alternate reality game en · NOUN
Meanings
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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.
Which is what gave Hon the shock of recognition: QAnon was behaving precisely like an alternate-reality game, or ARG.
2020 September 22, Clive Thompson, “QAnon Is Like a Game—a Most Dangerous Game”, in WIRED, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 Feb 2021:
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| alternate reality games | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (6)
ja ARG (ē-āru-jī) (Translations) · pt jogo de realidade alternativa (Translations) · pt ARG (Translations) · fr JRI (Translations) · fr ARG (Translations) · fr jeu vidéo à réalité intégrée (Translations)