ENGL 376MM:
New Media Studies

A Fall 2008 course at the University of Mary Washington exploring the discourses of counter-factual world building in new media culture.

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Flotsam & Jetsam ARG

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I can now only imagine the work that goes into the creation of a real ARG. This has been an overwhelming, but interesting experience. Our ARG stemmed from the idea of somehow using Disney lyrics or references as the basis of a puzzle or some other aspect of the ARG. While this didn’t necessarily happen it definitely did lead us in our final direction. Our group's ARG has a plot that most people have heard of: young girl falls in love with dreamy guy she met on the internet only to find out he's not who she thinks he is. In fact, the man she thinks is her very own knight-in-shining-armor Disney Prince is actually a serial killer who kidnaps (“collects”) young teenagers, dresses them as Disney princesses and kills them. The idea is that our character is the last of his victims and the player must find her before she meets her fate.  read more »

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