ARG (Augmented Reality Game)

[PeterAlt]

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the correct topic. If not, mods, please move it where it is supposed to go.

Last week, I saw this movie about a new trend called ARG, or Augmented Reality Gaming. The movie, The Institute (2013), was presented in the form of a documentary. You need to see it to understand what I am talking about. It got me into some deep thinking. With WDW's NextGen investment, ARG overlays at existing theme parks or new ARG-based attractions (or even a new ARG-based theme park) would work perfectly at WDW! ARG is the future of gaming and may even be the future of entertainment and theme park attractions. Disney can really get a leap on the competition by becoming the first major theme park to offer such innovation to its guests. Having implemented NextGen, they would have the infrastructure needed in order to create an ARG-based attraction or theme park!

Comments?

 

[Voxel]

I was attempting to create something like this earlier where each ride was actually a game within the game. The Pirate of the Caribbean would have you fighting over players with your ships and upgrading then. I however go quickly overwhelmed and stopped development.

 

[PeterAlt]

I was attempting to create something like this earlier where each ride was actually a game within the game. The Pirate of the Caribbean would have you fighting over players with your ships and upgrading then. I however go quickly overwhelmed and stopped development.

Please watch the movie I referenced. Warning: I convinced two of my friends to watch it and they just about killed me for "wasting" 1.5 hours of their lives. They obviously didn't get what they were watching was a role playing game. They were too caught up in the game's backstory to understand that this was a documentary about a new gaming phenomenon.

I have to admit that I didn't get that at first either, but at least I got that at least some of it had to do with fictional characters as part of an immersive game. It turns out that most of the people in the documentary are real people playing fictional characters as part of an immersive game (if not all of it).

Now that I've said that, maybe some of you who watch it may be enlightened by it, knowing what is actually being documented by the movie.

By the way, I found this out by looking up the names the movie mentioned, finding at least 5-year histories all over the Internet with actual blogging accounts, MySpace accounts, YouTube accounts, etc. going back years and years. At first, I thought these were real people. Then, I discovered that all of this tells amazing backstories of these characters that are untold in the movie. So bizarre are these backstories that if you research anything mentioned in them, you find an even more amazing backstory behind that backstory. Dig further and there's a yet more amazing backstory behind the backstory of the backstory. That's when I stopped, and I have no idea how many layers it goes, but that was enough to tell me that just about everything and everyone mentioned in the movie were fictitious elements of a massive role playing game that blurred the line between what is reality.

 

[mewhunter67]

Two things for your perusal:

About a couple years ago, Disney quietly began a competition that dealt with this very thing. In fact, I think it's active again, but just hasn't been updated: http://disneylivingworlds.com/

Second, over the past summer, Disney actually ran an ARG in conjunction with the D23 event last year, and also meant to be a viral campaign for Tomorrowland.

Here's the main site, which leads to a fictional blog for the main character: http://optimist.disney.com/

Also part of this are fictional twitter accounts:
https://twitter.com/DCartography
https://twitter.com/storyorbit

And other fictional websites, among other things:
http://lottfamilyconstruction.com/
http://disneycartography.com/

These also were used in part with altered real locations and items:

A table in the Tam O'Shanter, frequented by Disney and Imagineers, was found to have hidden messages and images
New props and hidden effects were left at Disneyland
Carolwood Pacific R.R.
You could also have gone to Chili John's for a special can of beans...

 

[Raoul]

Could be like this from the Game Of Thrones exhabition
http://gizmodo.com/the-oculus-rift-put-me-in-game-of-thrones-and-it-made-m-1510809083