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JEEP BARNETT ADAM FOSTERKYLE DAVISVALVE
PORTAL 2 AND TF2ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES Q&A
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Why ARG?• Fictional Grounding• Retrospect• Historical Research• New Content• Call to Action• Rewards
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Some ARGs• ApertureScience.com• Portal 2 ARG• Potato Sack• Pyromania ARG• Mann vs Machine ARG
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ApertureScience.com•Flash Website•Hacking Terminal•Questionnaire•“The Cake is a Lie”•Rattman Password•Companion Cube’s Holiday Vault•Cave Johnson
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Portal 2 ARG•Radio Signal Minigame•SSTV Images•Hashed BBS Number•ASCII Screenshots•Modified Ending
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Potato Sack•Potato Fools’ Day•Glyphs•Aperture Logins•Concept Art•Seattle Map Locations•New Content for 13 Games•“Nelipot” & Dinosaur•GLaDOS@Home
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Pyromania ARG•Mystery Items
•Goldfish•Banana Peel•Damaged Capacitor•Etc.
•Eliminating the Impossible•Banana Crafting•Poopy Joe•Ash Piles
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Mann vs Machine ARG•Carrier Tanks•Gray Mann in Will•Melted Capacitor Equipping•High Fives•“Walked into a bar,” Joke•PGP Wordlist•Final Recipe•Blood Brothers Alert
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Some Takeaways• Different Scopes• Callbacks• Verifiable Redundancy• Levels of Participation
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JEEP & ADAMF & [email protected]
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ASCII CAKEApertureScience.com
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RATTMAN PASSWORDApertureScience.com
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HOLIDAY VAULTApertureScience.com
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ADAM’S BBSPortal 2 ARG
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SSTV IMAGESPortal 2 ARG
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GLYPHSPotato Sack
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SEATTLE MAPPotato Sack
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POTATO SACK BUNDLEPotato Sack
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BOX CONCEPTPotato Sack
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Potato Sack
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COURT LEDGERPyromania ARG
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POOPY JOEPyromania ARG
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PYROLANDPyromania ARG
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MACHINE PHOTOSMann vs Machine ARG
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ROBOT HEADSMann vs Machine ARG
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MANN WILLMann vs Machine ARG