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Mystery Projects

heavy focus on a mystery, finding clues, and gaining answers for characters and audience

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Vox Chronos

9/24/24, 2:29 PM

The Vox Chronos project is an Alternate Reality Game with less emphasis on puzzles and ciphers and more on stenography and hiding clues to the story and information on what's happening in the details. It is designed with theorizing and player interaction with the characters in mind.

mystery-puzzle, ARG, multiplat, sci-fi, writing

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INTERLOPER: Half-Life 2's Greatest Unsolved Mystery

9/24/24, 12:32 PM

Anomi discovers an ongoing mystery that has never been solved. In the video game Half-Life 2. he finds a graffiti of a man holding an umbrella that shows up once every year. He goes into the game files to see the graffiti in full only to discover a secret that maaaybe shouldn't have been revealed.

mystery-horror-drama, interactive project, YT, valvepunk not steampunk

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F4CE Codex

5/31/24, 8:10 AM

F4CE is a hacker who delivers pizza for an offbeat pizza place with eccentric owners called The Pandora Twins. Things in his life start to intensify when he manages to steal some encrypted data from some government men during a delivery. At first he thinks he’ll just be exposing truths the government never wanted revealed and recruit other “online” people (4gents of kh40s) to help him. When he follows the data to a meeting site, he discovers the government has been hiding a whole ‘nother dimension. A mysterious pop-up ad that changes and can’t be removed reveals existential threats may be around every corner.

mystery-puzzle-drama, ARG, mutliplat, blog, men in black, pizza time

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Field Studies Institute

5/31/24, 8:04 AM

The Field Studies Institute collects and studies objects from another reality; what they call a Spacetime Deviation. Two members of the Archives Division work to digitize the collection of transient objects, which collectively tell the story of this other reality, and the characters who seemingly don't belong there.

mystery, immersive narrative, website, multimedia, actual physical items to players!

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In Search of Answers

5/31/24, 7:48 AM

Someone wakes up somewhere they don't recognize. What's even more mysterious, though, is how they can't move forward more than a few steps. What exactly is going on?

mystery-psych, immersive narrative, YT

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The Lurker

5/31/24, 7:30 AM

The Lurker is a mystery interactive story hosted on a blog following the owner Arbor as he documents odd things happening in the National Park he works in. The story starts with Arbor's friend Connor breaks into a restricted area in the park as a way to boost his following online, but now finds himself stalked by something that has made that part of the park its home. Now Arbor must discover long lost secrets of the park while trying to keep the public updated.

mystery-horror, interactive project, blog, docu-horror

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Cradle of Thought and Omen Archives

3/4/24, 1:02 AM

The Cradle of Thought and Omen is an organization dedicated to the successful documentation of Omens that have been overlooked or forgotten in the past. Omens, or paranormal events that have taken place on Earth, have caused quite a shift in recent years, unfortunately pointing to an increase in their presence. To make matters worse, a culmination of them has been discovered somewhere at this time. The organization’s goal is to gain and publish information so that they are closer to understanding and documenting what eludes them.

mystery, interactive project, multiplat, spooky archives, multimedia

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Armitage Account

3/4/24, 12:38 AM

The Armitage Account is a horror anthology podcast that utilizes an ARG as a frame device. This ARG provides further context to an already rich narrative with a 7 episode run.

mystery-horror, ARG, multiplat, podcast, cosmic horror, Lovecraftian

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