http://www.argology.org About Alternate Reality Games, an initiative of the IGDA ARG SIG Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:11:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One of the main features of ARGs, as anyone interested in them will tell you, is that they deal with "collective intelligence" (or, as JC Hutchins puts it, "bunches of brains").  The idea is to get lots of people together, thinking about the content and contributing their ideas.  Very often ... http://www.argology.org/2008/11/13/arg-archives/ Media studies patriarch Henry Jenkins recently interviewd David Edery and Ethan Mollick, authors of the newly released Changing the Game: How Video Games Are Transforming the Future of Business. Part 1 of the interview Part 2 of the interview Part 2 is particularly interesting (for us) for its mention of ARGs, including the ... http://www.argology.org/2008/11/07/changing-the-game-how-video-games-are-transforming-the-future-of-business/ The inimitable Adrian Hon recently announced the world's first conference on ARGs in Charity and Education, to be Friday 5th December, in London. From the website: With sessions and panels by leading ARG designers, academics and educators in the field, this conference is an exceptional introduction to 'serious ARGs'. For developers ... http://www.argology.org/2008/10/21/args-in-charity-and-education/ Hello! This website is the product of efforts from the International Game Developers Association Alternate Reality Game Special Interest Group (IGDA ARG SIG) -- whew! It was born out of the desire to provide key information about the very well known but little understood format of 'alternate reality games', and ... http://www.argology.org/2008/07/18/official-launch-of-argology/ That's right, only seven days until the start of ARGFest-o-Con, the ARG fan community convention. There will be all sorts of ARG-related presentations, panels and events...and probably a few surprises as well. There's still time to register, so if you can make it to Boston next week... http://www.argology.org/2008/07/11/event-one-week-to-argfest-o-con/ It turns out that Authors cannot write or edit Pages, only Editors can do that. There's probably a plugin to assign capabilities in a less granular fashion, and I'll find it if there's demand; until then, though, we'll just make people working on Pages into Editors. http://www.argology.org/2008/07/10/admin-more-about-roles-posts-and-pages/ ARG creator Dan Hon, co-founder and CEO of Six to Start, will be speaking about ARGs at the forthcoming Visual Web Convention being held in London on the 9th-10th July. Session 1: Policy, Engagement, & Action - casual serious games, virtual worlds, Visual Web and ARGs. What is the roadmap ahead? ... http://www.argology.org/2008/05/22/event-arg-session-at-visual-web-convention/ Just a reminder that tomorrow night is the IGDA New York Chapter's panel on ARGs, starring Mike Monello, Sharon Applegate, Frank Lantz, Catherine Herdlick, and a cast of thousands! If you're in town, please try to come, I want to meet you. ^_^ You don't have to be an IGDA member, ... http://www.argology.org/2008/05/13/igda-nyc-presents-alternate-reality-games-is-this-a-game/ A quick summary of WordPress "Roles": Administrators can do anything. Editors manage and publish anyone's posts. Authors write and publish their own posts. Contributors write posts, but these posts don't appear until published (by an Editor, for example). Subscribers only read. If you're part of the SIG and need a certain role, let us know. The ... http://www.argology.org/2008/05/13/using-the-argology-blog/ If you look to your right, you should notice some new links on the sidebar. Chief among those are a Wiki and a Forum. Feel free to explore those. http://www.argology.org/2008/05/09/more-argology-features/