for SCTC Plugged In 2012

1. ALTERNATE REALITY GAME
ARG ACADEMY

2. RABBITHOLE

3. PUPPETMASTER

4. CURTAIN

5. TINAG

6. What is an ARG?
 An unfamiliar term for a familiar concept?
 ARGs consist of case studies, role play, or
scenario based instruction that may or may
not use mobile technologies.

7. Key Attributes
 Movement
 An essential part of the ARG
 Players must move around game (your
classroom, hallway, school or even websites)
to collect data and clues as they progress
through the game.

8. The ARG Family of Games
 Augmented Reality Game
 Augmented Reality Simulation
 Pervasive Game
 Location-Based Game
 Murder Mystery

9. A “REAL” ARG ALSO HAS…

10. Interactive Narrative
 Fiction
 Player actions change the game
 Claim to be real
 Alter the World…don’t step into the Magic
Circle
 Transmedia

11. Basics
 Subject
 Students
 Purpose
 What do you want them to learn? Skills or
knowledge?
 What is the conflict/challenge?

12. Rabbithole
 Structure the Door
 Door for students/educators
 First artifact that draws the player in……..
instead may be the first bit of information
 Immersion

13. ARG Design
 Narrative
 Game Design
 Challenges
 Transmedia
 Tech Tools

14. CHALLENGES

15. Challenges
 Flow/Fiero
 Solving a puzzle
 Picking up clues to a mystery
 Dealing with a character

16. Challenge
 Puzzle
 Mathematical Formula
 Message to Decipher
 Problem to Solve

17. Our ARGs
 Setting the Table
 Restaurant Analysis
 D.B. Cooper
 Accounting Practices and Techniques
 MedTag
 Microbiology Disease Detectives

18. Examples to reference
 Ecomuve http://ecomuve.gse.harvard.edu/
 HARPS projects
http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=harp&pageid=icb
.page69587
 Mentira http://www.mentira.org/
 Place Based Learning
http://website.education.wisc.edu/kdsquire/tenure-files/16-
squire-shelton-book.pdf
 7 Things You Should Know about Alternate Reality Games
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7045.pdf

19. TECH TOOLS &
WHY WE USE THEM

20. And Google ….Google Docs…Gmail…Presenter….
NARRATIVE &
PROJECT MANAGEMENT

27. STORYBOARD IT OUT

31. AUGMENTED
REALITY

32. What is AR?
 Adding a digital / virtual layer of data that is
linked to a specific geographic location that is
usually accessed using mobile technologies
 Links the physical with the digital using
 Geolocation tools
 Mobile computing
 Dependent on internet / data connection

33. QR CODES

38. TAGWHAT.COM

43. ARIS
HTTP://ARISGAMES.ORG/

46. QUESTIONS?