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This site explains 4th Wall in detail. Every aspect of it’s play and design are discussed. If you are playing the game, looking at this site will ruin the game. In other words, this is a giant SPOILER ALERT.

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4th Wall is a project that seeks to explore the expanding boundaries of interactive narrative in the digital age. The current, pervasive nature of technology in peoples’ lives provides an opportunity to expand the way that they view narrative and how to interact with it. The project lives within the context of a game that plays out within an alternate reality that exists solely in virtual space.

Players interact with the world of the story through a variety of technologies including the web and email interactions with characters. This invites the players to become characters within the story in order to foster a higher level of engagement.

4th wall is an Alternate Reality Game (ARG) that presents the player with a mystery that they must solve.

The narrative of the game involves a missing reporter who has stumbled onto a story that links an apocalyptic cult and an unethical pharmaceutical company. The missing reporter works for an online news agency. Her editor is calling on their readers to become “Citizen Journalists” and help him find her.

The central game mechanic resides in the form of a damaged letter outlining the reporter’s story. The letter is missing six key words that were damaged in a fire. The player must follow clues given to them by the characters in the story in order to fill in the missing words and find the reporter. These clues will lead the players to explore the fictitious online elements of the game to discover the location of the reporter and plot that surrounds her disappearance .

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Simeon Poulin