Just came across this article on Wired about an “alternate reality game” called I Love Bees:
- I Love Bees is the latest and perhaps most ambitious of the growing genre known as alternate-reality games. In it, widely dispersed players coordinate to find and answer thousands of ringing pay phones all across the United States and provide correct answers to recorded questions.
When all the answers have been supplied, the latest episode in an internet-based War of the Worlds-esque radio serial is unlocked and made available to its rabid fans.
It sounds kind of cool and kind of nerdishly lame at the same time:
- Six main characters from the year 2552 prepare for a great war in the storyline. Each time a player correctly answers a pay-phone question, he or she is treated to 30 seconds of new material. Over the course of the game, the plot unfolds, revealing a menacing alien army that threatens 26th-century Earth and only intervention from the past can help.
Oh wait, apparently it’s connected to the marketing campaign for the sure-to-be-awesome Xbox game Halo 2 which is supposed to come out early November, finally. Weird. Good for them, I guess.
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