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Slight Nudges Now Offered.Solely for the Discerning Dilettante.

Be Aware – it could be in the wrong direction.: :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: :

Is the Jejune Institute still spreading false nonchalance? Or have they mended their ways?

We need you to find out.: :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: :

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dial: 415.325.4014: :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: :

visit:The Jejune Institute

580 California Street, Suite 1607San Francisco, CA.

Tuesday through SaturdayNoon to 5:30pm

Slight Nudges Now Offered.Solely for the Discerning Dilettante.

Be Aware – it could be in the wrong direction.: :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: :

Is the Jejune Institute still spreading false nonchalance? Or have they mended their ways?

We need you to find out.: :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: :

/ // / // Next steps // / // / /: :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: :

dial: 415.325.4014: :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: : :: :

visit:The Jejune Institute

580 California Street, Suite 1607San Francisco, CA.

Tuesday through SaturdayNoon to 5:30pm

WTFFLF?

THE JEJUNE INSTITUTE

ALTERNATEREALITYGAMES

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an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions.

- Storyline- Affective- Fictional

an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions.

- Blurry boundaries- Familiar tools- “This is not a game”

an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions.

- Beginning / End - Challenges - Rewards- Winners

an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions.

- Collaborative- “Puppeteered”- Organic

an interactive narrative that uses the real world, multiple media, and traditional gaming methods as the platform and which may be affected by multiple participants' actions.

ARG

EXAMPLES

YEAR 0

Experience the storyline

of a newlyreleased album

Speculate about life & events after a global oil crisis

DARPA NETWORK

CHALLENGE

Research theefficacy of using

social networks for mass-mobilization

How hard is it to vanish in the digital age?

OTHER EXAMPLES

Conspiracy for Good Nokia Participative storytelling about environmental concerns

The Mystery Guest Carroll County, MD Libraries

Augment a youth summer reading program

Smokescreen Channel 4 / UK Educate youth about online privacy

Our Water Planet Aguatero Industries Educate people about scarcity of clean water

CAN WE ADOPTTHESE

CONCEPTS?

Learningthrough

soap operas,whodunnits and otherstorytelling

genres

Geocaches

CORNER THE PUMA (a 5k chase)

Tweets CheckinsRun logs

Weave a story arc into the readers’ comments

QUESTIONSor

THOUGHTS?

THANKS

SEEargn.com

unfiction.comdespoiler.org

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