Perplex City

Features of Perplex City included [blank_start]episodic[blank_end] content, [blank_start]web[blank_end] based, [blank_start]fiction[blank_end] disguised as [blank_start]fact[blank_end], [blank_start]distributed problem solving[blank_end] and [blank_start]game events[blank_end] occurring outside the [blank_start]web[blank_end].

Web - Based features of Perplex City included typing [blank_start]answers[blank_end] of card - puzzles into a [blank_start]website[blank_end] and character [blank_start]blogs[blank_end].

Distributed problem solving was aimed at finding the "[blank_start]treasure of Perplex City[blank_end]".

The treasure of Perplex City was the "[blank_start]Receda Cube[blank_end]" and the winner received £[blank_start]100,000[blank_end].

An example of a puzzle card answer is figuring out a character's phone number. The player types this number into the website. However, if they ring this number, the character [blank_start]answers[blank_end] it.

A character from the game was also [blank_start]interviewed[blank_end] on the radio.

Participants of the game worked together to write a [blank_start]book[blank_end] under the name of a [blank_start]fictional[blank_end] character. This is an example of [blank_start]real life[blank_end] activities being part of the game.

The puzzle cards also [blank_start]mapped[blank_end] the space of Perplex City.

Perplex city has it's own [blank_start]societal[blank_end] values - [blank_start]intelligence[blank_end].

A [blank_start]website[blank_end] was created for a fictional drug company. During a real-life event, the makers of the game wanted the name of a fictional drug [blank_start]printed[blank_end] on M&Ms. They had to [blank_start]explain[blank_end] to the M&M company that the drug company was [blank_start]fictional[blank_end].

Perplex City was comprised of [blank_start]13[blank_end] arcs that took place over [blank_start]2[blank_end] years. They were [blank_start]40,000[blank_end] words long and were typically [blank_start]character[blank_end] focused.