The problem I have with alternate reality games is that I love the ideas behind them, and would love to play one, but I'm way too dumb to ever even realise if I was.
You would think, but I tried teaching my American Government class about the dynamics of the two party system by creating an ARG about a conspiracy theory that Democratic elites were part of an adrenochrome-drinking cult, and well...
@@GrifoStelle Class work is formulaic and uninteresting, BUT if presented as something as intricate and interesting, then students will be more likely to engage. Difficulty is a factor but of course thats another thing.
SCIPR Animates Regular games are contained, safe, secure. ARGs bring the real world into play, the real, terrifying, dark, world. Most of all, where it leads to is unknown. We hide our most precious valuables in safe storage... But we hide away the monsters of the world behind even tighter locks... And what greater lock is there than an ARG? Veiled in the most cryptic and vague, and seemingly normal things... the things that surround our daily lives... For them to suddenly becomes locks to hold the doors to things we should not see? Truly, fear is the human reaction. Curiosity kills the cat. Oh, and don't worry, I know what you're thinking. No, this comment isn't a path to a new ARG. Simply a statement. Besides, I'm nowhere near brilliant enough to make one of those damn things.
°∆° That was...very vague and descriptive. And what you said was very true; ARGs can be in the most simple things, and those things can hide dark and disturbing things. That's why I will never try to participate and/or watch anything related to an ARG! Also, I'm just a kid. I would never be able to figure out an ARG even with help :P
The ARG is fascinating, not least of all because it forces multiple individuals to work together and think of every solution, none of which occcur to most people naturally.
Don't Starve did this. You had to find a bunch of stuff in the game's source code, go to a bunch of websites, do a bunch of stuff, and you'll find information on Maxwell's past.
What i find scary is that something related to an ARG, for example for some reason a certain abandoned closet from years ago which had already the next steps, WHICH MAKES US QUESTION IF THIS WAS ALWAYS PLANNED
What if the conspiracy theorists are really playing an extended ARG, with a complicated code language, composed of nonsensical youtube comments, rage-filled argumentation, and public "truth speaking", and all of them are so engrossed in the game that they refuse to let anyone else in on it?
hagamapama You were about 6 months too late bro^^ Then again, with my illuminati contacts you never had a chance. #connections #AllHailTheLizardOverlords
I've always experienced Alternate Reality Games in the third person. Maybe I'm not hip to what's going on, but it kind of makes me sad to know that I'll never catch this stuff when it's happening. Are most people in this boat?
There are tons of small channels who start a bunch of them but they're usually pretty hard to find. Especially when they're just starting out. Buuuuut there are opportunities to find small channels who are starting them *wink wink wink wink wink violent wink*
Alternate reality games to them: a scavenger hunt to bring people together and finish puzzles Alternate reality games to everyone: I WALKED DOWNSTAIRS AND WHEN I GOT TO THE BOTTOM, INSTEAD OF PROCEEDING, I TURNED THE RIGHT AND BECAME A SHADOW MONSTER MAN
I love how good stories tie everything together. Look at the "strange phenomena" at 1:45. It's a modified version of the Nine Inch Nails album "Year Zero". The site was found on a Nine Inch Nails shirt. Everything comes back. It should also be noted that Nine Inch Nails had a lot to do with the game.
I want an ARG-slash-adventure crossover that uses hidden AR codes and numerical values to access more narrative of the game. Or maybe just like Pokemon only that you actually explore and hunt for the codes.
Yea, I remember looking through all the sstv images and realizing a bunch of them had 4 numbers each and when I put all the numbers in order, it turned out to be an MD5 which decoded to the valve BBS number. I translated all the morse code too... but figuring out the BBS number was a bigger accomplishment to me.
This kind of reminds me of the Cipher Hunt, when Alex Hirsch decided to send Gravity Falls fans on a worldwide scavenger hunt to locate a statue of Bill Cipher. It was really similar to an ARG, and I had a lot of fun following it.
Guys, I found an ARG... I think... I bought a book on Amazon yesterday and it leads to a website about missions and stuff. I bought the book, because of its weird description, and now the website says I need a team of players. The book is called: The space you find. Author: Decimus Glow. I don't know what it is.
oh my god i love these seemingly impossible internet puzzles that require an entire community to advance only a single step in a constantly growing, even bigger puzzle
Year Zero is for this games system called IRL, you should look it up. It is a good games system. It runs everything very fast and has the highest graphics capability ever. Hope that answered your question.
The [ilovebees] phone call in Hurricane Ivan was interesting in that, as a player tried to answer the live call, the Puppet Master (puppetmaster 2; game developer I think) broke character. He said, "Dude, you're in a hurricane. Put the phone down."
I wonder what would have happened if the game developer who made the payphone puzzle that got caught in a hurricane would do if the payphone was destroyed. Would they come out and say, "there's no way we could stop a hurricane and it ruined the whole puzzle, do you guys want to try again?" It would ruin the whole idea and purpose of the puzzles, but if one piece was destroyed, it would be impossible to solve and everything would go to waste. Maybe they could have found an interesting way to provide people who solved the first puzzles with a new one to replace the phone one and find a way to work an apology and quick explanation of what happened into it once they realized the payphone got destroyed and disconnected. What do you guys think?
although this is a very old video, if you guys see this i have seen one of the first arg integrated with a game, although it might not be the first. Its for infamous second son, and its called paper trail, where you have to do things inside the game to gain more info on the computer, and vice versa until you break a mystery. I wont spoil anything though, so just play it for yourself
I would be really interested to hear some ideas on how ARGs could be used in an educational setting! currently studying to become a history teacher and ARGs would certainly make students more interested in historical topics. however, I don't feel entirely comfortable presenting such ARGs as "reality" to children, as they might have troubles distinguishing the game from reality.
Extra Credits One amazing example of this "gamification" you were talking about is a game called "Fold It" which helps AIDS research by letting players fold protein sequences which already led to a huge research succes in 2011 :D
4:00 this concept has actually been used before, in games like Fold It (go look it up) where a game is made to simulate the folding of a strand of RNA, and each puzzle solved has real world implications for real scientists.
The Slenderverse also, if you can get past the fact that the Slenderman is used. They started back when he was popular and aren't wholly centred around him. You might enjoy them. MarbleHornets, EverymanHYBRID and TribeTwelve are the most popular (no doubt you've heard of MH.)
3:40: Isn't this basically what the game of protein folding did a few years back? It was something to do with some virus/cancer drug or something of that sort, and how some proteins could be folded. A game of folding proteins was constructed, with the final puzzle being that which the science community had been trying to solve for months. After the release it was solved within days by the players.
Interesting, I first saw this on an Anime called Robotics;Notes, where, in a near future the main character plays a game that is both types of ARG, using his augmented reality tablet. And discovers that It might not be just a game. Pretty interesting and make me thing "that would be very cool" now I know it does exists!! I'm getting into it right now,
After watching this video for the first time in 2012, I actually got involved with an ARG (people who did it, know which one I'm talking about) myself and my god was it fun. This episode also gave me a compulsion to research ARGs, however sadly I couldn't find reliable sources for nearly any of them! Which sucks! I would honestly LOVE it if someone to document or retell in a video / documentary the events of Ilovebees, The Beast or Year Zero, From someone who was actually there. In fact, if any of you reading this took place in one of these events reply to me, I'd really like to know what it was like!
don't forget those Portal 2 ARGs they did, with the sound files that had to be decoded multiple times, like, static > numbers > random letters > morse code, which spelled out L O L
Wait a minute, what's this at 4:52 about "Documentary games", that sounds pretty interesting. I did a quick search but only found documentaries about games. You don't seem to have a video about it either. The only thing I can think that's sounds like it are those interactive multimedia CDs that was popular in the mid nineties before the internet largely replaced them as a source of information.
Not even the call that happened in Florida during a hurricane? God I hope there is a video or recording or something of that scene, and I want to see it. That is amazing.
So me and my friend and his friend are making a alternative reality game and it’s called let’s help sunny. It’s sunflower themed and each petal is a puzzle if anyone has ideas let me know because honestly I had no idea these existed until now
I did try to make an ARG with creative idea towards my personal art and mixing, but the problem is that my subscriber or viewer doesn't even notice a simple code, nor notice the simple puzzle right in front of my puzzle, Most of my subscribers or viewer were children, I still like the idea and I kept using it, How do I get people noticing my arg stuff I been putting a lot of effort towards the story
By definition, yes. Not the physical world, but there was stuff that had to be done outside of the game. The collection of banana errors and the jokes for example. All the compilation of those and stringing together the MD5 hashes was technically done in the real world.
I think the rubick’s cube at 1:25 makes sense from the angle in this picture. I don’t see any configuration obviously inconsistent between it and an actual rubick’s cube. If anyone finds something, let me know. I was hoping to see a messed up one, but perhaps someone used a real cube to model this after. Or maybe they’re a cubist themselves realizing how easy it would be to make a bad re-creation.
My ARG will be about Voxel and his friends attempting to contact humans, this involve solving Rubik’s cubes, following posters, and finding a flash drive at my house!
One of my constant frustrations with the gaming community at large is the lack of appreciation for Nazi-Zombies from it's debut in CoD: World at War. For a game that came out of left field and the utter lack of information as to why and how this thing was happening the game play was obviously viable and the story line was something that could only be pieced together through ARG components like finding a series of easter eggs that babble out a series of numbers that when google searched showed the location of the next map, but what's more looking into the history of this location in correlation to random sound bites from characters belying the reason for the setting and foothold in real world history. While probably not being completely ARG because most of the pieces eventually lead back in house, It's a shining diamond in torrent of repetitive game play that are FPS's like CoD, the type of thing no one would expect, let alone to be hidden in something as ridiculously hyperbolic as something called Nazi Zombies. The first time i was introduced to it, I laughed and dismissed it not having an inkling for what I was about to get myself into.
i found a new arg called "like eyes" it was made TODAY so its very new, they talk in the description, because they are new, they are hard to find, i have a G+ comunnity called "solving like eyes" it has his first video there so you can get to his channel i hope this turns out amazing
They said that James was fleshing out his plans on ARG's in an educational environment but I can't find that there was ever an episode on ARG's in the classroom.
there's a fine line between madness and creativity, because you have to be somewhat insane to understand surreal concepts that interferes with your sense of logic. have you also noticed how many artists of various kinds are prone to suicide compared to accountants? that's because they are slightly more insane in order to produce creative content.
The problem I have with alternate reality games is that I love the ideas behind them, and would love to play one, but I'm way too dumb to ever even realise if I was.
Maybe you already were in one!!! DUN DUN DUN!
Khadharphak Can I join the club?
Khadharphak There are ARG that only need a download of the app store, like Ingress =)
MsL4Vi isn't that an _Augmented_ Reality Game?
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The idea of a teacher giving a lesson through ARG is just too awesome
through? Like solve a math page to get the secret code to a english writing?
@@wasteofgooglesspace that would be dope
You would think, but I tried teaching my American Government class about the dynamics of the two party system by creating an ARG about a conspiracy theory that Democratic elites were part of an adrenochrome-drinking cult, and well...
It's hard enough to get students to look at the class work, how will you get them to notice an obscure code?
@@GrifoStelle Class work is formulaic and uninteresting, BUT if presented as something as intricate and interesting, then students will be more likely to engage. Difficulty is a factor but of course thats another thing.
Arg's are like being in a movie, and you feel so awesome whilst playing them. Makes you feel like you are part of something so much bigger.
In other words, Alternate Reality Games are the biggest version of a scavenger hunt.
was about to say that
With added story
Saved me time don't have to watch the video now LOL
Kinda
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For some reason, ARGs creep me out
SCIPR Animates Regular games are contained, safe, secure.
ARGs bring the real world into play, the real, terrifying, dark, world. Most of all, where it leads to is unknown.
We hide our most precious valuables in safe storage... But we hide away the monsters of the world behind even tighter locks...
And what greater lock is there than an ARG? Veiled in the most cryptic and vague, and seemingly normal things... the things that surround our daily lives...
For them to suddenly becomes locks to hold the doors to things we should not see? Truly, fear is the human reaction. Curiosity kills the cat.
Oh, and don't worry, I know what you're thinking. No, this comment isn't a path to a new ARG. Simply a statement. Besides, I'm nowhere near brilliant enough to make one of those damn things.
°∆° That was...very vague and descriptive. And what you said was very true; ARGs can be in the most simple things, and those things can hide dark and disturbing things. That's why I will never try to participate and/or watch anything related to an ARG! Also, I'm just a kid. I would never be able to figure out an ARG even with help :P
Don't worry, it's not a new ARG. The letters at the beginning of every line is "RAW AF OB"
thats why most are horror
Lots of ARGs are made to be horror
The ARG is fascinating, not least of all because it forces multiple individuals to work together and think of every solution, none of which occcur to most people naturally.
DANG shout out to the person that went to that payphone in the middle of a F!$@##$#KING HURRICANE
jallday foster yesss
"Dude. It's a freaking hurricane.
Put the phone down."
That's just normal Floridian behavior
@@yardenb8806 I dont live in florida, but i have no doubts a floridian would never skip a beat to do this
Shout out to the person that went to florida.
Don't Starve did this.
You had to find a bunch of stuff in the game's source code, go to a bunch of websites, do a bunch of stuff, and you'll find information on Maxwell's past.
Yup. It was neat.
What i find scary is that something related to an ARG, for example for some reason a certain abandoned closet from years ago which had already the next steps, WHICH MAKES US QUESTION IF THIS WAS ALWAYS PLANNED
What if the conspiracy theorists are really playing an extended ARG, with a complicated code language, composed of nonsensical youtube comments, rage-filled argumentation, and public "truth speaking", and all of them are so engrossed in the game that they refuse to let anyone else in on it?
Best comment ever
***** you got that right
Dangit I was gonna post the same thing :p
hagamapama You were about 6 months too late bro^^ Then again, with my illuminati contacts you never had a chance. #connections #AllHailTheLizardOverlords
too deep.
I've always experienced Alternate Reality Games in the third person. Maybe I'm not hip to what's going on, but it kind of makes me sad to know that I'll never catch this stuff when it's happening. Are most people in this boat?
yep, same. i’m in the catastrophe crow 64 discord but physically cant contribute due to how much i don’t know
Yes Same! I would love to at least try but I always learn about them months afterwards/ after they’re solved :(
Yeah it's super annoying.
We steveee fans cracked his arg, looks like he’s forced to post videos
There are tons of small channels who start a bunch of them but they're usually pretty hard to find. Especially when they're just starting out. Buuuuut there are opportunities to find small channels who are starting them *wink wink wink wink wink violent wink*
I love ARG’s, wish I was smart enough to follow one from the start :’)
I may start one but im still pretty young. I realky love mysteries and also, if i do make one, do u have tips?
"Not even the one in Florida, during a hurricane."
Yep, should like Florida.
Alternate reality games to them: a scavenger hunt to bring people together and finish puzzles
Alternate reality games to everyone: I WALKED DOWNSTAIRS AND WHEN I GOT TO THE BOTTOM, INSTEAD OF PROCEEDING, I TURNED THE RIGHT AND BECAME A SHADOW MONSTER MAN
I love how good stories tie everything together.
Look at the "strange phenomena" at 1:45. It's a modified version of the Nine Inch Nails album "Year Zero". The site was found on a Nine Inch Nails shirt. Everything comes back.
It should also be noted that Nine Inch Nails had a lot to do with the game.
Cicada 3301 could be consideed a ARG then?
Cicada 3301 is an Augmented Reality Game.
Non-cooperative (working alone) ARG’s are often used by companies to see who’s smart enough to work for them
I want an ARG-slash-adventure crossover that uses hidden AR codes and numerical values to access more narrative of the game.
Or maybe just like Pokemon only that you actually explore and hunt for the codes.
this teamwork can cure freaking cancer
I find it odd that our college professor has linked us these videos. This is gonna be interesting.
Oop tell us what happened
🔥 🔥TELL US 🔥 🔥
TELL US
TELL US
TELL US!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone looking for Sombra clues in Overwatch. Blizzard are very sneaky.
YEAH
*Analyses comment* I am not a part of the ARG, but I am checking.
He Will Not Divide US kind of turned into a Capture the Flag ARG.
Yea, I remember looking through all the sstv images and realizing a bunch of them had 4 numbers each and when I put all the numbers in order, it turned out to be an MD5 which decoded to the valve BBS number.
I translated all the morse code too... but figuring out the BBS number was a bigger accomplishment to me.
The tl;dr of this video being - Nine Inch Nails loves to fuck with their fans.
This kind of reminds me of the Cipher Hunt, when Alex Hirsch decided to send Gravity Falls fans on a worldwide scavenger hunt to locate a statue of Bill Cipher. It was really similar to an ARG, and I had a lot of fun following it.
Foldit is an incredible example of this it shows what good things similar to this can do.
Guys, I found an ARG... I think... I bought a book on Amazon yesterday and it leads to a website about missions and stuff. I bought the book, because of its weird description, and now the website says I need a team of players. The book is called: The space you find. Author: Decimus Glow. I don't know what it is.
Website URL?
I found the book on goodreads, but there is no way to buy or view the book. Any update on the link?
Dude just started an arg. Come on, where are you! reply back!
i love the idea of args so much but i dont know where to start
@@zero5437
oh my god i love these seemingly impossible internet puzzles that require an entire community to advance only a single step in a constantly growing, even bigger puzzle
Year Zero is for this games system called IRL, you should look it up. It is a good games system. It runs everything very fast and has the highest graphics capability ever. Hope that answered your question.
The [ilovebees] phone call in Hurricane Ivan was interesting in that, as a player tried to answer the live call, the Puppet Master (puppetmaster 2; game developer I think) broke character. He said, "Dude, you're in a hurricane. Put the phone down."
I wonder what would have happened if the game developer who made the payphone puzzle that got caught in a hurricane would do if the payphone was destroyed. Would they come out and say, "there's no way we could stop a hurricane and it ruined the whole puzzle, do you guys want to try again?" It would ruin the whole idea and purpose of the puzzles, but if one piece was destroyed, it would be impossible to solve and everything would go to waste. Maybe they could have found an interesting way to provide people who solved the first puzzles with a new one to replace the phone one and find a way to work an apology and quick explanation of what happened into it once they realized the payphone got destroyed and disconnected. What do you guys think?
I love A.R.G's! it's a shame that I don't have the time or I'm not in the right place for those, but it's fun watching videos explain the A.R.G's.
I’m in the same boat as you bro
hey i’m making an arg that is pretty easy to solve, u don’t have to go on any websites
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I absolutely love how on the nose this was nine years ago, here in 2022.
Byzantium's website was also fascinating. It's down now but it was very engaging, and there was an ending twist that blew my freaking mind.
A MEME channel made an alternate reality game.
Oh How I wish I was joking.
I think that's awesome, as it's so unexpected
Siivagunner. Look up The Reboot of Siivagunner, or look it up on reddit. I'm sure you'll find it.
+Chiki Char (oisin4134) g r a n d d a d
Silvagunner?
@@door9520 It's SiIvagunner, not Silvagunner.
although this is a very old video, if you guys see this i have seen one of the first arg integrated with a game, although it might not be the first. Its for infamous second son, and its called paper trail, where you have to do things inside the game to gain more info on the computer, and vice versa until you break a mystery. I wont spoil anything though, so just play it for yourself
I love paper trail. I just wish you could get Celia's power
Maybe Cicada is an ARG.
It IS a ARG
Its an argunented reality game
I would be really interested to hear some ideas on how ARGs could be used in an educational setting! currently studying to become a history teacher and ARGs would certainly make students more interested in historical topics. however, I don't feel entirely comfortable presenting such ARGs as "reality" to children, as they might have troubles distinguishing the game from reality.
Extra Credits One amazing example of this "gamification" you were talking about is a game called "Fold It" which helps AIDS research by letting players fold protein sequences which already led to a huge research succes in 2011 :D
And they didn't even mention the game in 2010 that solved a complicated protein cutting enzyme's molecular structure?
What game was this??
which game?
122122 views...
It will open a portal to another dimension right now !
The crazy thing is while I'm watching this theres 280,280 views.
The craziest thing is as I'm watching this video theres 309,938 views
"In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun and snap! The job's a game." - Mary Poppins
MY MIND IS NOW SPLATTERED ALL OVER THE WAAAAAALLLLL!!!!!
ALL. OVER. THE. WWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!
BOOM!
I wanna participate in one now. The only problem is they're not marketed and you have to stumble upon them
@@fishwalksonwater if you don’t mind horror, look up Local 58. Or Crow 64, or TheSunVanished.
@@kycool8684 Are they solved or currently running?
@@zero5437 solved I think, but here’s two current ones.
Monument Mythos
The SpongeBob Conspiracy Theory
Yes, yes I am in fact an Earthbound fan believe it or not...
wow I would have never guessed :D
are you sure about that nessonett8
hell, what am i talking about. im giygas's nipples
Giygas-nipples
I don't even know what I am.
I think you are Ness, but with more '90s.
Though I have a TF2 picture, EarthBound is my favorite game.
psi.... STARSTORM!!!!!
4:00 this concept has actually been used before, in games like Fold It (go look it up) where a game is made to simulate the folding of a strand of RNA, and each puzzle solved has real world implications for real scientists.
This video blew my mind.
I love Earthbound! One of my favorite games ever.
Coding With Gwen Right now I'm thinking this comment may be a hint for an Arg, I don't know why. Must be my paranoia
aww man i love arg's! my first experience with one was the binding of isaac afterbirth one.
I am with so many of you right now
The Slenderverse also, if you can get past the fact that the Slenderman is used. They started back when he was popular and aren't wholly centred around him. You might enjoy them. MarbleHornets, EverymanHYBRID and TribeTwelve are the most popular (no doubt you've heard of MH.)
RawkHawkMcGawk『Deezy』 EVERYMANHYBRID is my absolute favorite arg. Specifically because of the antagonist. (You know which one ;))
TurretVista he was fucking savage
3:40: Isn't this basically what the game of protein folding did a few years back? It was something to do with some virus/cancer drug or something of that sort, and how some proteins could be folded. A game of folding proteins was constructed, with the final puzzle being that which the science community had been trying to solve for months. After the release it was solved within days by the players.
2:45
This is why I love ARG's. xD
Interesting, I first saw this on an Anime called Robotics;Notes, where, in a near future the main character plays a game that is both types of ARG, using his augmented reality tablet. And discovers that It might not be just a game.
Pretty interesting and make me thing "that would be very cool" now I know it does exists!! I'm getting into it right now,
It's actually pretty genius. The only people that find the game are by definition the type of people that will love the game.
My God: the phone call thing is GENIUS!
lol, love the Total Recall image with the "2 weeks" reference. :D
This stuff is crazy. Such a trippy idea.
Randomly found this video today and at 3:46 you show a map of my hometown, portland. Wild.
This kind of thing seems fun. Sure it is mainly commercial, but decoding hidden messages and following a path seems really awesome.
After watching this video for the first time in 2012, I actually got involved with an ARG (people who did it, know which one I'm talking about) myself and my god was it fun. This episode also gave me a compulsion to research ARGs, however sadly I couldn't find reliable sources for nearly any of them! Which sucks! I would honestly LOVE it if someone to document or retell in a video / documentary the events of Ilovebees, The Beast or Year Zero, From someone who was actually there. In fact, if any of you reading this took place in one of these events reply to me, I'd really like to know what it was like!
Jimothy Christoween EverymanHYBRID?
SPARG was one of my fvaorite args i have participated in. It was soooo cool.
ARGs, the only multiplayer game I can play without my high latency connection messing me up.
Did you ever put out the ARGs in an educational environment episode? I'd love to see that one.
I think they might have..
Ingress...pretty amazing
Pokemon Go! is going to reveal that sort of madness from everyone.
don't forget those Portal 2 ARGs they did, with the sound files that had to be decoded multiple times, like, static > numbers > random letters > morse code, which spelled out L O L
Wait a minute, what's this at 4:52 about "Documentary games", that sounds pretty interesting. I did a quick search but only found documentaries about games. You don't seem to have a video about it either. The only thing I can think that's sounds like it are those interactive multimedia CDs that was popular in the mid nineties before the internet largely replaced them as a source of information.
The name of that game was "The cat and the Coup"
Not even the call that happened in Florida during a hurricane? God I hope there is a video or recording or something of that scene, and I want to see it. That is amazing.
From what i've heard, the operator told the caller "Dude, it's a hurricane. Put the phone down."
I am so glad he brought up the I love bees game from Halo, I feel like nobody else knows about it, and I couldn’t remember the name!
You're blowing my mind here! O_O
I had no clue things like this even existed! I guess I'm a player now?
So me and my friend and his friend are making a alternative reality game and it’s called let’s help sunny. It’s sunflower themed and each petal is a puzzle if anyone has ideas let me know because honestly I had no idea these existed until now
Who else came here after the "sun vanished" guy on twitter??
I came after ryoma
ARG's sound epic i can't believe i've never heard of them.
It’s so surreal what I see on tiktok with these it’s like they say there is no one around and there really isn’t it’s like so crazy……
I am blown away I want one of these to happen in my country now!
So... Ingress is both, right?
Alternate and Augmented reality games were how I got into Ingress. Too bad there was no events nearby.
Thank you! This was very informative!
extra credits is timeless
I did try to make an ARG with creative idea towards my personal art and mixing, but the problem is that my subscriber or viewer doesn't even notice a simple code, nor notice the simple puzzle right in front of my puzzle, Most of my subscribers or viewer were children, I still like the idea and I kept using it, How do I get people noticing my arg stuff I been putting a lot of effort towards the story
By definition, yes. Not the physical world, but there was stuff that had to be done outside of the game. The collection of banana errors and the jokes for example. All the compilation of those and stringing together the MD5 hashes was technically done in the real world.
I think the rubick’s cube at 1:25 makes sense from the angle in this picture. I don’t see any configuration obviously inconsistent between it and an actual rubick’s cube. If anyone finds something, let me know. I was hoping to see a messed up one, but perhaps someone used a real cube to model this after. Or maybe they’re a cubist themselves realizing how easy it would be to make a bad re-creation.
My ARG will be about Voxel and his friends attempting to contact humans, this involve solving Rubik’s cubes, following posters, and finding a flash drive at my house!
One of my constant frustrations with the gaming community at large is the lack of appreciation for Nazi-Zombies from it's debut in CoD: World at War. For a game that came out of left field and the utter lack of information as to why and how this thing was happening the game play was obviously viable and the story line was something that could only be pieced together through ARG components like finding a series of easter eggs that babble out a series of numbers that when google searched showed the location of the next map, but what's more looking into the history of this location in correlation to random sound bites from characters belying the reason for the setting and foothold in real world history. While probably not being completely ARG because most of the pieces eventually lead back in house, It's a shining diamond in torrent of repetitive game play that are FPS's like CoD, the type of thing no one would expect, let alone to be hidden in something as ridiculously hyperbolic as something called Nazi Zombies. The first time i was introduced to it, I laughed and dismissed it not having an inkling for what I was about to get myself into.
Kingdom of Loathing and The Secret World both do this to hide optional content. Neopets did a few times, too.
i found a new arg called "like eyes" it was made TODAY so its very new, they talk in the description, because they are new, they are hard to find, i have a G+ comunnity called "solving like eyes" it has his first video there so you can get to his channel i hope this turns out amazing
The big one that's going on right now is The Secret World ARG. Look it up and enjoy.
I just couldn't stop grinning about half way through this one.
It would be great if you make an episode about ARG, How it has evolved since and also because now augmented reality games are called AR.
That outro music is the Flying Man theme from Earthbound, in case anybody is interested.
Jadusable's "Ben Drowned" was pretty awesome c:
***** How isn't it an ARG?
***** It was.
***** You mean the haunted cardrige? Of course not, but we aren't talking about if it is a video game, it was an ARG. An ARG isn't a video game.
***** Of course you don't, the ARG is over (or paused) since 2011!
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mannn this is mind boggling....i feel like its an ARG spawning from this video with all those random pictures
Marble Hornets/ECKVAnet is a pretty lit and creepy ARG and there's another I found intriguing, but I forgot the name
They said that James was fleshing out his plans on ARG's in an educational environment but I can't find that there was ever an episode on ARG's in the classroom.
Took the words right out of my mouth!
From the moment you stated that "the players know the truth" I immediately thought of The Secret World.
Lel, I'm pretty sure the Secret Worlds is loaded with ARGs.
If you are planning on making an ARG, use Drawception as a website to jump too.
I LOVE the outro music, my god...
ARG sounds interesting, too bad i'm too dumb to play it (i'm even struggling to complete Little Nightmares's puzzle)
there's a fine line between madness and creativity, because you have to be somewhat insane to understand surreal concepts that interferes with your sense of logic. have you also noticed how many artists of various kinds are prone to suicide compared to accountants? that's because they are slightly more insane in order to produce creative content.