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My colleague Pat Clark and I are conducting a multiplayer scenario analysis (similar to an Alternate Reality Game) to explore the topic of racism on campus. It’s called osw3go.net. We seek to involve our community (although the rest of you can observe) in a constructive dialogue about what we can do, individually and [...]

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Here’s a project for FLEFF I just launched. You are all invited to participate!

Can you help a bunch of ghosts wage topological war, one Google Map at a time?
Welcome to Open Space, the Alternate Reality Game hosted by the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF).
An Alternate Reality Game (ARG) is an interactive, multiplayer Web-based [...]

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I’m currently coordinating a second (s)ARG. Here’s the info:
What would you do if you were not able to graduate because of cuts to SUNY Oswego’s budget? Stop panicking…. start acting!
Save Oswego! is an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) developed as a class project for the courses Social Networks and the Web and Videogame Theory and Analysis [...]

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I’m going to be coordinating a couple of ARGs this Spring. Here’s the announcement for the first one. Please join us!
‘Stop Gold Farming!’ is an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) developed for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. It could be called an experiment in collective storytelling, a radical new media project, or an internet ‘hoax’ [...]

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In my course Friend Request Denied: Social Networks and the Web I have my students play a game I developed to let them explore the dynamics of building a reputation online by giving and capturing attention. It’s also a fun way for students to get to know each other. I’m posting the game instructions and [...]

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