Alternate Reality Game • Campus-wide Production
Augmented Reality Game (ARG)
The Guardians of UCSC is an ARG (Alternate Reality Game) that took place over Winter Quarter 2018 throughout the UC Santa Cruz campus. Players were taken on a journey leading them to physical locations and online spaces to solve riddles and work together to uncover the dark history of UC Santa Cruz.
Over a 10-week period I helped lead a team to produce this ARG — using a Gantt chart to track progress and regularly coordinating all departments. During the live game we scheduled performances, demonstrations, held cryptic online Reddit conversations to advance the plot, and invited the school to a vigil to mark the end. There are still artifacts at the school to this day.
What We Built
- Physical & digital integration — in-person campus experiences and online puzzles
- Narrative-driven mystery ARG across the entire UCSC campus
- Live performances, demonstrations, and a closing vigil
- Cryptic riddles across multiple mediums and platforms
- Production managed with Gantt chart planning across departments
