Mystery Projects
heavy focus on a mystery, finding clues, and gaining answers for characters and audience
Digital Penthouse
1/14/25, 3:46 PM
Inside of Melissa Roland's school-bag is a collection of unconventional stageplays she did not write, and she has no idea how they got there. Digital Penthouse is a website imitating an old, abandoned Wiki, hosting a mystery uncovered only by inputting the full URLs for Chapters, Characters, and Locations. It's a tale told in fragments – broken, shattered fragments – and you must piece together what you can in order to understand the truth.
mystery-puzzle-horror, immersive narrative, website, neocities, text, wiki, nested stories
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Fall of Reign Tarot
1/9/25, 12:33 AM
Christian Bond is a Tarot reader with a dark past that is slowly revealed by strange technological malfunctions that take place during his readings; malfunctions that he seems entirely unaware of initially. These glitches incorporate deleted audio files, images, or footage from his phone, computer, and home security camera into his Tarot videos without warning. As the story unfolds, the cause of these disruptions becomes evident - A gift from a man that he met by chance in a McDonald's... A man who would become his mentor.
mystery-horror, immersive narrative, YT, spiritualism, channel hijacking
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Corestone Alternative Energy Solutions
1/9/25, 12:26 AM
At first, Corestone Alternate Energy Solutions may seem like any other business in the electric power industry, but there's more going on than meets the eye. And it's not just the arcane pseudoscience they use to generate clean energy. Someone at this company is trying to keep a secret—a big one. But the website was recently hacked, and by the looks of it, someone else is trying to expose Corestone's secret. If they're going to succeed, they're going to need help. The clues are there, but someone's got to start putting them together!
mystery-puzzle, arg, website, science fiction, murder mystery
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Haus of Delirium
1/8/25, 10:33 PM
"Haus of Delirium" is an intricate and immersive alternate reality game (ARG) that combines historical conspiracies, psychological puzzles, and a richly woven narrative to create a compelling player experience. Set within a mysterious organization that operates outside the conventional bounds of time and space, the game involves players in uncovering secrets, solving puzzles, and navigating ethical dilemmas.
mystery, ARG, website, historical, science fiction, in-depth
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Vox Chronos
9/24/24, 2:29 PM
The Vox Chronos project is an Alternate Reality Game with less emphasis on puzzles and ciphers and more on stenography and hiding clues to the story and information on what's happening in the details. It is designed with theorizing and player interaction with the characters in mind.
mystery-puzzle, ARG, multiplat, sci-fi, writing
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INTERLOPER: Half-Life 2's Greatest Unsolved Mystery
9/24/24, 12:32 PM
Anomi discovers an ongoing mystery that has never been solved. In the video game Half-Life 2. he finds a graffiti of a man holding an umbrella that shows up once every year. He goes into the game files to see the graffiti in full only to discover a secret that maaaybe shouldn't have been revealed.
mystery-horror-drama, interactive project, YT, valvepunk not steampunk
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F4CE Codex
5/31/24, 8:10 AM
F4CE is a hacker who delivers pizza for an offbeat pizza place with eccentric owners called The Pandora Twins. Things in his life start to intensify when he manages to steal some encrypted data from some government men during a delivery. At first he thinks he’ll just be exposing truths the government never wanted revealed and recruit other “online” people (4gents of kh40s) to help him. When he follows the data to a meeting site, he discovers the government has been hiding a whole ‘nother dimension. A mysterious pop-up ad that changes and can’t be removed reveals existential threats may be around every corner.
mystery-puzzle-drama, ARG, mutliplat, blog, men in black, pizza time
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Field Studies Institute
5/31/24, 8:04 AM
The Field Studies Institute collects and studies objects from another reality; what they call a Spacetime Deviation. Two members of the Archives Division work to digitize the collection of transient objects, which collectively tell the story of this other reality, and the characters who seemingly don't belong there.