Just saw this story on Wired. Hadn't heard about anything like this. Very interesting. Participatory story telling. . . with a plot that it 2 parts War of the Worlds, and one part 12 monkeys.
More after the break. . .
"I Love Bees is the latest and perhaps most ambitious of the growing genre known as alternate-reality games. In it, widely dispersed players coordinate to find and answer thousands of ringing pay phones all across the United States and provide correct answers to recorded questions."
It's a game where you try to track down the location of the next "live" call that will be made to some random phone booth, where they are treated to the next installment of the "radio play."
Kinda like Geocaching, but with a scifi plot.
Very interesting. Sounds like a great idea.
Has anyone heard of this?
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Looks like Slashdot picked up the article.
Other alternative reality sites.
[http://www.argn.com] or
[http://www.unfiction.com]
story on wikipedia
Choice quote:
Some people have driven hours to take part, and one player even braved Florida's Hurricane Ivan to answer a call at a pay phone that was destroyed shortly afterward.
"Dude," said Puppetmaster 2, "it's a hurricane. Put the phone down." from TFA
As a resident of Northwest Florida (I stayed through the storm), I would actually ENCOURAGE idiots like this. "It's a fucking HURRICANE. Go play VR games!!!" ...do they give out assists for Darwin Awards?
What?
-so sayeth mirzu