17 Mar 2003
Virtual Reality for Real

Alternate Reality Games Grab Mindshare [Slashdot]

Pretty strange - especially that it's in the Times and on the BBC. Let me see - strange emails, bogus websites mixed up with legit ones, mysterious voice mail messages .... all the while trying to figure out what the hell is really going on. They didn't mention reverse engineering DSP code originally written in Logo for the 8008, but if they'd throw that in the mix I know the perfect name for this game - call it Software Engineering!

Seriously though, it's not like we don't mix games and reality enough or anything .... what with media manipulations, government disinformation campaigns and the general high level of angst in the world right now, do we really need this? Will it take off?

Only time will tell, I suppose.

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