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JEEP BARNETT ADAM FOSTER KYLE DAVIS VALVE PORTAL 2 AND TF2 ALTERNATE REALITY GAMES Q&A Why ARG? • Fictional Grounding • Retrospect • Historical Research • New Content • Call to Action • Rewards Some ARGs • ApertureScience.com • Portal 2 ARG • Potato Sack • Pyromania ARG • Mann vs Machine ARG ApertureScience.com •Flash Website •Hacking Terminal •Questionnaire •“The Cake is a Lie” •Rattman Password •Companion Cube’s Holiday Vault •Cave Johnson Portal 2 ARG •Radio Signal Minigame •SSTV Images •Hashed BBS Number •ASCII Screenshots •Modified Ending Potato Sack •Potato Fools’ Day •Glyphs •Aperture Logins •Concept Art •Seattle Map Locations •New Content for 13 Games •“Nelipot” & Dinosaur •GLaDOS@Home Pyromania ARG •Mystery Items •Goldfish •Banana Peel •Damaged Capacitor •Etc. •Eliminating the Impossible •Banana Crafting •Poopy Joe •Ash Piles Mann vs Machine ARG •Carrier Tanks •Gray Mann in Will •Melted Capacitor Equipping •High Fives •“Walked into a bar,” Joke •PGP Wordlist •Final Recipe •Blood Brothers Alert Some Takeaways • Different Scopes • Callbacks • Verifiable Redundancy • Levels of Participation JEEP & ADAMF & KYLED @valvesoftware.com ASCII CAKE ApertureScience.com RATTMAN PASSWORD ApertureScience.com HOLIDAY VAULT ApertureScience.com ADAM’S BBS Portal 2 ARG SSTV IMAGES Portal 2 ARG GLYPHS Potato Sack RUSH Potato Sack CORE Potato Sack SEATTLE MAP Potato Sack POTATO SACK BUNDLE Potato Sack BOX CONCEPT Potato Sack GAMASUTRA.COM/VIEW/FEATURE/6371/ THE_PORTAL_TWO_ARG_THE_WHOLE_STORY.PHP Potato Sack COURT LEDGER Pyromania ARG HOOPY Hoopy ARG POOPY JOE Pyromania ARG PYROLAND Pyromania ARG MACHINE PHOTOS Mann vs Machine ARG ROBOT HEADS Mann vs Machine ARG MANN WILL Mann vs Machine ARG .

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