Due: 13 March
Your second project for this term will be to write a proposal for an alternate reality game and post it to on your class website. Along with your game proposal and some seed materials, you will write a two-page rationale explaining the audience, goal, and inspiration for your game.
This project has two parts: a proposal and a rationale.
* Proposal and seed materials
Using the guidelines for ARGs that we establish in class, create a proposal for an Alternate Reality Game. Your proposal should include a detailed plot outline, some specific written components, plans for across-media and/or real-world interactions, and some of the materials you might distribute to players (seed materials).
* Rationale
Your rationale should explain the purpose, audience, and ideas behind the game. While the focus of your game may be fun more than politics, it’s important that you have some central concerns, themes, or ideas in your project. I encourage you to write about the sources that inspired you: what genres, texts, and ARGs influenced your decisions and proposal? You should also explain how the different elements of your proposal and seed materials aim toward those goals.
Details
- Your proposal and seed materials should span at least eight web pages.
- You may produce text, bullet lists, images, sound, video, or any other methods for explaining and proposing your game.
- Your rationale should be at least 1000 words. This includes a detailed explanation of the goal and purpose, the themes, your inspirations, and your materials.
- Be as complete as you can – aim your proposal at an academic committee funding ARG development; you should explain the game in detail and your reasoning for it.
- Be sure to use complete MLA citation format for borrowed images or quotes.
- Be sure your project is free of broken links and other errors of that sort.
This project should be produced for the web, and should total at least eight pages (not counting the rationale), with many links. Your project should be uploaded to your site by the beginning of class on 18 March.
Your project should be placed in a subdirectory called 'project2’.
Projects by previous students
Remember that these project show possibilities and examples of student work. They do not encompass everything one could do, nor do they limit what a project "should look like." In general, I picked solid projects that follow the assignment well.
