Be Afraid Dark Man
Blogging the Dark Art ARG Week Two Be afraid Dark Man. We’re coming after you. Saturday we started sifting through the clues to solve the murders in the Personal Effects:Dark Art Novel. This is the most fun I’ve ever had reading a book. This is Violet, checking some facts. Wait, what’s that over her shoulder? I didn’t see that when I snapped the picture! Our sleuth headquarters has great atmosphere. Our notes and clues. Tracking clues online. Caroline and the body pic. Now this is one that Kelly liberated from the Brinkvale Site back in January I think. They locked down the login right after that, so we assumed we…
Blogging the Dark Art ARG: Reading in the next Dimension
Picture this, an outdoor cafe on a sunny Saturday in June, friends meeting for coffee, burgers, and the taste of another reality. The WiFi connection provides our portal to another world. We’re deep in the story now, and it feels like going to a movie and being able to step through the screen to interact with characters and the set. We’re reading the new interactive novel, Personal Effects: Dark Art,by J.C. Hutchins. We pass props around, make notes on legal pads or the backs of envelopes or on napkins. This is like no book we’ve ever read. And while we read the book itself the way we’ve always read stories,…
Another solve for Romance Writer’s team
Kelly Jamieson and I have been dabbling with the Personal Effects: Dark Art ARG. The Gamer Geeks had a big head start on us and I don’t know how we managed to come out in front on this one. The clue was left on business cards distributed at the Game Developers Conference® in March. I never saw it until I visited the the Pixelvixen707 website yesterday afternoon. I cracked the code on the business card last night. I had a note in my email this morning that I was the first to get the answer. I really needed a solvable problem. Thanks Rachael and thanks to the Dark Art ARG…