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@ikowho.bsky.social
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Fiction set in reality, puzzling stories, unconventional media, and similar exciting things! They/them. Helsinki. #unfiction #ARG #immersive #interactivefiction #puzzlegames

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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rabbit rabbit rabbit! White rabbit for October is from nightmares
The White Rabbit from the 1931 film Alice in Wonderland
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The 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.'
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Devoureth All Mankynde
Drede Thou Not Derkness. Embrace Thou It. Werwulf is only in theaters December 25.
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Steve Senski's Watching @stevensenski.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It was 40 years ago today CBS unveiled Season 10 of DALLAS by revealing Season 9 had all been Pam's dream.
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
THE 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.]
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Immersive Rumours @immersiverumours.com · 24/09/2026
REVIEW: WhatsApp-based The Traitors: Anywhere will take over your life and have you questioning every friendship... www.immersiverumours.com/post/review-...
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Review: The Traitors Anywhere by CityDays - Immersive Rumours
With 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...
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Guy Forget @guyforget.bengreenfield.com · 23/09/2026
Once at a party I convinced someone that people called John Coltrane “Trane” because he loved trains so much. Happy 100th 🚂
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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.
Icon by Mark Dukes depicting Saint Coltrane with his fiery saxophone, holding a scroll with text 'GOD BREATHES THROUGH US SO COMPLETELY... SO GENTLY WE HARDLY FEEL IT... YET, IT IS OUR EVERYTHING. THANK YOU GOD.'
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nintendo 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
A black-and-white photograph of Nintendo headquarters and workshop, with a bicycle standing by the entrance.
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The Séance of Blake Manor - COMING TO CONSOLES🔮 @blakemanorgame.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We'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…
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The Best Detective Horror Video Games, Ranked By Gamers
The Best Detective Horror Video Games, Ranked By Gamers, as voted on by fans. Current Top 3: Alan Wake II, Observer: System Redux, Condemned: Criminal ...
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20/09/2026
blue plaque
jacob von hogflume
1864-1909
inventor of time travel
lived here in 2189
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Introducing 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 #castingcall
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1337 :: CASTING CALL — THE MENTOR
Charming Stranger is casting the MENTOR for 1337, a one-on-one interactive phone experience. Presented as part of Odyssey Works' New Frame program.
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Michael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Thanks as always to @puzzlesnacks.bsky.social, for one of my favorite puzzling hobbies. www.puzzles.wiki/wiki/Spaghet...
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Spaghetti (game) - Puzzle Wiki
Spaghetti is a game invented by Eric Berlin involving creating metapuzzles on the fly using a randomly selected set of "answers".
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Frans Mäyrä @fransmayra.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
It 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...
A pile of paperback and hardback copies of “Cultural Game Studies” book.Photo of the opened book, showing some black and white reproductions of games as art / art related to games.
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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
JCO ARG
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jwmuk ⚖️ GrogLaw 17 Oct @jwmuk.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Loved this game and it's partner game, Gumshoe... you may have come across this term 😜
Sleuth Publications Ltd, 1986, any number of players, and pretty much any age. Gumshoe was SPL's follow-up to their mostly successful "Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective" series of games (with the genre now being "Hardboiled 1930's San Francisco" instead of "Victorian London"). As in CD, the basics of a "case" are laid out in the clue book in narrative fashion. Then, it's up to the players to pluck the interesting details from said narrative. Once armed with a few avenues of inquiry, players then visit those people/places in order to find clues, evidence and further avenues of inquiry. As in the case set-up, clue points at a given location are laid out in narrative fashion. Once players feel that they have enough evidence to solve a given case, they then take a short test to see how they did.
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In 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_...
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ASMR: The History of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) | Ear-to-ear Whispering
YouTube video by SomeReadingsASMR
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inkle @inkle.co · 09/09/2026
New 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...
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
King 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
Olympic International class 5.5 metre sailing yacht N-27 Fram III of Norway, sailed by then Crown Prince Harald, competed on 21 Oct 1964 during the XVII Summer Olympic Games in Japan.
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Chloe Mashiter @chloemashiter.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'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...
A glitchy 90s style Teletext graphic with the title TRANSMISSION visible, and a popup reading "an online horror roleplay experience"
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Eric @yankeewhite.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New Control Resonant website found on posters around Portland, OR fbc.controlgame.com
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Citizen Safety Guide
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Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Today's the day!
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rabbit rabbit rabbit! White rabbit for September is from 1915
The White Rabbit from the 1915 film Alice in Wonderland
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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 01/09/2026
Twin Peaks: Lydecker Veterinary Clinic - ‘Aid to the beast incarnate’.
Lydecker Veterinary Clinic - ‘Aid to the beast incarnate’. Twin Peaks S01E05 - The One-Armed Man.
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The sh*t that goes down here while I sleep
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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
IT'S NOT JUST A GAME ANYMORE. Poster for Clue (1985) #filmsky
Poster for Paramount Pictures film Clue
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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...
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Could THE END OF OAK STREET Be a Secret Cloverfield Movie? - Get Your Comic On
Could WB and Bad Robot's upcoming The End of Oak Street be a secret Cloverfield movie in disguise? Matt investigates the evidence...
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Michael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Listen. 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.
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Prelude to Doomsday: Are We Getting an Avengers ARG? | ARGNet: Alternate Reality Gaming Network
Avengers 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?
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This 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.
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Morsle. morsle.fun
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Morsle - the daily Morse code challenge
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The Great Detective @greatdetective.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Coming 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...
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Murdoch Mysteries The Board Game Prelaunch
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I keep forgetting that The Blair Witch Project was a summer flick #OTD #filmsky www.history.com/this-day-in-...
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"The Blair Witch Project" released in theaters | July 30, 1999 | HISTORY
On July 30, 1999, The Blair Witch Project, a low-budget, independent horror film that will become a massive cult hit,...
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tarinoi 🔜 AdventureX @tarinoi.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
We'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!
Screenshot from the Tarinoi website, showcasing a screenshot of the graph and header categories such as blog, features and contact sections. Reads "The Narrative Design platform built for the full game lifecycle."
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Laura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'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...
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Get more from Center for Immersive Arts on Patreon
Get 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…
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B. Rae “Rusty” Grosz @braegrosz.com · 24/07/2026
Mediums 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
Somewhat aged and torn cover of the catalogue “Gambols with the Ghosts,” featuring illustration in shades of purple depicting a scene of ghosts flying over a landscape of moonrise over water, an owl perched on a bare tree, a satyr playing a pipe, the skull of a horned animal, a large sphinx, and small pyramids
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C.W. Reeve @cwreeve.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Apichatpong 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
A communal sleeping space accompanied by a single-channel video projection and a curated soundscape of running water and rustling leaves. The beds are utilitarian and sparse, the space is full of neutral colours.
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The 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
A visiting engineer today mentioned, in passing, and I think without grasping the weight of it, that a signal sent to the furthest limits of the solar system by any wave-borne means would take not seconds but hours to arrive; and hours again for any answer. I laughed along with the company. Privately, I went home and did the arithmetic myself. He was right. He had understated it, if anything, for the nearer planets. I do not know why this should unsettle me more than the notion of a wire a hundred miles long, except that a wire a hundred miles long is a thing we choose to build, and the distance to Mars is not.
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Codex 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
PATRIK MAGNERIUS
CODEX ATLANTICA
Some knowledge should never be found....
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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 #history
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Wordle, but for art history—Anthropeum turns the Met Museum into an online game
Anthropeum is a daily game that uses the Met’s open-access data to showcase underrepresented art and artifacts
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ZXVintage @zxvintage.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
In-game screen: Black Dwarf's Lair/Newsoft Products (1982) DOWNLOADS: spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/6011
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Michael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stranger 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...
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Rekindling these bonfires for #WyrdWednesday
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Lorri Hopping ✍🏼 📚🕹️ 🎲 🔜 NYC @hoppingfun.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
NarraScope 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.
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NarraScope 2026 Keynote: Speculation by Design
YouTube video by Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Nothing creepy about Finnish Midsummer #juhannus
Photo from Finnish Heritage Agency
1932Photo by Ville Tuhkanen
Juuka, Finland 1909
Finnish Heritage Agency
Photo by Teuvo Kanerva
Tampere, Finland 1965
Finnish Heritage AgencyPhoto by Teuvo Kanerva
Helsinki, Finland 1970s
Finnish Heritage Agency
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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... #ARG
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The Raw Shark Texts ARG: Alternate Reality Game | Beautiful Books
A field guide to the 2007 Raw Shark Texts ARG: LostEnvelope, Dr Randle's inkblot tests, MySpace accounts, and other hidden fragments.
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Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Submission 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. :-)
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iko huuhtanen @ikowho.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
I'm so happy for Nicolas Cage. #SpiderNoir
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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...
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The PlayGate Handheld "Reappears" After 29 Years Of Being Fictional
I 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...
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Michael Andersen @mjandersen.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
This 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.
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Solving the Dropout ARG Hidden in Game Changer
YouTube video by David Marquette
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Ghostcards @ghostcards.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
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