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ARGs the new LARPs?
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Are you ready to have an exciting life? Everything may start with a creepy phone call or an SUV parked in front of your house, but one day your mission will have to start. As a bonus, your character will be part of the storyline and players will need to contact or virtually find you to solve their missions. If you like RP, you want this....
Anyone know anything about these style of games? They look like a kind of hybrid LARP/video game experience. Here's some more promo shit.....
The game has been set to bring players to new grounds by mixing different gaming experiences such as rewarding them, in some missions, with in-game items directly applicable to The Secret World or even with the use of a specially created Black Watchmen Companion App.
This app will let them use their environment as part of the game-play and game reality. From fighting enemy in their backyards to flash mob attack in central park, the system enable team play in various hunting mission. For example, players could be grounded by snipers and not be able to leave their house without the implication of other players who can come and flush them out.
For security purpose, real identity and personal information will in no circumstance be revealed, but the game will blend with real life in many ways by leaving the players set their desired ‘experience’. They can choose to receive text or phone call during a mission, or go as far as involving yourself as the main character and ending up with a black SUV parked in front of your house!
Sounds freaky!!!!!
Here's a link The Black Watchmen
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Also don't want to be pinned down by a sniper while I'm at work and not be able to leave at 5PM. Environment is hostile enough as it is.
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Sounds like this concept was inspired by that old Killer game. I ran one in high school and played one in college. Lots of fun, but both games caused some trouble after a couple of days.
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This is Not A Game
www.amazon.com/This-Not-Game-Novel-Dagma...s=this+is+not+a+game
Deep State
www.amazon.com/Deep-State-Walter-Jon-Wil...eywords=Deep%2BState
Its protagonist is an ARG producer. I enjoyed it, and learned a little about ARGs in the bargain. It didn't make me think that ARGs were my type of fun, but the books were good.
What little bit about it that I know makes me think, "ARG == publicity stunt". This isn't necessarily a bad thing, since _somebody_ has to pay for all this. But again, not something I'm dying to try.
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I've still got the Dream Park RPG game knocking around somewhere, we ran a good few games with it. It was pretty good fun and the group enjoyed the way you could use your character points to rebuild an entirely different character in an unexpected new universe. From memory the first few games we ran were;
WWII train heist - stealing gold from the Nazis
Near future orbital rescue scenario (all being sciency types we go hit with figuring out problems such as how flames behave in zero g.)
Cartoon universe - took us a while to twig how to play - falling off a cliff? grab the pencil in your pocket and draw your solution (parachute, spring boots etc...)
Victorian time travel/vampire game set in Sussex (where we all live/lived)
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