Perplex City gets live and interactive
by Jennie Lees 
{ Jan 16th 2006 at 11:00AM }
ARGs overlap with the
real world in many ways, not restricting themselves to a website or two to engage players totally. We've seen an
increase in live-action ARG events recently, with Last Call Poker featuring regular Tombstone Hold'em
sessions. Perplex City also entered
the fray with a live event last
year, but has been fairly quiet since then.Fortunately for those who missed it, there are two more Perplex City live events coming up in February, in both London and New York. The London event is billed as the "largest, smartest and most sophisticated live action urban game", and sounds like something not to be missed. We've taken part in similar live-action puzzle events before, and they are exhilarating, exhausting and brain-twisting--a cross between The Crystal Maze, Stanford's The Game, LARP and scavenger hunts, puzzle solving under pressure is worth a try if you're new to the idea.
[via Wonderland]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Garold @ Jan 16th 2006 6:06PM
I wouldn't really classify alternate reality games as video games. Just because they happen to use the Internet as a medium doesn't place them in the same category as web games and certainly not in the same category of console games. I think they're more along the lines of certain books, like that "Treasure's Trove" book, which had many clues to real treasures hidden within a story.