Jeu en réalité alternée (Alternate Reality Game)

Présentation des Jeux en réalité alternée

The simplest explanation of Alternate Reality Games (ARG) is that a story is fragmented over multiple locations (both real and virtual) and a community of players then work to piece the story back together.

Clues can be found in a variety of media, including: videos, classified ads, phone calls, audio files, websites, email, real-life locations and good old-fashioned snail mail. The storyline of an ARG< /a> can also be influenced by the actions of the participants.

A brief introduction to Alternative Reality Game (ARG)

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Un exemple : imbeingfollowed.com

imbeingfollowed.com : ARG réunissant les internautes de jeuxvideo.com, 4chan et Unfiction principalement, dont le(s) GM est(sont) inconnu(s). Pour plus de détails, on peut trouver un résumé français :

En avancant dans l’énigme (voir ci-dessous), nous avons compris que chaque jour, nous aurions une énigme, et ce jusqu’au 31 Octobre (ce qui fait 27 énigmes au total). La plupart du temps, c’est à 00h28 (heure française) que le site est mis à jour (parfois des mises à jours mineures apparaissent avant cette heure).

L’histoire pourrait être résumée de la façon suivante, même si nous n’en sommes pas encore certains :
Quelqu’un est poursuivi (cf nom du site) par on ne sait qui. Nous, les internautes de jv.com, 4chan et Unfiction principalement, devons l’aider à s’en sortir en lui dictant les choix à prendre. Par exemple, pour la première énigme, nous avons choisit l’est, puis le site a indiqué : “we travel east”. Le seul lien entre nous et le(s) GM est le site web.

Le GM (Game Master) n’est peut-être pas seul, et nous ne savons pas qui il est. Il semble évident qu’il/ils surveille(nt) les trois forums qui travaillent sur les énigmes.

Le 29 mars 2009, quelqu’un publie une video sur Youtube :

The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mountain Interval. 1920.

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ARGs : the game making process in five steps

Denny Unger, the owner and webmaster for www.worldworksgames.com, who also designed the cover of the book This is not a game A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming,
(Print Edition) By Dave Szulborski, “tries to summarize the process of the game as “steps,” based on his intimate knowledge of the content, presentation methods, and personal effects of the experience.

“I can break the apparent process down in five simple steps:

1) Create an interactive medium that immerses the public in an addictive, tantalizing story but keep the content restricted to certain personality types. Reveal concepts and ideas that generally represent your beliefs.

2) Along the way, feed this portion of the public information which may or may not be true about the story. (Filtration of
the idiots)

3) Those that breach the truths and untruths may pass to the next level of information. Introduce more directed and personal information. Once again reveal accurate and inaccurate information. (Further idiot filtration)

4) As this select group narrows, inject information that more specifically reveals their personal belief systems, ideals, and goals.

5) f the users ideals, beliefs and goals have been properly modified by the process or the user already fits the mold,
those persons are then accepted into the ‘fold’.”

Envie d’en savoir plus sur le monde de la réalité alternée ?

Pourquoi ne pas profiter d’un moment de libre pour visiter Perplex city ? (a long-term alternate reality game (ARG) presented by Mind Candy, a London-based development team)

Pour suivre l’actualité des nouveaux ARGs sur Twitter, voyez par exemple ARGInsider

The COP15 game : “The Climate Mystery”

Pour qui ont encore besoin de se persuader que les jeux de réalité alternée sont au coeur de l’actualité, on ne saurait trop leur conseiller de visiter le site : The climate mystery dont l’aventure commence ainsi :

What is The Climate Mystery ?

The original plan was for Axel and me to build a website about global warming and moderate it.

On September 14th, four helpers were supposed to arrive from all over Europe (we call them The Four). For 16 weeks, the idea was that they would use the site to tell YOU what they learned about the climate. The project would be complete when the COP15 Climate Summit (site en français) starts, on December 7th, 2009.

But something has gone horribly wrong.

Now, The Four have disappeared, and somebody has changed our site completely: we can still moderate the website, but we do not seem to have any control over the content that is appearing on it (games, videos, assignments and so on).

Axel needs your help to find out what is happening and what to do about it.

Il ne tient qu’à vous de participer à cette aventure et de faire connaître le jeu pour aider à mobiliser les consciences au sujet des problèmes environnementaux de la planète qui sont débattus lors de la conférence internationale qui a lieu à Copenhague du 7 au 18 novembre 2009.
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Climate justice fast

“The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right.”

Climate Justice Fast! is an international hunger strike taking place from the 6th of November 2009 to call for strong, just action on the climate crisis