alternate reality game

English

Noun

alternate reality game (plural alternate reality games)

1. An interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs various media to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.

   Synonym: ARG

   • 2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in Wired‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Which is what gave Hon the shock of recognition: QAnon was behaving precisely like an alternate-reality game, or ARG.

Translations

Translations

• French: ARG (fr) m, jeu vidéo à réalité intégrée (fr) m (very rare), JRI (fr) m (very rare)
• Portuguese: jogo de realidade alternativa m, ARG m

Further reading

• alternate reality game on Wikipedia.Wikipedia