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.

 


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