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Experience Design • Alternate Reality Gaming • Transmedia Storytelling

Brooke Thompson is a freelance experience designer specializing in alternate reality gaming, transmedia storytelling, and real world play. A pioneer in the field, she has nearly ten years experience that includes a number of award-winning projects.

Month: February, 2007

A million penguins typing…

Penguin Books has set out to see if the novel, an art form so thought of as a singular endeavor, is immune to the benefits and enjoyments of social collaboration. Is it possible for just anyone to contribute to the writing and editing. Talk about Chaotic Fiction! The experiment, A Million Penguins, began last week [...]

Common Sense

Last week, we had Boston’s reaction to the Aqua Teen Hunger Force guerrilla marketing campaign. This week, we have Portsmouth, NH’s reaction to a geocache.
Common sense, people.
Do not put light brights on highway overpasses and do not duct tape Altoid tins to electrical panels.
I’m not saying this because it could lead to a “chilling effect.” [...]

Overreaction – ARGs & guerrilla marketing

As we all know by now, there was a little incident in Boston last week. Something about a non-bomb with a light bright-esque cartoon alien. The internet is a buzz. The blog world is going crazy over the idea that a few glowing signs could cause so much fear – I mean, really, does no [...]

Brooke ThompsonHi! I'm an experience designer specializing in transmedia storytelling & alternate reality gaming. If you want to know more about that, check out my bio or portfolio. I'm more likely to speak in 140 characters or less than I am to write out a full blog post, so if you're interested in my thoughts, you might want to follow me on twitter.

Featured Projects

  • ARGFest
  • Eldritch Errors
  • Project Abraham
  • Why So Serious
  • Board 2 Street

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