029: A Passion For Making People Squirm

Our guest is Mike Selinker (Lone Shark Games Dot Com). Mike, whose puzzles appear regularly in GAMES magazine, The Chicago Tribune and The New York Times, talks with Steve and J.C. about his time at Wizards of the Coast, building ARGs like the one he did for Universal’s Repo Men, and his new book Maze

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013: Everyone Was Having Fun

Unfiction's Sean C. Stacey

We celebrate the 10th Anniversary of ARG websites Unfiction and ARGNet in this history-packed episode. Guests Sean C. Stacey (Unfiction), Jonathan Waite and Michael Andersen (ARGNet) join Steve and J.C. and look back at the early days of Alternate Reality Games. In this retrospective, they talk about highlights of the past 10 years, where things

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006: The Kind Folk Up In Canada

Jay Ferguson

In this jumbo-sized episode, hosts J.C Hutchins and Steve Peters spend some quality time with Jay Ferguson, the creator of the interactive thriller Guidestones, and Kate Sullivan of Candlemark & Gleam. Jay talks about his recent real-time webseries Guidestones, and Kate and J.C. talk about how transmedia is affecting new models of publishing. Links from

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ARGNetcast, Episode 127: Grassroots Serious Games

On this show, indie ARG producer Kyle Woollums  joins host Steve Peters (NoMimes Media), and talks about grassroots Serious Games, measures of success, and the unique opportunities and challenges of using games as an educational tool. Will ARGs replace field trips? Who needs more ARG education, students or their teachers? Tune in and find out! “Traditional

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