Troy

An interactive fiction by Adam Smith (2007) - the Inform 7 source text

Chapter 0 - Preface

[This work is intended to be a highly realistic adaptation of the ARG (alternative realtity game) called "Troy" designed by TJ Jackson as part of the Experimental Gameplay Project at Cargegie Mellon University. Much of the text in this work is taken directly from the pages and games found on the web as part of the author's experience playing through the real game. In fact, the reader may examine any anchor in the game to find the URL of the real pages involved in the game.]

[One quirk of this adaptation is that it represents the state of the ARG as one might play it as of 2007, after the domain name involved in a critical part of the story was left to expire and has since been grabbed by domain squatters. Because it is only at the final stage of the ARG that TINAG (this is not a game) is finally abandoned, and this is precicsely one of the missing pieces in the adaptation, the story of this work has a distinctly different feeling at the end (despite being purely non-fictional!).]

[The original game can be played here: http://www.etc.cmu.edu/projects/experimentalgameplay/Prototypes/newstuff/download.php?Troy.exe]