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title: "Ong’s Hat: Alternative Reality Games Are Not Games"
url: "https://josephmatheny.com/2022/10/03/ongs-hat-alternative-reality-games-are-not-games/"
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updated: "2022-10-03T17:11:14+00:00"
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# Ong’s Hat: Alternative Reality Games Are Not Games

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We discuss an early example of the Alternative Reality Game genre of multimedia participatory “fiction.”

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The Long Seventies Podcast is an in-depth historical exploration of all things 1970’s, including politics, film, television, literature, music, culture, science and artistic/philosophical movements