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I'm looking for examples of ARG games/interactive websites for a project I'm working on, they are usually hard to gather together as they often get deleted/forgotten about after whatever they are advertising comes out, and they kind of peaked in the early internet days, does anyone have any good examples? These are the ones I can think of: Take This Lollipop: http://www.takethislollipop.com/ Interactive facebook thing kind of about stranger danger.  Dexter's Hit list: http://www.thedexterhitlist.com/sendon.php Pretty awesome example, advertising for the 2nd season of dexter. There were similar gamey type things for season 1 then season 2 of Breaking Bad as well. (http://www.waltswisdom.com/ I believe the other was called Walts ___ as well but not sure. My life in 20 Years: https://www.mylifein20years.com Advert for season 1 of rectify. Doesn't seem to really work anymore.
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Feb 2, 2015 11:51
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I have no idea what there status is these days but there's the potato box thing Valve did and ILOVEBEES, iirc. I think those'd both be well documented even if their sites are down. I think Bioshock 2 had one also.
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Feb 2, 2015 11:54
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I don't remember the name, but there was one around 2000 where you gave them your address, email, fax, phone number, everything, and they would constantly fax or mail you letters with super-cryptic stuff in them for the game. It got shut down and/or in a lot of trouble because parents thought it was this weird terrorist thing and they had to start saying "THIS IS FOR [GAME]" at the front of all their communications.
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Feb 2, 2015 12:04
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Quad posted:I don't remember the name, but there was one around 2000 where you gave them your address, email, fax, phone number, everything, and they would constantly fax or mail you letters with super-cryptic stuff in them for the game. It got shut down and/or in a lot of trouble because parents thought it was this weird terrorist thing and they had to start saying "THIS IS FOR [GAME]" at the front of all their communications. Sounds like Majestic - which got shutdown because of 9/11 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majestic_(video_game)
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Feb 2, 2015 12:08
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The Secret World has had a few ARGs, one before launch and at least another, plus I think another currently in the works. Unfortunately it looks like the websites are all shut down for the previous two, or at least I can't find them. Here is the link for the current one: http://support.division-66.com/tswplayers/ I haven't really looked at it myself, haven't played TSW since release, but maybe someone else will know a bit more.
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Feb 2, 2015 12:35
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Rare made a fake, corporate website teasing Perfect Dark (N64) before it was announced. That's the first hoax promo site I heard of. If I remember right, Rare eventually "leaked" a password you could use to log in at the site and access surveillance footage of Joanna Dark. Here's what the site looked like back in May 2000: https://web.archive.org/web/20000511135926/http://www.datadyne.com/ IGN posted:Yesterday IGN64 posted a story about a new website at https://www.datadyne.com that, eerily enough, seemed to have not only the same name, but identical interests and company goals to the evil corporation DataDyne in Rare's upcoming Perfect Dark. We asked the question, is it a strange coincidence or a clever marketing ploy by Nintendo®? Unless someone can find a copy of The Daily Aztec Datadyne ad, I'm inclined to say that particular IGN reader-mail was sent by a Rare PR guy. It's still cool though. The following login credentials can be found in game on the Datadyne CEO. Username: CDV780322 Password: I8MOZYM8NDI8S. It doesn't work at the site now, although that could be because it's a web-archived version. Oh, there was another Perfect Dark hoax site for the Carrington Institute. Archieved here: https://web.archive.org/web/20001206110000/http://www.carringtoninstitute.com/ Username: solaris Password: pal32ver21z would log you in, but it doesn't work through the archives. Apparently it had footage of scientists, probably related to the Perfect Dark aliens. Attack on Princess fucked around with this message at 14:53 on Feb 2, 2015 |
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Feb 2, 2015 13:45
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I remember after Ilovebees, someone tried starting up an unofficial 'sequel' to it. I don't remember much about it, but there was a video on the front page for a while with snippets of Cortana's dialogue distorted and layered over a creepy video of an old woman preparing a gift for her husband at breakfast. Spoiler alert - it was her tongue There was also one for the movie AI, which I think was about the murders of a load of AI scientists and technicians. Turned out to have nothing to do with the movie, and wound up being more interesting than the film itself.
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Feb 2, 2015 14:31
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http://www.42entertainment.com/work/yearzero NIN's year zero album had a pretty good one, here's a summary from the company that made it
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Feb 2, 2015 14:40
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Majestic was amazing. Way ahead of its time. It called and freaked out my girlfriend several times.
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Feb 2, 2015 14:40
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Kaboom Dragoon posted:I remember after Ilovebees, someone tried starting up an unofficial 'sequel' to it. I don't remember much about it, but there was a video on the front page for a while with snippets of Cortana's dialogue distorted and layered over a creepy video of an old woman preparing a gift for her husband at breakfast. Spoiler alert - it was her tongue That was The Beast! arguably the 'first' ARG. I hadn't really thought about them for a while, I guess the form has fallen down a bit? There were a ton of them coming out at one time.
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