The Zombie Uprising

There has been a lot of talk about how alternate reality games can be used in “crowdsourcing” – from World Without Oil and Ruby’s Bequest to Superstruct and Coral Cross, futurists have been using community participation games to explore the numerous ways that people may handle or react to a specific scenario. That’s pretty cool and pretty serious stuff, but it made me wonder… can an alternate reality game, so often steeped in mystery with puppetmasters hidden behind a curtain, be designed, created, and played by a crowd?

(I know, I think too much)

So, late one night I realized that thezombieuprising.com was available and that it was the perfect domain (and theme!) to answer that very question that’s been haunting me for months. Over the next few weeks, opportunities to get involved will reveal themselves and before long we should have ourselves one heck of a game to play!