It's an area I've been covering for the last two years, which has taken me through wild horror experiences and
immersive alternate reality games where I became wrapped up in a «70s - style paranoid thriller.
Not exact matches
I've grown accustomed to playing myself in fictional scenarios through
immersive theater and
alternate reality games.
Many of these elements are familiar;
alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling have been around since the 1990s, and
immersive, site - specific theater is certainly nothing new.
For all its
immersive pleasures (and terrors), The Lust Experience
alternate reality game represents an enormous investment of time and attention into something that is ultimately word - of - mouth marketing for the ticketed events — though the creative team is quick to point out that the
immersive theater shows are also designed as stand - alone experiences that can be enjoyed by anyone.
Last year director Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw 2 - 4), writer Clint Sears, and producer Gordon Bijelonic debuted The Tension Experience, a nearly year - long project that combined an elaborate
alternate reality game about a fictional cult in Los Angeles with an
immersive theater production that ran during Halloween season.