What is the Black Helix? The Black Helix is not, regrettably, anything to do with those old pencil cases that looked like massive calculators, but rather, a mindbending game that switches between the virtual world and real life. Imagine if a pixel could punch you in the face. That.
So, this new Alternate Reality/Transmedia game is running through March 2011 and wants to take things a step further, presumably ending up with some Tron-style bloodsport which sucks you through the screen.
There’s already over a thousand players who are engaged in this interactive game, which include live events, phone calls, parcels in the post, real world tasks and a final role playing event. It sounds mental doesn’t it?
Unlike most ARGs players of Black Helix will become part of an as-yet unwritten story with the game itself responding to the players and the alias names with information, research and sub plots developing over the game, eventually all ending up in a unique book.
If this sounds like the kind of mental, brilliant, life-stealing fun for you, then you can join the game at any point over at theblackhelix.com. There’s videos, photos and clues that have been unearthed so far for your perusal.
Of course, there’s a social networking element to it as well over at facebook.com/theblackhelix and twitter twitter.com/blackhelix
The plot revolves around the kidnapping of the kidnapping of 27 year old PHD science student Jess. The latest story development is that on the 10th March, the character Zero Tolerance revealed himself, seeking support for a common cause to reveal the truth about Pharmucom and Jessica Harrington?s kidnapping with a video.
Players within the game rushed to join the cause at http://www.toleratenothing.org and help Zero Tolerance by uploading all their research to his site. 3 Days later, Zero Tolerance had infiltrated a secret drop at a Dock in Belfast, as a security camera engineer.
Seriously. Look
This Zero Tolerance was able to capture one man from the scene and keep him alive. If you want find out more about what was going on that night, he is being held at a secret location to be interrogated. To make sure that Zero Tolerance gets the right information he called out to the in game players for questions which would help uncover the mystery.
The LIVE interrogation is taking place on the 15th March at 9.30pm (GMT London) and the questions have been crowd sourced from the players in the game.
If you sign-up to this, you may as well quit your job now. This looks like a life-ruiner worse than Football Manager.
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joemomma says
I can see it now. In the end it will be a message to everyone “Remember to drink your Ovaltine”