No Pistolsniffer game would be complete without the comic relief duo of Randy and Earl, and in the current game, the pair admit “we’ve bin LARP’n”.  Unfortunately, at their last LARPing event Sophia (one of the founders of the group LARP HARD) was killed in a tragic “accident” involving the mechanical dragon that Randy built.  Now, Randy is on probation and faces expulsion from the group unless he can prove that he isn’t responsible for Sophia’s death.  Randy’s theory is that the dragon was sabotaged by one of the other founders and that he is being framed.

The goal of the game is to gain the trust of Dylan, the leader of LARP HARD, by joining the LARP HARD recruitment drive then discover the truth behind Sophia’s death and clear Randy’s good name.  In order to accomplish this task you’ll need to prove your ability to “larp hard” though weekly challenges and figure out what actually happened on the day of the “accident” by befriending the founders and getting them to tell you about that fateful day.

This game is scheduled to last for about eight weeks and has just gotten started.  You’ll be able to catch up on the story by just watching a few videos and poking around on the LARP HARD recruitment website.  Again, this team of indie game producers has a fantastic track record of creating funny, engaging, and very creative games.  Join in now and you won’t be disappointed!

(FYI: If you look close enough you might even see our Creative Director playing this game…)

Remix Fiction Television Episode #730.3 (Scott Walker) from Martin Aggett on Vimeo.

The film will document the next year of transmedia storytelling and will include a behind the scenes look at Remix Fiction’s flagship property.  It will also contain several other story threads that follow other projects, companies, organizations, alternate reality games, or transmedia campaigns.  The Remix Fiction story will be the anchor, but what else is included in the final cut will be left mostly up to the community.

The most common question I’ve gotten about the Wreck-a-Movie production so far is “what am I supposed to do?”.  We fully acknowledge that this film will succeed or fail based on whether or not we can build a community of people to help make this vision a reality.  So, we’re going to take on a large share of the workload and will try to make it as easy as possible for you to contribute.  Here are a few things you can do to help…

Join the production team:

The easiest thing you can do to support this project is become a member of the production team.  To do this all you have to do is hit the “Join Now” button and create a free Wreck-a-Movie account.  Even if you just complete this one task and contribute nothing else it demonstrates your support for the project and will enable us to send you an occasional email to let you know how things are going.

Ask questions:

Another simple way to contribute is to help us out with the Frequently Asked Questions.  To add a question to our FAQ all you need to do is click the FAQ tab on our production page and use the “Give it a Shot” button.  “Shots” are how members on Wreck-a-Movie contribute to productions.  In the case of the FAQ, shots are used to ask a question and a comment holds the answer to that question.

Take a shot at completing a bigger task:

The entire production is organized into more manageable chunks using “Tasks” that are created by the production leader.  These challenges could be things like; soliciting ideas for the film’s structure, creating DVD cover art, contributing video content, editing the film in Final Cut Pro, remixing raw footage into a trailer, and any number of other creative or administrative tasks.  Again, you can “take a shot” at accomplishing each task or just vote on which shot you like best.  Members who contribute the most shots that are incorporated into the final product will be recognized in the film credits.

I hope that answers some of your initial questions about the project.  If you have any questions please ask them below in the comments for this post or add them to the production FAQ page.

In addition to being able to keep up-to-date with everything happening at Remix Fiction and the ARG community, you’ll be able to use the app to keep tabs on Martin Aggett.  Not only is Martin the Creative Director at Remix Fiction, he is also the lead fictional character in our own Alternate Reality Game that launches in 2011.

That’s right – our lead character has broken free of the traditional fictional boundaries and lives online and in the “real world”.  He shares his thoughts on the challenges of being fictional on his blog.  He hosts our video podcast and interviews leaders in the transmedia industry.  He travels the world on freelance photography assignments, and if you’re lucky, you can meet him for lunch when he visits a city near you.

This App will give you insight into his life, travels, and personality and will lead right up to the launch of his story.

To download and install our new app just click here.

This year’s event is probably the most ambitious in recent history.  The schedule is packed with former Remix Fiction Television guests and leaders in the industry.  We are going to send our own Creative Director, Martin Aggett, to report on the event live and record interviews for Remix Fiction Television (sorry no live streaming this year).

We’ve got lots of exciting things to announce at ARGfest this year!  Make sure you watch for our advertisement in the ARGfest program and follow Martin for all the up-to-minute updates, and make sure you find us and say “Hi” – we’d love to meet you!

All that changes today.  Today, we declare July 4th 2011 as our Cinderella moment.  This is an (admittedly self imposed) ultimatum that establishes a deadline for the launch of our alternate reality game.  If we don’t launch our game by midnight on the 4th of July next year we will shut all the websites down and call it quits.  That’s right, everything will just vanish from the internet and you’ll never hear from us again.

We hope that you’ll follow our progress over the next year and help us develop and refine our game.  We’re excited to renew our commitment to completing this project and will pursue it with a refreshed sense of urgency.

After several months and more than 70 people voting for their favorite logo we now have a clear winner.  The red remix with the hanging f i c t i o n logo will represent the Remix Fiction brand here on the website, on the television series, and all future outlets.

The close runner up logo will be featured as a secondary option when we need something that fits a more flatter/horizontal space.

Patrick will be joining us for a live interview tomorrow at 9pm Berlin time (Sunday 12pm Seattle time) to discuss the challenges of building a multi-country, multi-language, community around an alternate reality project.