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Carry a Poem: hot off the pixels! by Eireann. WAKE UP EDINBURGH. The hunt for the poem has begun. That's right, your own, homegrown, Edinburgh-based, literary and historically themed ARG is running for the entire month of February. It's over at this lovely blog site and needs more people to create a buzz about it. As if ARGS aren't their own reward there are even prizes to the first people to discover each line of a poem that is lost in history. So get hunting! more... Upcoming playtime in Edinburgh by Eireann. Down at the BRD a mate and I have been working away to bring you a little light parlour gaming. While rolling dice, and laying down hands, Cam and I started talking about game ideas. Cam and I found ourselves more excited about designing a game than playing the card game we were. So we quit, and got on with some design. That design should reach fruition for this week. more... Looking back on your choices by Eireann. So last week I gave you players a Rabbit Hole, and this week, I want to drop some analysis for Game Designers. Occasionally when I'm suited up and out there on my travels into the blogosphere I find some really interesting research. This is the kind of stuff Hanna usually springs on me when we're chatting, and forces me to drop game mechanics in favour of usability white-papers, or analysis of what a game 'means', or most often just a history of our weird and diverse pursuits. Can you tell I'm starting to miss our upstart academic? more... Rabbit holes abound. by Eireann. Now that Hanna is busy doing a PhD, I find myself with less impetus to write. Where's the fire, where's the debate, where's the fun!? Well, when I find myself lonely in ARGland, I look for a new rabbit-hole. more... Three little games as social experiments... by Eireann. So far we've discussed games that are *designed*, but some games evolve. Like truth or dare between childhood friends that grows as they do. Betting siblings or in-jokes at the factory, dadaist theatre sports and flashmobbing. I grant you many of these are not quite ARGs by Hanna's definition, but they all can be components or scenes of one. more... Is bigger always better? by Hanna. One of the things we are interested in here at Everyone is Playing is local ARGs. Meaning games that we play here, in our city, on our streets. Smaller games, that have a beginning and an end. Games that you can play in a day, and then go home with a great experience. more... RSS

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