alternate reality game

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alternate reality game (plural alternate reality games)

  1. An interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs various media to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.
    Synonym: ARG
    • 2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in Wired[1], →ISSN:
      Which is what gave Hon the shock of recognition: QAnon was behaving precisely like an alternate-reality game, or ARG.

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