Witness Tree is an Alternate Reality Game I made for Greg Trefry’s ARG class while I was at ITP. Greg is the gy who started the Come Out & Play Festival which has been nominated for the 2008 Diana Jones Award for excellence in gaming.
The idea behind Witness Tree is pretty simple: I wanted to create an ARG that was more game like, that was all encompassing, and that didn’t require a rabbit hole to start playing. I also wanted a game that could be played by anyone, at anytime — not something space and time specific. So the form that I found to these functions was the blog form. In character, I created a blog to document the weird dreams the character was having related to a graveyard he had visited in the real world. It’s through these dreams and blog posts that a riddle is revealed that leads to a treasure. The story is told in 8 chapters along with 15 other brief posts. Give it a try and see if you can solve the logic puzzle.
