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The WWO Video Trailer!

December 19, 2007 in video | Tags: , , | | No comments

One minute thirty-one seconds of WWO goodness by WWO videographer Kiyash Monsef. Jane McGonigal and I have been showing this teaser trailer at conferences and it always gets an ovation. To see the whole video, try the (new!) WWO home page.

It was the world's first serious alternate reality game, a cooperative pre-imagining of a global oil crisis. Over 1900 players collaborated in May 2007 to chronicle the oil crisis with their own personal blog posts, videos, images and voicemails. The game ended after simulating the first 32 weeks of the oil shock, but its effects continue, as game designers analyze its unique gameplay and we all watch the continuing drama with global oil prices and supply.