iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Rabbit rabbit rabbit! White rabbit for October is from nightmares 071
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Robert Eggers' flick for this Christmas, Werwulf, now has an alternate reality game: www.devourethallmankynde.com Timed to each of the full moons between September through November 2026 and 'culminates in a mysterious prize for those that complete all three moons each full moon.'devourethallmankynde.comDevoureth All MankyndeDrede Thou Not Derkness. Embrace Thou It. Werwulf is only in theaters December 25. 231
Reposted by iko huuhtanenSteve Senski's Watching @stevensenski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026It was 40 years ago today CBS unveiled Season 10 of DALLAS by revealing Season 9 had all been Pam's dream. 031
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026THE NEW YORK TIMES 100 BEST SHOWS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Countries of origin of the shows ranked, in order: US US US US UK US US US US US US UK US US US UK US UK UK UK US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US US UK US US UK US UK US US US UK US US UK US FRA US US US US US UK US [Contd.] 364
Reposted by iko huuhtanenImmersive Rumours @immersiverumours.com · 24/09/2026REVIEW: WhatsApp-based The Traitors: Anywhere will take over your life and have you questioning every friendship... www.immersiverumours.com/post/review-...immersiverumours.comReview: The Traitors Anywhere by CityDays - Immersive RumoursWith the finale of last year's The Celebrity Traitors drawing in nearly 15 million viewers, it's fair to say that the smash-hit BBC TV series is the closest thing we've got nowadays to appointment vie... 112
Reposted by iko huuhtanenGuy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 23/09/2026Once at a party I convinced someone that people called John Coltrane “Trane” because he loved trains so much. Happy 100th 🚂 071
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026'God Breathes Through the Holy Horn of St. John Coltrane' Icon for the Church of Coltrane (St. John Will-I-Am Coltrane African Orthodox Church) in San Francisco. Church website: www.coltranechurch.org John Coltrane, #botd 23 September 1926, would've been one hundred years old today. 061
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Nintendo was founded as Nintendo Koppai #otd 23 September 1889 by craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi in Kyoto to make playing cards by hand, most notably hanafuda. Image: Nintendo headquarters and workshop 1889–1930 040
Reposted by iko huuhtanenThe Séance of Blake Manor - COMING TO CONSOLES🔮 @blakemanorgame.bsky.social · 22/09/2026We're excited to see The Séance of Blake Manor at number 8 on the The Best Detective Horror Video Games, Ranked By Gamers by Ranker. www.ranker.com/list/detective-horro…ranker.comThe Best Detective Horror Video Games, Ranked By GamersThe Best Detective Horror Video Games, Ranked By Gamers, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: Alan Wake II, Observer: System Redux, Condemned: Criminal ... 15313
Reposted by iko huuhtanenC̵̡̡͇͍̦͕͓̮͉͆̿̿̾͌̐a̸̡̨̟͖̱̮͖̤͎͕̫̼̲̟͐̓̔̈́͐̃̇̏̚͠͝m̴̡̙͉͖̙̹̭̯̘̟͙̟̣͙̮̺̳̗̱̐̑̔͋̌̒̈́͒̿̄̉̋̃̔̑̊͐̇̑̓̕͠͠͝ͅê̷͇̽̈́̿̉͋́̂̑̋̈́̏̈̋̃͂̃͒̀̔͌̓͋͘ơ̶̢̺̪͆̋́̈́̓͆͒͗̒͂͑͌̀̀́̏̚͝ͅ ̶̨̺̹̲̘͍͖͔̣̐̔́͐̆̈́̈̐̀̽͂Ẃ̸̨̛̆̐̇̈́́́͑̽̎̀̏̏̇͋̋̑͂̕̚͝o̷̥̲̝͚̪̹̻̣̝͌͐̐̇͌̆̀̂̈́̐̂̌̈́́͆͠͝͝ǫ̴̧̡̡̛̘̘̣͇̻̮̩̙͕̦̠̩̻͓̞̖͓̟̱̓͗̐̽͌̿̍̇͋͗́̑̔̀̊̈́̒͊͠͠͠ͅd̷̨̜͚̳̠͓̖̰͔̳͎̙̩̟̪͚̜͗́͌̔̎͊͛͛̌̑̉̾̇̑̽̀̾̌̄̐͑͋͆͜͝͝͝ @cameowood.com · 13/09/2026Introducing 1337, a new immersive experience from @charmingstranger.com Someone joins the illegal conference call. Someone waits on the line. That’s the MENTOR, and we’re casting now! California-based actors: remote, paid, and closes Sept 30! Apply: 1337.show/casting #castingcallloom.ly1337 :: CASTING CALL — THE MENTORCharming Stranger is casting the MENTOR for 1337, a one-on-one interactive phone experience. Presented as part of Odyssey Works' New Frame program. 0114
Reposted by iko huuhtanenMichael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Thanks as always to @puzzlesnacks.bsky.social, for one of my favorite puzzling hobbies. www.puzzles.wiki/wiki/Spaghet...puzzles.wikiSpaghetti (game) - Puzzle WikiSpaghetti is a game invented by Eric Berlin involving creating metapuzzles on the fly using a randomly selected set of "answers". 021
Reposted by iko huuhtanenFrans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026It is great to hold our new book - Cultural Game Studies - on one’s hands, even if the Open Access pdf version will most likely be the most used edition. - Link to the Open Access book page below: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... 24717
Reposted by iko huuhtanenjwmuk ⚖️ GrogLaw 17 Oct @jwmuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Loved this game and it's partner game, Gumshoe... you may have come across this term 😜 052
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026In case you need this today, and are not driven to violent insanity by the sensory assault that is asmr, as one may be, if one is so inclined, here is: ASMR: The History of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) | Ear-to-ear Whispering m.youtube.com/watch?v=3As_...m.youtube.comASMR: The History of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) | Ear-to-ear WhisperingYouTube video by SomeReadingsASMR 030
Reposted by iko huuhtaneninkle @inkle.co · 09/09/2026New Kaleidoscope! A magical episode where poet and professor @axjacobs.bsky.social discusses the uses of poetry and spoken performance in game writing to deepen the world of the game, and to draw the player in. Listen here - www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope... 0247
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026King Harald of Norway, whose funeral is presently in procession in Oslo, carried on the Viking tradition by being an accomplished sailor. He represented his country in three Olympics, and was the One Ton class world champion with his crew in 1987. #wyrdwednesday 0113
Reposted by iko huuhtanenChloe Mashiter @chloemashiter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I'm doing a Halloween run of my haunted-Teletext larp TRANSMISSION! So excited that after years of developing it on and off, running it at festivals, I'll finally be doing a public run Group tix are on sale, w individual tix on sale 22nd Sep Info & tix here: everythingimmersive.com/events/trans... 196
Reposted by iko huuhtanenEric @yankeewhite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026New Control Resonant website found on posters around Portland, OR fbc.controlgame.comfbc.controlgame.comCitizen Safety Guide 121
Reposted by iko huuhtanenJordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Today's the day! 055
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Rabbit rabbit rabbit! White rabbit for September is from 1915 030
Reposted by iko huuhtanenA Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 01/09/2026Twin Peaks: Lydecker Veterinary Clinic - ‘Aid to the beast incarnate’. 1324
Reposted by iko huuhtanenThe Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 27/08/2026IT'S NOT JUST A GAME ANYMORE. Poster for Clue (1985) #filmsky 49715
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 05/08/2026'If there is one thing J.J. Abrams and Bad Robot love more than the overuse of lens flare, it is hiding a film’s true identity in plain sight.' ... like End of Oak Street existing in the Cloverfield universe? getyourcomicon.co.uk/blog/2026/08...getyourcomicon.co.ukCould THE END OF OAK STREET Be a Secret Cloverfield Movie? - Get Your Comic OnCould WB and Bad Robot's upcoming The End of Oak Street be a secret Cloverfield movie in disguise? Matt investigates the evidence... 021
Reposted by iko huuhtanenMichael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Listen. I don't know if this is actually an ARG? But "Robert Downey Jr wore a suit covered in Latverian runes onstage at Comic Con, and fans cracked it thanks to a popup coffee event in London weeks prior" is a compelling enough statement that I'm interested in seeing what's next.argn.comPrelude to Doomsday: Are We Getting an Avengers ARG? | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming NetworkAvengers Doomsday used a Latverian coffee popup and Robert Downey Jr's SDCC suit to teach fans how to read Latverian runes. But is that for an Avengers ARG, or easter egg? 0102
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 01/08/2026This is a nice read! I believe the dream of TINAG is kept alive by newcomers who all, very understandably! are first simply mesmerised by the concept. If you stick around you'll see why it didn't quite work – and why it's not just a bad thing that we've moved on. 043
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Morsle. morsle.funmorsle.funMorsle - the daily Morse code challenge 000
Reposted by iko huuhtanenThe Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Coming to Kickstarter Murdoch Mysteries: The Board Game A hidden-movement game where players, playing as Murdoch Mysteries characters that each bring unique talents to the table, work together using clever inventions, deduction and strategy to outwit a playable villain. mailchi.mp/rosegauntlet...mailchi.mpMurdoch Mysteries The Board Game Prelaunch 1117
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I keep forgetting that The Blair Witch Project was a summer flick #OTD #filmsky www.history.com/this-day-in-...history.com"The Blair Witch Project" released in theaters | July 30, 1999 | HISTORYOn July 30, 1999, The Blair Witch Project, a low-budget, independent horror film that will become a massive cult hit,... 051
Reposted by iko huuhtanentarinoi 🔜 AdventureX @tarinoi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026We're building Tarinoi - an integrated narrative design and production toolkit for game studios of all sizes - intended for anybody making a game where the words matter. Take a look at tarinoi-works.com - if you're a studio or narrative designer interested in helping us develop it, drop us a line! 48618
Reposted by iko huuhtanenLaura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026I've also just confirmed that two huuuge boxes of old school ARG artifacts are making their way to me here in Portland - subscribe to the CFIA Patreon now to follow along and see what's inside! patreon.com/CenterForImm...patreon.comGet more from Center for Immersive Arts on PatreonGet more from Center for Immersive Arts on Patreon. Join for free or become a member for just $5/month. I'm preserving the history of immersive arts and… 0184
Reposted by iko huuhtanenB. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com · 24/07/2026Mediums who weren’t up to DIY-ing their cons could purchase ready-made ghosts, self-rapping tables, self-playing guitars, and other séance supplies from the secretly circulated catalogue “Gambols with the Ghosts,” issued by Ralph E. Sylvestre of Chicago. #PhantomsFriday 25018
Reposted by iko huuhtanenC.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Apichatpong Weerasethakul's SLEEPCINEMAHOTEL, a fusion of immersive video installation with a functioning overnight hotel, installed in Postillon Convention Centre in downtown Rotterdam in 2018. #WyrdWednesday 📸 by Duncan Caillard 1189
Reposted by iko huuhtanenThe Trinity Syndicate @syndicate.ar-cam.uk · 14/07/2026"A wire a hundred miles long is a thing we choose to build, and the distance to Mars is not." — S. Ferranti, private journal, 19.09.1891 041
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Codex Atlantica, a comic book alternate reality game by @magnerius.bsky.social Literary noir thriller following philologist Erica Nyström and a conspiracy stretching from the earliest civilizations to present day magnerius-comics.kit.com/codexatlanti... #arg #comics RESPONSUM SUB UNDIS DORMIT 150
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026'Armchair art historians, rejoice: there’s a free online daily game just for you. Called Anthropeum, the game involves guessing where and when various artifacts from New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art come from.' www.scientificamerican.com/article/word... #puzzlegames #historyscientificamerican.comWordle, but for art history—Anthropeum turns the Met Museum into an online gameAnthropeum is a daily game that uses the Met’s open-access data to showcase underrepresented art and artifacts 031
Reposted by iko huuhtanenZXVintage @zxvintage.bsky.social · 05/07/2026In-game screen: Black Dwarf's Lair/Newsoft Products (1982) DOWNLOADS: spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6011 121
Reposted by iko huuhtanenMichael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Stranger Things book might have a secret code, and I am easily influenced enough that I ordered it immediately. From Instagram: "keep your eyes peeled for a hidden code that’s cutting edge... find the catalog letters, add ".com" and explore declassified files." www.instagram.com/p/DaNdy3-EfI... 151
Reposted by iko huuhtanenLorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026NarraScope 2026 talks are online, free to view, in record time! Here's the playlist, starting with the second keynote speech from @sharangbiswas.bsky.social. The other keynote was given by @meredithgran.com. I'll add thoughts on my favorite talks after I get a chance to view the ones I missed.youtube.comNarraScope 2026 Keynote: Speculation by DesignYouTube video by Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation 158546
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 08/06/2026'This page is part article, part recovered artefact cabinet. Most of the original game has vanished into dead websites, broken Flash, missing MySpace uploads and ordinary internet decay — but enough fragments remain to follow the trail.' beautifulbooks.info/raw-shark-te... #ARGbeautifulbooks.infoThe Raw Shark Texts ARG: Alternate Reality Game | Beautiful BooksA field guide to the 2007 Raw Shark Texts ARG: LostEnvelope, Dr Randle's inkblot tests, MySpace accounts, and other hidden fragments. 020
Reposted by iko huuhtanenJordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026Submission form is now open for Game Poems Magazine Issue 2! Learn more and submit your game at www.gamepoems.com/submit Submission deadline is July 1, but early submissions are welcome. Thinking of submitting something, but haven't started yet? No worries, you've still got a whole month. :-) 29564
iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 30/05/2026'A 90s handheld' to promote the Japanese interactive mystery/horror game 'With the Everlasting Light' retrododo.com/the-playgate...retrododo.comThe PlayGate Handheld "Reappears" After 29 Years Of Being FictionalI like my handheld consoles so much so that I created RetroDodo from that passion, and I have now reviewed hundreds of them during my long-career as a content creator, so when I saw this device, I was... 010
Reposted by iko huuhtanenMichael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026This starts getting particularly interesting when entering the realm of ARGs / Unfiction, where it's significantly more likely that people are consuming oral histories or summaries of things that have happened, rather than the thing itself. Over 350K people watched a summary of the Dropout ARG.youtube.comSolving the Dropout ARG Hidden in Game ChangerYouTube video by David Marquette 163