{"id":59,"date":"2007-10-01T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-01T10:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tmachine1.dh.bytemark.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/how-to-become-an-arg-designer-design-a-game-to-cure-cancer\/"},"modified":"2007-10-01T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-01T10:54:59","slug":"how-to-become-an-arg-designer-design-a-game-to-cure-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2007\/10\/01\/how-to-become-an-arg-designer-design-a-game-to-cure-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to become an ARG designer (Design a game to cure cancer)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ARG as in Alternate Reality Game, of course&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.letschangethegame.org\/\">http:\/\/www.letschangethegame.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new ARG project from Adrian and Dan, in aid of Cancer Research UK. Great to hear they&#8217;ve got this off the ground, it looks like it&#8217;s going to be fantastic. But it could also become the biggest event in helping new ARG designers a chance to get their feet wet since the start of Unfiction and ARGN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People always used to ask me<br \/>\nhow they could become ARG designers, and I would always say that they<br \/>\nshould try and gain experience &#8211; but with such a small field, the<br \/>\nonly way to do that is through grassroots games. While people might<br \/>\nhave plenty of time to volunteer, grassroots games still cost *some*<br \/>\nmoney which people often can&#8217;t spare. This is a way to give lots of<br \/>\npeople experience in thinking about game design, and one team the<br \/>\nopportunity to make a really significant game. &#8212; Adrian Hon, Six to Start<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ARG as in Alternate Reality Game, of course&#8230;) http:\/\/www.letschangethegame.org\/ A new ARG project from Adrian and Dan, in aid of Cancer Research UK. Great to hear they&#8217;ve got this off the ground, it looks like it&#8217;s going to be fantastic. But it could also become the biggest event in helping new ARG designers a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,9,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}