Arg designhcil symposium
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The document describes the design of an alternate reality game called the Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry. It discusses alternate reality games and how they tell interactive stories using real-world environments. It also explores how ARGs can promote new literacies as players gather and evaluate information to solve puzzles. The document then outlines various design issues for ARGs and presents the Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry as a design case study. Initial results from the first season showed players enjoyed how real it felt and the teamwork needed to solve the mystery. The document concludes with implications for embedding story content and technology.
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- 1. The Design of an Alternate Reality Game: The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry Elizabeth Bonsignore1 Derek Hansen1 Kari Kraus1,2 Amanda Visconti2 Allison Druin1 1 Maryland’s iSchool2Department of English, UMD
- 8. The Junto Oath some of your 57 classmates
- 9. Junto Lives
- 13. April g.
- 15. Alternate reality game (ARG) Arcane GallerY of GAdgetry
- 17. I love Bees
- 19. Metacortechs
- 20. Cathy’s Book
- 21. Personal Effects: Dark Arts
- 22. 39 Clues
- 24. Evoke
- 25. Pheon
- 27. “This is Not a Game” (TINAG)
- 28. Content embedded in multiple media types and tools
- 29. Malleable
- 30. Collaboration Required to Uncover the Story1 Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
- 33. Think creatively, critically, “counter-factually”
- 34. Embedded in Authentic Environments
- 35. Everyday communications tools are the controls (wikis, blogs, cell phones, email, print…)
- 41. How real it felt
- 42. The fact that I was saving history
- 43. That I actually got into it and had fun
- 44. The teamwork that was needed to solve it
- 45. How serious everyone took the process
- 46. It keeps you thinking
- 47. How intricate it was
- 49. Design Sessions with Kidsteam
- 51. AGOG “Season 1” (middle schoolers)
- 53. Run Red’s Road (developed by teens and librarians for Carroll County Public libraries)
- 55. Take advantage of gaps in historical record to traverse from “fact” to “fiction” –
Editor's Notes
- Shifting to the lens of interaction design,There are manychallenges in designing ARGs – such as repeatability – most existing ARGs have only been played once – and scalability – most require huge amounts of development and support during game-play because they’re so dynamic. And if you’re designing educational ARGs, how do you embed means for Assessing skills as authentically as you want to embed narrative elements?