farbjagd in Düsseldorf statt. Dabei gab es als Hauptgewinn eine 39-tägige Weltreise zu gewinnen. Der Spieler Chrisss hat dazu unseren ARG-Reporter Dibtych (Marcus Meier) vor Ort eingeladen. Die Beiden haben live über einen Videostream von der aufregenden Farbjagd berichtet. Für diejenigen, die dieses Ereignis verpasst haben, stellt Dibtych hier noch einmal seinen Erlebnisbericht zusammen. Alle Videos, die die beiden erstellt haben kann man auf qik.com betrachten.
An einen sehr schönen, sehr frühen Samstag Morgen trafen sich Chrisss und ich wie verabredet um die Reise nach Düsseldorf anzutreten. Die Sachen waren gepackt und alles was uns davon abhielt aufzubrechen waren die letzten Schlucke Kaffee, die sich in unseren Tassen befanden. Angeregt diskutierten wir über vergangene ARGs und stellten Spekulationen an, was oder wer uns an diesen schönen Sonntag erwartet. Der einzige Kontakt, den wir bisher mit den Veranstaltern hatten war über e-Mail: Dort wurde uns offenbart, dass wir eingeladen sind und uns eine Offline-GPS-Rallye mit der Aussicht eine Weltreise zu gewinnen erwartete. Angespannt vor Aufregung genehmigten wir uns die letzten Tropfen Kaffee und stiegen ins Auto um Richtung Montabaur zu fahren, denn von dort sollte es mit den ICE weiter nach Düsseldorf gehen. Read more ...
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 kind of software that helped Tim to gain access to a weblog called friendslost.de. There Tim is able to post new finds and to keep the viewers up to date. Some unknown person is posting to that weblog, too. This person makes available some videos of Tim's friends that show what is happening to them within the last days.
In the first video we get to know Mike, his friend Nina and their friend Jenny. All three wanted to meet at a club in Berlin. There are some strange rumors in the wild about that club. So we get to know about a man called the "Fratzenmacher". Hi shall be a murderer who stalked his victims years ago at that club, before he teared of the skin of his victims faces, but all these things have been happened a long time ago. Read more ...
In einigen Minuten (21.15 Uhr) startet auf Pro7 eine neue, 10-teilige Serie. Sie entführt uns, wie der Titel bereits verrät, auf eine kleine, abgelegene Insel vor Seattle - nach Harpers Island. Eine illustre Hochzeitsgesellschaft bricht dorthin auf und wir werden schon nach kurzer Zeit Zeuge von etwas, dass sich durch die gesamte Serie hindurch fortsetzen wird - ganz so, wie uns bereits die Mädchenstimme im Vorspann glauben machen will ("One by one" - "Einer nach dem anderen").
Natürlich fragt ihr Euch jetzt zurecht, warum wir darüber berichten, denn es ist ja eine Serie und kein ARG. Das hat einen ganz einfachen Grund. In jeder Folge von Harpers Island wird es mindestens einen Mord geben. Man kann als Zuschauer also mitraten, wer der Mörder ist, der da einen nach dem anderen auf unterschiedlichsten Arten und Weisen um die Ecke bringt. Und wir wollen an dieser Stelle noch einen Schritt weiter gehen und etwas machen, was Pro7 wieder einmal völlig ausser Acht gelassen hat. Wir eröffnen nach der heutigen Folge eine wöchentliche Diskussion, wer in der nächsten Folge das nächste Opfer sein wird.
Seid ihr dabei? Wollt ihr mit nach dem Mörder oder der Mörderin suchen? Read more ...
This February, Vivien Pastiof reported back - at least with some written lines on a postcard. Many will remember her from the Alternate 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 went to a secret place somewhere on the other side of the earth to recover in secrecy.
Everybody was happy to hear from her, especially the ones that had gotten her postcard with the "Sunny greetings!" on it at the beginning of the year.
In addition to those greetings, Vivien was happy to hand over two surprises to the recipients. One of those surprises was the Sunny Side of the Lane. The other one was waiting for the players at the end of that lane. Read more ...
It's time again for a 15-Questions-Interview.
This time we asked Ken Eklund to answer our questions. He is well known for his work on World Without Oil and Ruby's Bequest and some other ARGs of course. Especially with these two he and the other puppetmasters invented a new type of Alternate Reality Game called Serious ARGs. These kind of ARGs try to concern on real world problems and topics like running out of oil and they try to find solutions to those problems.
You can find some of his latest projects at his website, which goes by the name Writerguy.com.
We are currently moving to a new server and we will give you more infos, as soon as we have done all things about that. In the meantime you can still find all the contents of our Website here.
Nach und nach festigen sich nun zu Beginn des Jahres, auch wenn wir bereits schnellen Schrittes dem Ende des Monats März entgen eilen, die Termine der in diesem Jahr anstehenden Festivals und Konferenzen, die auch für Games Developer wichtig und interessant sind.
Das SXSW (South By South West) Festival
Das SXSW Festival begann bereits am letzten Freitag, 13. März und geht noch bis zum 22. März. Dabei ist es auf drei sich mehr oder weniger überlappende Bereiche aufgeteilt, nämlich Music, Film und Interactive, von denen der letztgenannte Bereich am vergangenen Montag mit einer überdurchschnittlichen Twitter-Berichterstattung der Teilnehmer zuende ging. Read more ...
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