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[black-salt-cage]

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[howtowhumpyourhiccup]

ARGs and analog horrors that I've seen now and my experience with them:

The Backrooms (where my journey started!)

The Mandela Catalogue (tv doppelgangers haunt town, potential bodysnatcher situation, also the Holy Mary plays a role somehow?)

Happy Meat Farms (unexpectedly deep rabbit hole!)

Welcome Home (Wally is my special boy despite the devil imagery, also why are all the other puppets' intros in past-tense?)

Vita Carnis (meat. to eat or be eaten, Trimmings are cute in the ugly way)

The Monument Mythos (There's a monster beneath Lady Liberty and other secrets the American government hides from you!)

I Am Sophie (psychological horror!)

The Walten Files (FNAF)

The Other Guy's Files (also FNAF)

The Other Other Guy's Files (they all blend in to the point that I'm not even sure there's three anymore. also FNAF)

Local58 ("the moon's haunted")

Gemini Home Entertainment (EW EW EW EW, MAKE IT GO AWAY!)

Any others I need to know about?

#args #alternate reality games #analog horror #the backrooms #the mandela catalogue #happy meat farms #welcome home #vita carnis #the monument mythos #i am sophie #the walten files #local58 #Gemini home entertainment

[sashasparrow]

listen to me. listen to me with your people ears and understand me with your so-smart brains that lie between them.

unfiction is fiction with meta- or extra-textual elements, frequently including puzzle solving or the pretense of communication with the story itself, but it does not require that the audience behaves as though the story is the reality in which they live.

an ARG is an Alternate Reality Game, a genre of unfiction that requires that the audience both participates with the story and behaves as though that story is their lived reality, and cannot acknowledge its own fiction. see also: TINAG/This Is Not A Game.

if your weird internet story does not have meta-textual/extra-textual elements and instead just requires the internet as a medium, it's internet fiction.

#unfiction #weird fiction #internet fiction #alternate reality games #don't even get me started on analog horror we'll be here all week

[charaznablescanontoyota]

Send me your ARGs

hello! i do a podcast that summarizes ARGs. it's called ARGonauts.

i am looking for the creators/participants of FINISHED or INDEFINITELY HIATUSED/DEFUNCT ARGs to send suggestions for games that we should cover! the more documentation/outline of the game you have, the better--a lot of my work hinges on using other peoples' documentation to put a full story together.

if you have an ARG you'd like to throw into the running to be on ARGonauts, here are the two steps you can take:

check our back catalog (linked above) to make sure we haven't already covered it

email all the documentation you have on the ARG to [email protected]

it's that easy! please send me more ARGs! i really want to talk about them!

#args #arg #alternate reality game #alternate reality games

[existentialterror]

getting into an ARG mood lately. who has a good one. anyone wanna talk about ARGs

#arg #alternate reality games #light writes

[iforgiv3u]

Can any of you guys link me to new, ongoing or recently finished ARG’s?? No qualifications I just need content

Internet horror/unfiction is welcome too!!!

Thanks <3

#alternative reality #alternate reality games #args #marble hornets #everymanhybrid #horror #internet horror #analog horror #unfiction #unfiction forums #something awful

[marywoodartdept]

Odd Interests

If you're a fan of odd interests like ARGs and other internet oddities, you'll love reading this week's blog post by Mila, our On Campus Art News blogger. Dive with Mila into the world of Analog Horror, a sub-genre of horror fiction & found footage film.

For a long time I’ve been invested into internet oddities ranging from group writing projects such as the SCP Foundation to more obscure media like alternate reality games, commonly referred to as ARGs. Within the past several years I’ve become enamored with analog horror. Analog horror can be described as storytelling typically through the means of 1960s-1990s technology. Think of it as an…

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#alternate reality games #Analog #analog horror #ARGs #Art #art projects #existentialism #Horror #Illustration #indie film #mandela catalogue #Marywood Art #Marywood Art Department #Marywood University #Marywood University Art Department #Real World #scp foundation #storytelling #video editing #vita carnis #walten files #welcome home #Where Creativity Works #YouTube

[givemeureyes]

i really hope at some point thesunvanished gets more popular because it is SO criminally underrated

#tsv #the sun vanished #thesunvanished #tsv abdiel #tsv danyon #tsv nat #tucker tsv #arg #alternate reality game #alternate reality games #twitter

[shiina-markov]

Garden of Forking Paths is now open to the public! The invite is for 7 days. This is an archive community for non-traditional, immersive, and interactive media.

#ARG #AlternateRealityGames #Unfiction #ImmersiveMedia #archive

https://discord.gg/sfMBMsEE

#ARG #alternate reality games #unfiction #immersive media #transmedia #multimedia #archive

[jonnyblackwrites]

Another post up on my site for the ARG and Unfiction lovers! Click Here to read for FREE!

#ARG #unfiction #alternate reality games #my writing #jonnyblackwrites #every page view helps! thank you so much! #medium.com #medium writer #medium writers

[katy-133]

Tom: I don't want to talk about credit card information over the phone. Anne: (Groaning) Aye yai yai. You're being ridiculous. Me, listening in on their phone conversation with a pen and notepad:

#XD #This House Has People In It #alternate reality games #meme joke

[somedudenamedanthony]

My mom: Exuse my son, he has ADHD and even I don't know what he's talking about

Me: *ranting about the overlap between Liminal Space, The Uncanny Valley, Analog Horror, and ARGs, and how much I think Amanda the Adventurer would be better if it had CDs*

My mom: He got it from his father, though that's usually more Rugby related

#ADHD #hyperfixation #horror #analog horror #liminal spaces #Alternate reality games #arg #the uncanny valley #she's done with my shit

[howtowhumpyourhiccup]

ARGs and analog horror definitely has variety. From old Sesame Street-like tv-shows with puppets being "rediscovered" to "meat creatures that suddenly popped up around the time of World War I that no one does anything about and people even seem to keep as pets even though several subspecies of this creatures definitely eat humans. Oh and an old children's story exists that definitely talks about the relationship of humans and the Vita Carnis."

And yet, it's the Monument Mythos that was absolutely the wildest to me so far, though it's arguably the one that sticks closest to "real life."

#args #alternate reality games #analog horror #welcome home #vita carnis #the monument mythos #i tend to stick these two genres into the same box #because it's really hard to figure out which ones an arg and which ones just analog horror #because they both use the same medias and args tend to use a lot of analog as well

[sashasparrow]

like seriously what DOES unfiction look like without social media? what does interactive fiction look like without a centralized space for said interaction? how do people find new fiction to interact WITH? and yeah we have like major creators in those spaces, but i don't want to rely on insert-youtuber-here to find me new and interesting stories. we've been doing our best as a community without the unfiction forums and archives, but i feel like unfiction as a whole has been stymied by an ever-narrowing river of avenues of availability.

#unfiction #alternate reality games #if u call any kind of interactive fiction 'analog horror' dni lmao #like it's never really taken off on tumblr or facebook for obvious reasons #so really it's just been twt/yt for the last 15 years #so what's next?

[fleabitecomics]

My story.

Hey there, Tumblr world! ✌️

I'm Shadow, and I'm one of those early 20s jaded souls trying to navigate this crazy thing called life. Recently, something happened that's been keeping me up at night, and I thought it's time to share the whole crazy story with you all.

My dear friend went missing, guys. Like, poof—vanished. It's got me on edge, and it's left me with this gnawing feeling in my gut that just won't quit. You know that sense of dread? It's been my constant companion lately. 💔

The thing is, her last known location was near this shady place called Fleabite's Fun-House. 🤡 Yeah, you heard me right. It's one of those retro-themed nightmares with creepy-ass plushies they call "Morons". Seriously, they're all over the place, and it's freakin' weird. 😨

I can't help but wonder if this twisted carnival of horrors has anything to do with her disappearance. But let's not jump to conclusions just yet. Maybe I've seen too many conspiracy theories on the internet. 🤯

As I dug into the history of Fleabite's Fun-House and Fleabite himself, I realized I was going to have to do some serious sleuthing. There's a shroud of secrecy around this place, like someone doesn't want Fleabite to resurface.

Fleabite wasn't just a children's character. There's a whole messed-up story behind him, the disappearance of those kids, and the bizarre Moron plushies. 🤡 And trust me, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Now, I don't claim to be some sort of detective, but I'm not one to sit around twiddling my thumbs either. I'm going to explore this place, talk to locals, and see if there's anything, anything at all, that can give me a clue about my friend's whereabouts.

In the meantime, I'm finding old "Ouch" comics. I'll be posting when I find new ones.

#arg horror #horror arg game #arg game #arg horror amusement park #creepy pasta #alternate reality games #new alternate reality games #new arg games #new arg horror games

[existentialterror]

Light's ARG (?) Notes: God Sngol lognS

(I am assuming this is an unfiction project because it has some of the hallmarks: advertising, numbered journal entries, mysterious vibes, a prominent password-locked page... However, if I'm wrong and this is just someone's, like, personal website + philosophy, my apologies for assuming it's anything else. You should explain your stopping time thing though because it seems cool.)

God Sngol lognS / sngollogns.com is an unfiction project I ran into on reddit. Other people have found it through tiktok ads. I was immediately tickled by its use of LaTeX. Like yeah man, alright, I'll hear you out.

The big feature of the website is the "speed of life" PDF, screenshotted above.. The author claims to have paused time, which happens in a 1990-year cycle, in 2023.

The site has a number of PDFs, numbered and labeled "God's Journal Entry #". Some are visible now. Some were uploaded on past versions of the site and preserved in the Internet Archive but are not visible on current versions. Some seem to be visible through the store.

(By the way, PSA, BE CAREFUL ABOUT DOWNLOADING STRANGE PDFS! You can fit a lot of malware in those bad boys. In this case I rolled the dice on it and now have more reason than usual to think they're safe, but if you do the same then you should be aware you're rolling dice.)

Since the outset of its current version, the website has had a password-locked page called "ATLAS". The password is the big mystery. We have tried lots of concepts and words from the site, and some people have even thrown password dictionaries into it, to no avail so far.

Themes found throughout the site and the journals include progress for humanity, death and rebirth, and a trinity of god's scales, god's sword/lightning, and god's eye. The Speed of Life doc says: "If no one else can pick it up… then I will hold this gift up." It evokes the titan Atlas, the name of the locked page.

(The other password locked page, "Planetary Prize in X" was unlocked as of a couple weeks ago. It consisted of some PDFs of prizes the author had awarded to different people - "the Hubble Space Telescope Team" got a "Planetary Prize in Discovery" "In recognition of their legendary contributions to humanity", for instance.)

My tentative read on the story: I think the site's creator ("God Sngol lognS") believes they are the rebirth of Christ and have frozen a longstanding cycle of Messianic arrivals, perhaps allowing humanity to progress forwards. (The site has been around for a couple years but the ads went around on Easter!) They have now moved on to encouraging humanity's progress in other ways.

Right, yes, there is a store. The store sells a number of numbered items (more journal entries?) that cost $100 dollars each and are not yet available. The one item that costs less is "A cup of coffee" that costs $10 and is available now. Someone in the solving discord I'm in did in fact buy it. They got a pdf numbered God's Journal Entry #21 that said "I find it rather poetic. =)" and "Thanks!" So I think they probably just paid $10 to the owner of a fun website, which, well, there are worse things to pay $10 for.

Anyway, this is an odd one because there is a fair amount of material, and the vibes and details are strange and interesting, but we just... haven't made progress on what would appear to be the main step mystery. Still, the site's energy is great, and it appears to be a long-running project.

For future reference, some things I have already tried and have not found obvious clues in:

Any source code

The file hex of the pdfs

Embedded files or messages in the PDFs themselves

Any of the site's embedded images

The most active solving community for this that I'm aware of is the Nightmare Keys Investigation discord. (I'm hanging out in here but I do not run this discord, join at your own risk, it's an ARG enthusiast discord run by youtuber Nightmare Keys). There's a google drive in there with notes, copies of a bunch of pdfs and backups of the site, etc etc.

If you figure out the passwords, let me know. If you're the site owner and you want people to figure out the passwords, maybe make it easier to guess? elaboration below the cut:

There's a thing with passwords where, like, if you think the password is "sngol logns", you can write that out a LOT of different ways:

Sngol lognS

Sngol Logns

sngol logns

SNGOL LOGNS

SngollognS

SngolLogns

sngollogns

SNGOLLOGNS

sngol_logns

ETC...

and I worry that the password is like one of these things we've tried before but formatted in a slightly different way. This is your project and you should do as you like and possibly nobody has even hit upon it yet but I'm just telling you, I'm not going to try any more variations of things I've already guessed, I'm gonna be holding out for new information or ideas.

#light writes #alternate reality games #unfiction #arg #god sngol logns #sngollogns #light's ARG notes #alternate models