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Elizabeth Bonsignore 1 Derek Hansen 1 Kari Kraus 1,2 Amanda Visconti 2 Allison Druin 1 The Design of an Alternate Reality Game: The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry 1 Maryland’s iSchool 2 Department of English, U

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Elizabeth Bonsignore1

Derek Hansen1

Kari Kraus1,2

Amanda Visconti2

Allison Druin1

The Design of an Alternate Reality Game:

The Arcane Gallery of Gadgetry

1 Maryland’s iSchool 2Department of English, UMD

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Justnoevil.org

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The Junto Oath

some of your 57 classmates

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Junto Lives

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ORDERs, MISSIONS, Badges

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April g.

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ALTERNATE REALITY GAME(ARG)

ARCANE GALLERY OF GADGETRY

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Alternate Reality games

Entertainment/Marketing

The Beast I love Bees The Lost Experience Metacortechs

“Serious Games” (Education)

World Without Oil Evoke Pheon ARGOSI

Cathy’s Book Personal Effects: Dark

Arts 39 Clues Trackers

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AN ARG IS…

An interactive narrative – Storytelling as Archaeology1

In real-time, using the real world as a game-board

“This is Not a Game” (TINAG)

Content embedded in multiple media types and tools

Malleable

Collaboration Required to Uncover the Story

1 Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game

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Players engage in Literacy Practices• Gather, evaluate information• Think creatively, critically, “counter-

factually”

Embedded in Authentic Environments• Everyday communications tools are

the controls (wikis, blogs, cell phones, email, print…)

Potential for Transferability• You, not a character you are

portraying, are trying to unravel the mystery or solve the puzzle

ARGS and new literacies

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Real or Imaginary?(TINAG vs TIAG)

Tools/Technologies

ARG DESIGN ISSUES

Scalability

Reusability/Replayability

Narrative Pace and Placement

Motivation/Engagement

Participation/Collaboration

Challenges/Puzzles

Competition

Rewards

Assessment

Learning Objectives

Archiving

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DESIGn challenge

Preserving“This is Not A Game” (TINAG)

Enabling thoughtful information evaluation

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DESIGN CASE:ARCANE GALLERY OF GADGETRY

1836

1861

1877

2010

20101877

1727 18531745

1764?

1854

2011

2011AmericanPhilosophicalSociety

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DESIGN CASE: AGOGSEASON “1” INITIAL RESULTS

Survey responses• How real it felt• The fact that I was saving history• That I actually got into it and had fun• The teamwork that was needed to solve it• How serious everyone took the process• It keeps you thinking• How intricate it was• I felt like a detective / spy!!

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Interviews with experienced ARG designers

Design Sessions with Kidsteam

Surveys & design docs from MLS studentswho created lesson plans for AGOG

Design process/launch of 3 ARGs AGOG “Season 1” (middle schoolers) AGOG undergraduate version Run Red’s Road

(developed by teens and librarians for Carroll County Public libraries)

Research Context

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ARG DESIGN IMPLICATIONS

Story Content Embedded and Matched to Technology types/affordances

Collective Responsibility to End-Game

Take advantage of gaps in historical record to traverse from “fact” to “fiction” – Real to Alternate Perspectives

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THANK YOU!

Elizabeth Bonsignore / [email protected] Kraus / [email protected] Hansen / [email protected] Visconti / [email protected]

www.justnoevil.orgwww.juntolives.org