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New York City Game Development Group May Meeting

May 14
Wed 6:30 PM
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Instead of our usual Meetup, there will be a IGDA sponsored panel discussion on Alternate Reality Games. You will need a separate RSVP at the link below for admission. Please follow link for event location.

http://nycgames.org/r...

Alternate Reality Games blend the real world with the online world and fuse the players' creativity with that of the designers as the story unfolds. A genre that began just a few years ago, ARGs have been used for marketing, for independent and self-funded storytelling, for serious games, and for no other purpose than to have fun.

This panel will address the genre's roots in games and with gamers, explore what ARGs and traditional video games have to learn from one another, and even speculate on how the ARG is changing the face of 21st Century entertainment. Join us for a discussion with these New York based ARG designers: 
Frank Lantz of area/code;
Catherine Herdlick of GameLab; and 
Andrea Phillips of Perplex City, a leadership council member of the IGDA ARG SIG

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Who attended?

    • “ This was my first meeting and it was a special discussion about ARGs. I was not familiar with RGs before and found the discussion very informative about what ARGs have been, are and where they could go from here - both as an "artistic" experience and their place in the commercial world. I appreciated that the panelists had differing opinions on the nuances of the field and were willing to express their thoughts. I look forward to attending "normal" meetings in the future. -Jonathan Cook, TMI Games ”
    • “ Great ARG discussion. Learned some good ideas that I can use in my own game design. ”