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Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

2013

Alternate Reality Game

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The Design Of An Alternate Reality Game As Capstone Course In A Multimedia Post-Graduate Degree, Koos De Beer, Marlene Holmner Apr 2013

The Design Of An Alternate Reality Game As Capstone Course In A Multimedia Post-Graduate Degree, Koos De Beer, Marlene Holmner

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Department of Information Science, University of Pretoria offers a unique undergraduate and post graduate programme in Multimedia which focuses on aspects of IT that require both creativity and logical thinking. These skills enable students to build and design multimedia products, thus consolidating technology and visual design. One of the Honours (fourth year) programme modules requires the students to consolidate and use all knowledge and skills obtained in the three year degree to successfully design and implement an Alternate Reality Game (ARG).

An ARG is a game that uses interactive fiction, integrated with reality, as its narrative and context. The …