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Mystery Projects

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

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bighead_hello

12/27/20, 8:43 PM

A little girl enters the world of Instagram in search of friends. Equally curious and slightly helpless, she hopes to find those who can aid her in navigating the site as well as solving the mystery of her origin. Visual clues and interaction by players will provide further understanding of the narrative and will come in handy in helping her figure problems out as she encounters them.

mystery-drama, interactive, higher entities, illustrated comic, quirky

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Box Elder Public Library

12/27/20, 8:34 PM

[COMPLETED ARG] A librarian in the small town of Box Elder is trapped alone inside his library. The audience are library patrons who can talk to him. To get out, he has to solve the mystery of how an apartment flooded a year ago. But the flood seems to come from nowhere, disappears as suddenly as it appears - and witnesses who say something entirely different happened know a lot more than they let on.

mystery-psych, arg, website, text, flood?, project complete

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GPReeds

11/22/20, 11:24 AM

Four stupid, smart kids grow up in the country. One of them has a cool, military grandfather. They end up spending a lot of time with him, because his studies match their interests. His associates work with the dumb, smart kids and find that they are capable of doing real research. The house burns down, and the only clue to the origin of the fire is a bottle of brandy found on the kitchen table.

mystery, ARG, multiplat, two-sided story

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5:58

11/22/20, 9:11 AM

5:58 takes place in June of 2000 from the viewpoint of a man named Alexander Inglourn, who once worked and was associated with an underground cult. He is uncertain of his whereabouts, the date, and time. All Alex knows is that although time is passing, the darkness and time remains at 5:58.

mystery-horror-puzzle, ARG, YT, cult, time

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Boulevard LN

11/1/20, 3:13 PM

Boulevard is a long-term webcomic heavily based off recorded stories kept by the author, Ashleniza. 5 years ago she promised to her friend, Aaron, that she would release these stories. Beginning with the first recording of a mass murderer in the town that doesn't exist, every Friday upload reveals more and more of what really happened on Boulevard LN.

mystery-horror, immersive narrative, webtoons, comic

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Beta 95

11/1/20, 2:32 PM

When Lucas Orwell gets a mysterious unlabeled disc case in the mail, he almost throws it away, until he sees "ALEX", his father's name, written on the disc. As he plays through the game his situation soon becomes clear, soon paranormal and powerful entities and people begin to invade his life, and he tries to piece together who created the game, why it's creator "E" is trying to track him down, and what happened to his father in 2008 that caused him to go missing without a trace.

mystery-puzzle-horror, interactive, YT, disappearance mystery

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ILL

10/2/20, 4:28 AM

After 9 year old Abigail discovers a hidden computer game disk within her Christmas tree, it spirals down a rabbit hole of deep family issues, childhood trauma, and dark secrets. Now, 20 years later, her father is determined to finish what he started.

mystery-puzzle-horror, ARG, multi-plat, video game, family history

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Mossflower Pictures

10/2/20, 4:11 AM

This is a fantasy journey that puts you in the story as the main character, interacting with mermaids, chatty rodents, and mystical powers. Puzzles and clues will need to be solved in order to progress the storyline. This adventure takes place across several different mediums/formats but consistently returns to the website and Instagram page.

mystery, ARG, multiplat, art, instagram, website

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