Image courtesy of mikew4 at TradeMe
This link crossed my path this week, from New Zealand's version of eBay, www.trademe.co.nz (thanks Hayden). Not only is the auction quite humorous (even down to the seller's question and answer section), you can now also buy a tee shirt from the 'Scary Washing Machine' range at Mr Vintage. The pictured dinosaur is also for sale on TradeMe.
Check out the auction, it closes on the 18th June and the bid at the time of writing was already $241 - a jump from the $15 bucks I saw it at yesterday!
World Without Oil is a 'serious alternate reality game', which was imagined and chronicled online in 1500 stories from participants around the world.
Ordinary people were approached to tell 'their' story of the 'world oil crisis' that was occuring within the game.
In an ARG you play as yourself, in any medium in which you want to communicate - blog, email, video, phone, comics, etc. As players imagined how they would need to deal with their lives in an oil crisis, they recorded and submitted their 'experience'.
Some players actually made changes in their everyday lives - how they sourced food, how they got to work, etc. This is such a great example of how playing a game can have a positive and educational outcome, something that I am a part of with my work at Straylight Studios.
