Fun. Original. Nice way to waste a few minutes before dinner’s ready.
Splashback. Good clean fun for everyone.
Badum-ching!
Thanks! I’ll be here all week. Be sure to tip your waitress.
Game of the Day: Splashback
Your Own Rube Goldberg Machine on your Fridge!!
OK, so this looks totally cool. If you loved Mousetrap, you gotta check out Frigits Deluxe. I always totally bypassed the game part (of Mousetrap) to just build the thing and set it off.
Frigits Deluxe is made up of various magnetic pieces that you can assemble on your fridge, on the side of your metal desk, etc. I’m thinking this’ll be perfect for my office. :)
(via Gizmodo)
ARG Spokesmodel Coming Out of Retirement
Yeah, spokesmodel, you heard me.
After over a year of relative silence, mostly due to transitioning over to 42Entertainment, I’m going to be going public again in the next few weeks. I’ll be a guest on a couple podcasts netcasts, the first of which will be the ARG Netcast, which is pretty fitting.
No clues, just talking about my transition from one side of the curtain to the other, work on Last Call Poker and Dead Man’s Tale, and other fun meta-type things. At least, that’s the plan.
Be watching for announcements of more netcast appearances in the coming weeks.
The Big Definition
Defining what exactly constitutes an Alternate Reality Game seems to be a very popular pastime to some. Interestingly enough, it often comes from people who, to me, really have no business attempting to define it at all, while being all to eager to do so (which is the subject for another evening and a bottle of brandy).
One of the few people who I believe to be uniquely qualified, Sean Stacey (founder of Unfiction and co-puppetmaster for Project MU/Metacortechs), has just published a pretty nifty essay on the subject.
While I still subscribe to the notion that a good ARG is, at it’s core, a form of internet archaeology, Sean does a great job quantifying many of those troubling nuances that plague those attempting to pin a definition down.
Anyway, for all you meta-heads out there (and you know who you are!), enjoy!