"I am a game designer with experience in a very small niche. I create and research games designed to be played in reality. I’ve worked in Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), LARPs, experience fiction, interactive theater, and “serious games”. Stories and games that can start on a computer, and finish in the real world. Fictions designed to feel as real as possible. Games that teach you. Puzzles that come to life all around the players. Games where the deeper you dig, the more you find. Games with rabbit holes that invite you into wonderland and entice you through the looking glass. When I saw QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music) QAnon has often been compared to ARGs and LARPs and rightly so. It uses many of the same gaming mechanisms and rewards. It has a game-like feel to it that is evident to anyone who has ever played an ARG, online role-play (RP) or LARP before. The similarities are so striking that it has often been referred to as a LARP or ARG. However this beast is very very different from a game..." Reed Berkowitz. Read the rest
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:
APOPHENIA
In unrelated things, you perceive a commonality
Building a breadcrumb trail, away from reality
The players create it
All looking to spot
The journey is the point
There's no bigger plot
Apophenia is leading you
To join the dots and build the pictures
Seems there are some scenes for you
Interpretations of the scriptures
Leading you and deceiving you
Seeing what you want to believe in
Lyrics to the song that was inspired by the interview:The correct answers are the ones, that resonate with most
That boost the group's objectives, they get the most kudos
The longer you play
The greater your role
The further we all go
Down the white rabbit hole
Apophenia is leading you
To join the dots and build the pictures
Seems there are some scenes for you
Interpretations of the scriptures
leading you and deceiving you
Seeing what you want to believe in
The stage must be set, for a new reality
Crumbs are easy to swallow, but will lead you astray
IF you fall in with the rest, following the hordes
Don't believe all you see, on the message boards
Apophenia is leading you
To join the dots and build the pictures
Seems there are some scenes for you
Interpretations of the scriptures
leading you and deceiving you
Seeing what you want to believe in