Archive for the ‘compendium’ Category

I Love Bees (aka the Haunted Apiary)

Thursday, July 1st, 2004
July – November 2004
Tag: Dana's Aunt Margaret is having trouble with her website. Weird trouble.
Trailhead: I Love Bees
Sponsors: Bungie and 4orty2wo Entertainment
Gametype: Commercial

(more…)

Aware

Thursday, April 1st, 2004
April – September 2004
Tag: Are you AWARE?
Meta/Trailhead: ruaware.org
Sponsor: Real World Gaming
Gametype: Independent

(more…)

Metacortechs (Project Mu)

Monday, September 1st, 2003
September – November 2003
Tag: Wired Reality.
Trailhead: MetaCortechs
Sponsor: Credits
Gametype: Independent

(more…)

Gaming the Game

Saturday, April 12th, 2003
The Cloudmakers group was formed to solve the mystery surrounding the death of fictional character Evan Chan, which eventually turned out to be a game called "The Beast" by it's creators, and designed to promote the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie, A.I. The Cloudmakers group was formed on the Yahoo! Groups service on April 11, 2001.

On April 12, 2001, an individual appeared in the IRC chat room used by some of the Cloudmakers for real-time interaction. Known as "celia," this individual was first believed to be in-game due her strange conversational style and constant quoting from works and along themes that were also utilized within The Beast.

(more…)

Experience It! Exposed

Saturday, April 5th, 2003
by SpaceBass
Much of the focus lately in the world of Unfiction has been on the decided lack of campaigns that have enjoyed success on the order of the Beast. Certainly amongst the Cloudmakers, the main collective of players that followed the Beast, it's a bit harder to recognize success if it doesn't live up to the scale of that original experience.

However, there were two Alternate Reality Games recently that each culminated in a special event catering to the players. Both events featured bonus schwag being handed out to the attendees. Both events were part of a marketing campaign. And both campaigns were very successful, according to their developers.

(more…)