Tempus Tommy

A Dane living in The Netherlands

Sunday, July 18, 2004  

Yipiiie...a new (commercial) alternate reality game is out. It's "Missing" that together with a bought CD-ROM uses real time emailing and web browsing as parts of the game. As it is the case with other ARGs you have to assume another identity, so it is not a pervasive alternate reality as we saw in f.ex. "Majestic". Too bad, but I guess the genre is finding it's (less wild) balance within the game genres. If I wasn't in the middle of moving I would get the game and try it out myself. But for now I just follow along on the web (salemwitchmystery.com is f.ex. part of the game) and in different fora. CNN has an article on the game and unfiction.com will without doubt cover it a.s.a.p.
Have fun!
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archives:

Trying to make the central heating work again.

links:

game-research.com

gamasutra.com

Susana Tosca (My former advisor)

dutch in dk (A blog: twin blogger - mirrorwise)

Klastrup's Cataclysms (my friend)

Bygballe's blog (my friend)

Louise's thoughts (my friend)

Frank Schaap (a Dutch researcher working in the same area as I)

Nick Yee's Hub (an Online Study in MMORPG)

books on my desk:

Michael Argyle:
"The Psychology of Interpersonal Behavior"

Danii Elkonin:
Legens Psykologi (The Psychology of Play)

Erving Goffman:
"The presentation of Self in Everday Life"

Erving Goffman:
"Behavior in Public Places"

Erving Goffman:
"Frame Analysis"

Lisbeth Klastrup:
"Towards a Poetics of a Virtual World" (not yet in press)

Edward Hall:
"The Hidden Dimension"

update Feb. 23

mail:

tommyblogger@hotmail.com

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