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  • All Games will be Alternate Reality Games

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    This is the extended abstract of a talk I wanted to give at the next GDC but didn’t end up happening. Them’s the breaks, I suppose – and I’m going to the Montreal Game Summit next month, so all’s well. Despite the success of The Beast and I Love Bees (winner of the 2005 GDC…

  • Speechifying

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    On Wednesday I’m heading off to The Future Laboratory’s Autumn 2005 ‘Trend Briefing’; unsurprisingly, alternate reality gaming is in, and while Mind Candy isn’t giving a presentation, we are going to be featured in one, so we have a few free tickets. Observant readers will note that their flyer doesn’t actually mention ARGs – rather,…

  • London and Google

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    Busy. Very busy. But not too busy to have my 23rd birthday yesterday, watch Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and eat some chocolate cake. In case I don’t mention it later, I’m going to be in Toronto in early September and I’m planning to organise some kind of Perplex City/alternate reality gaming meetup, so keep…

  • The Reality Artificers

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    How the BBC, Orson Welles, ancient Egyptian scribes and alternate reality game designers all follow the same 3900 year old tradition.

  • The Night Before Launch

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    A reworking of ‘The Night Before Christmas’, Syzygy-style.

  • Happenings

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    Lots of stuff has been going on with my life lately which I should have mentioned here but just haven’t had time. I was interviewed by the Times a couple of weeks ago in an article on alternate reality games and a pop neuroscience book which I contributed to called Mind Hacks has been released…

  • Beekeepers

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    A quick look at the I Love Bees game, and how it relates to the public perception of the alternate reality game genre in general.

  • Project Syzygy

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    For a weblog that’s supposed to be about ‘massively multiuser online entertainment’, I’ve been awfully quiet about the entire genre. Well, that ends now – at least partially. For a while now, I’ve been involved in a London-based venture called Project Syzygy which is developing what I feel is one of the most astonishingly innovative…

  • More inaccurate reporting

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    I was initially pleased to see that the Guardian Online had an article about Alternate Reality Games today, and then disappointed to see an inaccurate and overly simplistic piece of journalism. Soon after reading it, I wrote an email to the author, Andrew Losowsky, which I’ve included below: I have a few comments on your…

  • Lyra’s Oxford

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    Lyra’s Oxford is more than just a short story and a collection of colourful extras. Pullman has set us a mystery, and judging by his past works, it’s going to be interesting.