{"id":23,"date":"2008-07-08T12:43:34","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-07-08T12:43:34","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T19:43:34","slug":"choose-your-own-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Choose Your Own Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was just talking with another designer here at work, and one thing she said is something that is vital to ARG design:<\/p>\n<p>It is important to let the players have the narrative of the story. <\/p>\n<p>Pushing the narrative, especially through meta-communication (asserting excessive control through the in-game conduits, or through out-of-game methods) can have a pretty distinct chilling effect on the immersive nature of the experience. <\/p>\n<p>(Maaaan, I had several more paragraphs written here, but I just deleted them because I can&#8217;t make a succinct enough point, and there are dudes jackhammering and sawing right outside my window here in the office. Anyway, I&#8217;ll just leave the basic concept note there, and if I come back to it, I come back to it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just talking with another designer here at work, and one thing she said is something that is vital to ARG design: It is important to let the players have the narrative of the story. Pushing the narrative, especially through meta-communication (asserting excessive control through the in-game conduits, or through out-of-game methods) can have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.glitterbook.com\/arg\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}