Showing posts with label ARG news. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ARG news. Show all posts

Saturday, October 17, 2009

Viral marketing... ARG trailhead... or genuine phenomenon?

This site has taken the interwebz by storm and sparked up much interest.

thisman.org

According to the site, this man (referred to as "ThisMan") has appeared in the dreams of thousands of people all across the world. Mostly appearing as a benevolent force, he has appeared on multiple continents in many different dreams. The story begins-

In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams. In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life.

That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.

The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams.


We are then left to assume, that by word of mouth, this image is spread around like a chain letter and more people come forward to admit they have dreamt of this man.

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Greggallows just sent me this link to support the argument that this is in fact viral marketing/an ARG.
http://assme.org/2009/10/12/thisman-org-is-probably-viral-marketing-so-shut-up-and-quit-freaking-out-about-him/

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Behind the curtain news from Eldritch Errors

From: http://www.schmeldritch.com/2008/10/before-the-screaming-commences.html

Long time, no schmeldritch ... how the hell are you supposed to tell when we're being quiet on purpose and when it means something is kicking, you ask? When I feel compelled to get a quick laundry list out of details out, I guess. Bad puppetmaster!

Even more important, though, is a bit of pre-announcement on the Eldritch 3 Reboot. One of my goals for the Eldritch universe was always to have a structure flexible enough that we could have "guest puppetmasters" conduct entire Books in the sequence, much the way guest directors might helm an episode of an established television series. In this case, that means the best I'll be able to credit myself on this Book is as "series creator" or maybe "executive producer". Who's helming it then, you ask?

Brooke Thompson and Jan Libby. Boy are you guys in for a (trick or) treat. See you in the intermission ...