Beyond Reality

A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming

John Gosney - Collection Course Technology

320 pages, parution le 24/11/2005

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Résumé

Beyond Reality: A Guide to Alternate Reality Gaming serves as a comprehensive introduction to this fascinating topic. It covers various aspects of alternate reality gaming, including its history and development of an ARG game (e.g. the "puppet master" role). It also introduces components of ARG games, explaining to inexperienced players how to play an ARG and covers devices (such as GPS devices, etc.). You will get tips regarding ARG strategies and will be able to play your own sample game that is contained within the pages of the book.

Benefits:

No previous gaming experience is required; however, for experienced gamers, this book serves as provides extensive resources (e.g. Web sites, etc.) for being involved in an ARG.
Participate in the Route 66 ARG contained within the pages of the book.

L'auteur - John Gosney

John Gosney

is a Web-Database Applications Developer for the IU School Dentistry. He works with ColdFusion, Macromedia Flash, Microsoft Active Server Pages, Java, and other Web-based technologies. He has worked as a consultant to Eli Lilly and Company in System Development and has developed and implemented several Web-based applications utilizing SQL. He is an experienced Web developer utilizing Microsoft FrontPage, Visual InterDev, and ColdFusion. He is the author of several books, including Business Intelligence With ColdFusion, Customer Relationship Management Essentials, and Web Enable Your Small Business In a Weekend.

Sommaire

Unreality: A Brief History of ARG
Beyond Reality: Approaching an ARG
Past Reality: An Annotated ARG, Part I
Past Reality: An Annotated ARG, Part II
Down the Rabbit Hole: Introducing "Route 66"
Route 66 ARG, Part II
Route 66 ARG, Part III (Conclusion)
A Post-ARG Analysis
Web Design for Puppetmasters, Part I
Web Design for Puppetmasters, Part II
Appendix A Online ARG Resources

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Thomson
Auteur(s)	John Gosney
Collection	Course Technology
Parution	24/11/2005
Nb. de pages	320
Format	19 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	675g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781592007370
ISBN13	978-1-59200-737-0