A world without oil

As a follow up to my former post on “Games – a social change” I here give another example on how an Alternate Reality Game could look like. This example shows some of the power an A.R.G. can have – 60,000 visitors in 32 days and that´s only visitors, not showing how many actually took notice of the game or just the phrase “A world without oil“.

Gary Gygax is dead

He died march 8th in 2008. I quote AP:

Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creator Dies at 69 By EMILY FREDRIX MILWAUKEE (AP)

Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69.

Teenage zombies, alien brain thingys and hiphop

I make no secret of that I love Nintendo and good hiphop (mostly artists on indie labels), but what might be fairly unknown to some is that I also love science fiction films from the 50´s and 60´s (It came from outer space and War of the worlds comes to mind).

Games – a social change

Possibilities and a tool
What games of today are bringing us, is what they’ve always done – they motivate us to participate and interact. During gameplay we learn to think again in order to master challenges and reach goals, at the same time games are challenging our way of thinking within frames made out of their rules. A game doesn’t just mean interaction and entertainment though, but also possibilities to bring more values with other purposes within several different branches. Advertising and marketing are a few of such branches where