would love to ;)
always been an interest of mine since AI.
afterall, one of my few efforts in organized vlogging was node666. :)
i also laugh when i think back to 1994 when i came up with an idea called
webracer which would lead people on a path to find one single web page on
the net the end page. along the way, you had to solve crossword puzzles
(using a client-side crowsswords app i found) in order to proceed by getting
hints or direct links to a new page... or 2 links where you pick one to
follow like a maze path. the crosswords in each puzzle would all be
embedded in other sponsor pages, enticing users to visit and sift through
these sites to more quickly solve the puzzles. adding in banner ads and all
that along the way i thought it was pretty genius. i know i have an old
college notebook around with babble on this webracer idea somewhere LOL.
was pissed off that webracer.com was taken by some racecar fanatic at the
time.
needed to pay the crossword puzzle app people money to synch it up to the
project etc...
needed to build the maze of sites and get sponsors on board and so on.
it never happened beyond some very rough examples and scribblings throughout
my psychology101 notebook.
hey it was college days and any number of things ended up distracting me
away from the idea. (can you guess?).
looking back it was likely to fail anyways because it was too ahead
of its time. i think. maybe if i pitched it perfectly and gotten a few
businesses on board... it would roll. but what about players? and a
prize? and i remember researching legal issues back then with things like
lotteries and prizes (yes i was researching it all the way through instead
of studying for tests). so i needed lawyers and contracts written up. i
mean, i was going to casinos to try and make money for rent at the time.
so... yeah. discouraging.
but i could have tried harder. and drank less.
wasnt really an ARG... i didnt have a storyline or anything... just a maze,
puzzles, sponsors/ads and a mysterious end page. 1 of millions of web
pages... somewhere out there. and a mystery prize.
ARGish!
ok, someone go try my idea today. then paypal me if it works ;)
sull
On 08 Mar 2007 12:41:25 -0800, Eric Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oo, sull, you're paying attention to the ARG space? We gotta talk. ;-)
ER
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com videoblogging%40yahoogroups.com,
sull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey,
Here is an interesting post and video from ARGFest (i really wanted to
go to
this!).
The creators of LonelyGirl15 talk about how they were dragged into the
world
of Alternate Reality Gaming after they started the LonelyGirl15
experiment.
http://www.argn.com/archive/
000559im_a_whatmaster_the_lonelygirl15_creators_appear_at_argfestocon_to_tell_us_why
_they_love_their_fans_in_spite_of_themselves.php
Sounds like they are also open to incorporating more fan created videos
and
scriptwriters to help progress the official ARG running called OpAphid
which was originally created by a fan and later adopted by the
LonelyGirl15
crew.
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=OpAphid
fyi.
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http://SpreadTheMedia.org (my blog)
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