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Alternate Reality Gaming Takes One More Step into the Unknown
Mysterious Nashville Featured in ARGonauts podcast
My son, Jesse Pouget Ditkoff, has always had a vivid imagination.
Growing up, like many of his generation, he was an avid gamer, spending hours exploring alternative worlds and interacting with not only fictional characters, but gamers from all over the world.
Now 29, Jesse has created, in his spare time, an alternative world of his own — Mysterious Nashville — one that resides within the Alternate Reality Gaming universe.
In case you are not familiar with ARGs, here’s your quickie tutorial, according to CNET:
“Alternate Reality Gaming an obsession-inspiring genre that blends real-life treasure hunting, interactive storytelling, video games and online community…
These games are an intensely complicated series of puzzles involving coded Web sites, real-world clues like the newspaper advertisements, phone calls in the middle of the night from game characters and more. That blend of real-world activities and a dramatic story line has proven irresistible to many…
