Attn Grassroots Puppetmasters & BTS helpers:

We need names... your names! A number of the grassroots PMs are not getting the proper attribution because of a lack of accurate info. Check out your information in the ARGdb, and if something is missing or incorrect, let us know on our contact form!

Attn ARG Community Web people:
The Games database will be made available, but we need to know a) what info you want and b) how you want it. Contact Brooke to share your thoughts before she decides for you.

Welcome to the Alternate Reality Game Database! We're very excited to go to open beta this week and bring this resource to the entire ARG community. Much work has been put into the architecture of the site as well as gathering information on the many many ARGs that have come and gone.

As I'm sure you have noticed, the process of gathering information is far from complete. You might even go so far as to say it has barely begun. There is just too much information and too many games out there for the small initial staff of ARGdb to tackle. As mentioned in the previous news post, there is a wiki set up for anyone to contribute to. We're also accepting game submissions and information updates through our site contact form for those who would rather not jump into the wiki. Puppet masters are particularly encouraged to submit your own games if they aren't found here! Just take a look at a completed game entry to see the scope of the information we're looking for.

For those who are interested, we're also looking for a few more people to help in the administration of the site. With all of the information there is to manage, the site administrators and moderators play a vital role in the verification and organization of all the information ARGdb will be cataloging. If you feel like you'd like to help with this endeavor then just head on over to the contact form and let us know!

A big thank you for checking out ARGdb, we hope that you'll pardon our mess as we straighten out a last few issues. Hopefully the information that we're providing will be found useful!

Over the past month, ARGdb has seen lots of improvements - most of it directly from your feedback. Thanks & keep it coming! The biggest improvement, however, has been to the admin interface. It's now easier than ever to add games to the database and edit the ones that already there. Just one problem...

We need more games!

As you've seen, the games that we have are ancient history and some of you weren't even active players back then. So, we need to fix that. There's 6 years of history - a huge task! But, if we each add just a couple pieces, it'll go amazingly fast.

We've set up a wiki to help distribute the work and started it off with a list of games provided by Catherwood. It's just the titles and, in a few cases, dates. There are detailed instructions over there to help guide you, but it's fairly easy stuff. Most of the information can be found in the archive section of unfiction or on the game guides, trails, and wikis. It just needs to be gathered. Best of all, everyone that helps will get a special something on their player page. You don't want to miss out on that, do you?

So, please, head over to ARGdb Wiki and add whatever you can.

Yes, believe it or not, something is finally happening with ARGdb.com! Not only that, but we think that it is a pretty exciting concept and something that will add to the growing ARG community. Quietly (and not so quietly), we've been billing it as the IMDB of ARGs. With all the new games, puppet masters, and players, it seemed like it was about time to keep all the info in one place... a place where YOU can contribute!

That's right, unlike the IMDB where viewers are only viewers (and wannabe critics), we know that the players are the stars of the games! So, when you tire of searching for info on your favorite puppet master, search your friends and see how they have rated the games they've played, share your memories of the games gone by and your hopes for the games yet to come, pass along random tidbits of information and get to know one another. Don't worry, you will have control over who can see your information, so if you only want friends to see your email address, they'll be the only ones to see it. This will not be a place to play ARGs (Unfiction can't be topped for that!) or a place to get the latest news (that's what ARGN is for!), it is merely a place to find out more about the games, the people that build them, and the player that make them what they are... with a few extras thrown in for good measure.

For more information, check out the FAQ page and if you have a question, feel free to ask! While things are crazy insane with school & work, development on the site is a bit slower than I'd hoped, but something is changed or added just about every day. So, keep an eye out on the place and if you happen to notice anything going spectacularly wrong, drop me a line so that I can add it to the ever growing todo list.

btw: I'm looking for someone with some decent php skills to help ensure that everything is up and running (and able to pass the Anthrax Security Test ;)) well before ARGfest. If that's you and you want to be a part of this (and why wouldn't you?), get in touch w/me and we'll come up with a plan.