Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay

by Antero García

Book Overview

Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) challenge what players understand as "real." Alternate Reality Games and the Cusp of Digital Gameplay is the first collection to explore and define the possibilities of ARGs. Though prominent examples have existed for more than two decades, only recently have ARGs come to the prominence as a unique and highly visible digital game genre. Adopting many of the same strategies as online video games, ARGs blur the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501347195
• ISBN13: 9781501347191
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"