alternate reality game

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alternate reality game

n
a type of multimedia game for multiple players that takes place in real time and evolves according to decisions taken by the players rather than by a programmer
alternate reality gaming n
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The second and more demanding part of the game will focus on cracking code in Alternate Reality Game format.
This alternate reality game, said to promote harmful behavior and suicide in Russia and Central Asia, is named after the marien mammal and gives the wrong notion that they intentionally end their lives by 'beaching' themselves up on shorelines, where they eventually die from dehydration.
Also, last fall, the college launched what might be the first fully online credit bearing alternate reality game course.
In Chapters 2, 3 and 4, Atkinson provides methodically a series of discussions that focus on various dimensions of current extended screen phenomenon through numerous case studies and examples of transmedia, interactive cinema, experimental mobile cinema, alternate reality game (ARGs), iPad cinema, web, social media and live cinema ranging from completed to on-going and near-future developments projects.
Last year it was won by Newcastle's Tyneside Cinema, for its Time Machine project, which offered an alternate reality game to engage nine to 12-year-olds with the history of the building.
For an alternate reality game tied into a film people then have totally personal physiological encryption."
More recently, Johnson, Buhler, and Hillman (2010) described participating in the campus-wide alternate reality game Humans vs.
Demos highlighted new tools and games involving content generation, alternate reality game retargeting, social game play, and character behavior creation.
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