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No two ARGs are the same, but ARGs based around movies, TV shows and games have common traits.

Which of your crew is into alternate reality games (ARGs)?

Each of the largest ARGs had over 10,000 subscribers on YouTube.

A couple ARGs are still running, albeit with far fewer releases.

I'm not an expert on puzzle hunts, ARGs, or escape rooms.

The Mateo incident highlighted the ways that ARGs can become too immersive.

And this line had noticeably higher levels of ARGs than the rest.

The Navy used to be able to deploy up to five ARGs at one time, however the fleet is no longer the size it used to be in the 2000s and the service is working on a strategy to get by with fewer ARGs and as fewer amphibs overall.

That these rich experiences are usually part of an ad campaign is, for the moment, central to ARGs.

But you don't want to plan ARGs completely because so often, the best ideas come from the community.

To do so, the Navy has been exploring pivoting amphibious readiness groups (ARGs) into "mini" carrier strike groups (CSGs).

"That all started as 'Let's make these two separate ARGs and have them come together at the end,'" he said.

That's the thing about ARGs: they're meant from the outset to bring groups of people together around a collaborative puzzle.

That's a hefty number for ARGs: Only about 100 people began playing The Beast within the first few weeks it ran.

In the morning, the team found, only some lines contained these antibiotic resistance genes, or ARGs, but by nighttime, they all did.

Most importantly, ARGs have scavenger hunts that get fans out in the real world, looking for clues that were planted in public spaces.

We've talked very directly with our community or we've done—I mean, sometimes not directly, where we run ARGs and things like that.

Modern near peer adversaries increasingly possess long range sensors and precision-guided munitions, a phenomenon which will require much more operational diversity from ARGs.

The nature of ARGs is to be infectious and immersive, assimilating people, places, and events into their narratives like a sort of playful Borg.

He's also one of the cofounders of Game Changer Chicago, a lab that designs digital games, board games, and ARGs for Chicago high school students.

But the design of ARGs generally starts slow like this, making the barrier to entry very low so as many people as possible get involved initially.

More web series and alternate reality games (or ARGs) followed, from TribeTwelve and EverymanHYBRID to DarkHarvest00, and each added another layer to the Slender Man mythos.

A third "Conspiracies" group was devoted to piecing together the "reality" of the project, collecting articles on Jagoda and Coleman's work as well as ARGs in general.

The results showed that samples taken from the Chinese capital Beijing - known for its extremely bad pollution - turned up a high level of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs).

ARGs have often been used to promote more traditional media: The Beast for the movie AI, I Love Bees for Halo 2 — once again, leveraging an existing franchise.

On the surface, it was not dissimilar to the puzzles and fractured narratives found in classic ARGs like I Love Bees or ARG / immersive hybrids like The Tension Experience.

But what really gives ARGs their reality-warping magic is the lack of any stated rules, or terms of engagement, other than players should never admit they're playing a game.

Some of the most famous ARGs, like Halo 2's "I Love Bees," had participants standing at pay phones waiting for secret messages to push them one step closer to answers.

While they largely remained a niche phenomenon, ARGs emphasized how eager fans could be to engage with their favorite properties in an actual physical way, rather than just through traditional advertising.

He toyed with the idea of pitching an Ong's Hat movie, he made other ARGs, and he became embroiled in other controversial internet hoaxes, like the John Titor time travel saga.

Add the confusing haze of orientation—an already fraught, unstable moment—to the muddled nature of ARGs, and the connections between the players and designers could easily have become manipulative and cruel.

The Kickstarter project was Frog Fractions 20153, the elaborate ARGs playing out the past few years have been Frog Fractions 2, and the game now on Steam for $20 is Frog Fractions 2.

The earliest ARGs took place almost entirely online—the form dates back only to the turn of the century—when encountering shady, mysterious characters on the internet still felt like a raw, Matrix-like possibility.

We've run these two ARGs, one in the lead up to Atlas Rising and now this one, which have been really popular—like 300,000 people playing the first one, 400,1003 people playing the last one.

They sponsor lavish tournaments, and aggressively market not just their launches but also expansions and DLC; each new character in Overwatch comes only at the tail end of weeks of speculation, hype, marketing pushes, and ill-fated ARGs.

There's no hard evidence to suggest this clown fad is actually part of an official or organized alternate reality game, but given the way it's spread and documented online, it's not hard to imagine the spirit of ARGs has infused some of the storytelling.

Hopefully you're better at this than either Steve or Dustin For the uninitiated, augmented reality games (ARGs) bring fictional narratives and puzzle-solving into the real world by hiding IRL secret codes that you crack to uncover real phone numbers, hidden websites, and sometimes even physical locations that progress the game.

The so-called "Twitterverse experiment" is where the roleplay community REALLY flourished, due in large part to the developers staging elaborate ARGs with in-game and physical payoffs (to this day, I keep a dogtag of my character's in-game faction stowed, talismanic, in my car's glovebox—my reward for "winning" one of the roleplay contests).

Java programs start executing at the main method of a class, which has one of the following method headings: public static void main(String[] args) public static void main(String... args) public static void main(String args[]) Command-line arguments are passed in `args`. As in C and C++, the name "`main()`" is special. Java's main methods do not return a value directly, but one can be passed by using the `System.exit()` method.

Metacortechs was followed by an ever-increasing number of grassroots ARGs. In the wake of these successful, low-budget independent ARGs, an active "grassroots" development community began to evolve within the genre. While the quality of the grassroots games varies wildly, amateur storytellers, web designers, and puzzle creators continue to provide independently developed ARGs for the active player community.

Metacortechs was followed by an ever-increasing number of grassroots ARGs. In the wake of these successful, low-budget independent ARGs, an active "grassroots" development community began to evolve within the genre. While the quality of the grassroots games continues to vary wildly, amateur storytellers, web designers, and puzzle creators continue to provide independently developed ARGs for the active player community.

Since Tcl 8.5, a function can be applied to arguments with the `apply` command apply func ?arg1 arg2 ...? where the function is a two element list {args body} or a three element list {args body namespace}.

Overall, academics have been intrigued by ARGs' potential for effective organizing. Across the board, a diverse range of organizations, such as businesses, nonprofits, government agencies, and schools "can learn from the best practices and lessons of ARGs to similarly take advantage of new media and collective problem–solving". As such, implementation of ARGs in these different settings involves finding best practices for honing the collaborative, transmedia elements of ARGs for these respective institutions. Much of this scholarly interest stems from the evolving media ecology with the rise of new media.

In D, the function prototype of the main function looks like one of the following: void main(); void main(string[] args); int main(); int main(string[] args); Command-line arguments are passed in `args`, similar to how it is done in C# or Java. For versions of `main()` returning an integer, similar to both C and C++, it is passed back to the environment as the exit status of the process.

In sustaining cooperative online communities, ARGs build on "an alignment of interest, where problems are presented in a fashion that assists game designers in their goal while intriguing and aiding players in their goals". This returns to ARGs' framework of transmedia storytelling, which necessitates that ARG designers relinquish a significant degree of their power to the ARG's audience, problematizing traditional views of authorship. The majority of the scholastic review on ARGs analyzes their pedagogical advantages. Notably, in the classroom, ARGs can be effective tools for providing exigence on given topics and yield a collaborative and experiential learning environment.

In JavaScript, function objects have an `apply` method, the first argument is the value of the `this` keyword inside the function; the second is the list of arguments: func.apply(null, args); ES6 adds the spread operator `func(...args)` which may be used instead of `apply`.

People participate to experience, prepare for or shape an alternative life or future. The games thus have the potential to attract casual or non-players, because 'what if' is a game anyone can play. Serious ARGs may, therefore, be sponsored by organizations with activist or educational goals; World Without Oil was a joint project of the Public Broadcasting Service's Independent Lens and its Electric Shadows Web-original programming. Their serious subject matter may lead Serious ARGs to diverge from mainstream ARGs in design.

OpenStandardOutput()` and `System.Console.OpenStandardError()` respectively. // C# example public static int Main(string[] args) { try { string s = System.Console.In.ReadLine(); double number = double.

In 2003 he co-founded 42 Entertainment, a design company in the field of alternate reality games (ARGs). 42 has created multiple ARGs, including, I Love Bees to promote the Xbox game Halo 2, and Year Zero, to promote the Nine Inch Nails album Year Zero. He later he co-founded (with Dawne Weisman) EDOC Laundry, a company designed to produce ARGs using clothes as the primary platform. Consumers deciphered codes hidden within garments and entered the results into the game's main website to reveal pieces of a distributed story.

Here is a simple leJOS program: import lejos.nxt.Motor; import lejos.nxt.Button; public class Example { public static void main(String[] args) { Motor.A.forward(); Button.

Hello world in Noop import noop.Application; import noop.Console; class HelloWorld(Console console) implements Application { Int main(List args) { String s = "Hello World!"; console.

When executing a program written in C#, the CLR searches for a static method marked with the `.entrypoint` IL directive, which takes either no arguments, or a single argument of type `string[]`, and has a return type of `void` or `int`, and executes it. static void Main(); static void Main(string[] args); static int Main(); static int Main(string[] args); Command-line arguments are passed in `args`, similar to how it is done in Java. For versions of `Main()` returning an integer, similar to both C and C++, it is passed back to the environment as the exit status of the process.

Every Cool program must define a class Main which must have a no-args main method in which execution flow begins. Namespaces are not supported.

Arrays; import java.util.List; import lombok.SneakyThrows; public class PrettyPrintExample { //SneakyThrows annotation will internally declare all checked exceptions. @SneakyThrows public static void main(String[] args) { List cars= Arrays.

Count); foreach (KeyValuePair kvp in _typesDictionary) { Console.WriteLine(kvp.Key); } Console.WriteLine(); } } public Fruit() { // required so the sample compiles } } class Program { static void Main(string[] args) { Fruit.GetFruitByTypeName("Banana"); Fruit.

ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; public class Injector { public static void main(String[] args) { // -- Assembling objects -- // BeanFactory beanfactory = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Beans.xml"); Client client = (Client) beanfactory.getBean("client"); // -- Using objects -- // System.out.println(client.

The site combined copious amounts of Monty Python-esque writing (by Michael Bywater) with ARG-type interactivity. The marketing for the 1999 movie The Blair Witch Project resembled ARGs in many ways (and some of its makers went on to create the 2005 Audi promotional ARG The Art of the Heist), expanding the world of the movie online, adding backstory, and treating the fiction as reality through real-world media such as fliers and a fake documentary on the Sci-Fi Channel. However, perhaps in part due to the subject material and the absence of overt metacommunications that this was fiction, it also resembles an internet hoax or attempts to create an urban legend. Pervasive play games like the Go Game and the Nokia Game also incorporated many elements similar to ARGs (although they tended to lack the narrative element central to ARGs) and prefigured the public play components of large-scale corporate ARGs like I Love Bees, The Art of the Heist and Last Call Poker.

Because of their similarities, video games and ARGs continued to be associated through many projects, In 2009, Funcom, a game development studio from Oslo, Norway, hid a gate on its corporate website, which led to an ARG which would be part of the pre-launch campaign for The Secret World, a game released in 2013. The gate was discovered only in 2013, therefore requiring the puppetmaster to adapt the scenario to its actual setting. Funcom has done a total of 16 ARGs that tie in with The Secret World, with the first one starting in May 2007. The ARGs focussed on several different storylines, such as: The Expedition of Roald Amundsen, The Sanctuary of Secrets and the Secret War.

This is especially common when the subroutine takes only one argument or for handling the `$self` argument in object-oriented modules. my $x = shift; Subroutines may assign `@_` to a hash to simulate named arguments; this is recommended in Perl Best Practices for subroutines that are likely to ever have more than three parameters. Damian Conway, Perl Best Practices , p.182 sub function1 { my %args = @_; print "'x' argument was '$args{x}' "; } function1( x => 23 ); Subroutines may return values.

There is a portability issue with generating a trailing comma with empty args for variadic macros in C99. Some compilers (e.g., Visual Studio) will silently eliminate the trailing comma. Other compilers (e.g.

There are also massively multiplayer collectible card games: Alteil, Astral Masters and Astral Tournament. Other MMOCCGs might exist (Neopets has some CCG elements) but are not as well known. Alternate reality games (ARGs) can be massively multiplayer, allowing thousands of players worldwide to co-operate in puzzle trails and mystery solving. ARGs take place in a unique mixture of online and real-world play that usually does not involve a persistent world, and are not necessarily multiplayer, making them different from MMOGs.

A Java program may contain multiple classes that have `main` methods, which means that the VM needs to be explicitly told which class to launch from. The main method must accept an array of ' objects. By convention, it is referenced as `'args` although any other legal identifier name can be used. Since Java 5, the main method can also use variable arguments, in the form of `public static void main(String... args)`, allowing the main method to be invoked with an arbitrary number of `String` arguments.

In Java, the standard streams are referred to by (for stdin), (for stdout), and (for stderr). public static void main(String args[]) { try { BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)) String s = br.readLine(); double number = Double.

Java's library contains a class that is a specialization of . Following is an example program in Java language, using that class. import java.util.Stack; class StackDemo { public static void main(String[]args) { Stack stack = new Stack(); stack.

2006 produced fewer large-scale corporate ARGs than past years, but the ARG form continued to spread and be adapted for promotional uses, as an increasing number of TV shows and movies extended their universes onto the internet through such means as character blogs and ARG-like puzzle trails, and as an increasing number of independent and grassroots games launched, with varying levels of success. One of the more popular indie ARGs to launch in the fall of 2006 was Jan Libby's dark yet whimsical "Sammeeeees". "MeiGest", produced by Hazel Grian and Jon Williams, garnered a great deal of community attention and affection with a light, humorous storyline and numerous references to past ARGs. lonelygirl15, a popular series of videos on YouTube, relinquished an unprecedented amount of control to its audience by recognizing a fan-created game as the "official" ARG.

Susan Bonds is the president and CEO of 42 Entertainment, a Pasadena-based company that specializes in the creation and production of alternate reality games (ARGs)—participatory and massively immersive experiences that are typically tied to a commercial entertainment property. While at 42 Entertainment she has produced such notable ARGs as ilovebees (for Microsoft's launch of Halo 2), Dead Man's Tale (for Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest), Year Zero (for Nine Inch Nails), Why So Serious? (for Warner Bros.' The Dark Knight), and Flynn Lives (for Disney's Tron: Legacy).

ARGs generally use multimedia, such as telephones, email, and mail but rely on the Internet as the central binding medium. ARGs are growing in popularity, with new games appearing regularly and an increasing amount of experimentation with new models and sub- genres. They tend to be free to play, with costs absorbed either through supporting products (e.g. collectible puzzle cards fund Perplex City) or through promotional relationships with existing products (for example, I Love Bees was a promotion for Halo 2, and the Lost Experience and Find 815 promoted the television show Lost).

In a 2007 article, columnist Chris Dahlen (of Pitchfork Media) voiced a much- discussed ARG concept: if ARGs can spark players to solve very hard fictional problems, could the games be used to solve real-world problems? Dahlen was writing about World Without Oil, the first ARG centered on a serious near- future scenario: a global oil shortage. Another ARG, Tomorrow Calling, appears to be a testbed for a future project focused on environmental themes and activism. Serious ARGs introduce plausibility as a narrative feature to pull players into the game.

The effect of this alternate declaration is semantically identical (to the `args` parameter which is still an array of `String` objects), but it allows an alternative syntax for creating and passing the array. The Java launcher launches Java by loading a given class (specified on the command line or as an attribute in a JAR) and starting its `public static void main(String[])` method. Stand-alone programs must declare this method explicitly. The `String[] args` parameter is an array of objects containing any arguments passed to the class.

A standard on how to interact with Java compilers programmatically was specified in JSR 199. import java.util.Scanner; class secondmax { public static void main (String args[]) { int n,temp,fmax=0,smax=0; Scanner sc=new Scanner(System.in); System.out.

The Truth About Marika narrative spanned across different channels aiming to provide an immersive experience into the story universe. It included: A TV drama, the Conspirare website, an SVT dedicated webpage, a debate television program, ARGs activities and Entropia Universe.

The following example is loosely based on a standard AMI style used in the .NET Framework. Given a method `Accomplish`, one adds two new methods `BeginAccomplish` and `EndAccomplish`: class Example { Result Accomplish(args …) IAsyncResult BeginAccomplish(args …) Result EndAccomplish(IAsyncResult a) … } Upon calling `BeginAccomplish`, the client immediately receives an object of type `AsyncResult` (which implements the `IAsyncResult` interface), so it can continue the calling thread with unrelated work. In the simplest case, eventually there is no more such work, and the client calls `EndAccomplish` (passing the previously received object), which blocks until the method has completed and the result is available.

Due to factors like the curtain, attempts to begin games with "stealth launches" to fulfill the TINAG aesthetic, and the restrictive non-disclosure agreements governing how much information may be revealed by the puppetmasters of promotional games, the design process for many ARGs is often shrouded in secrecy, making it difficult to discern the extent to which they have been influenced by other works. In addition, the cross-media nature of the form allows ARGs to incorporate elements of so many other art forms and works that attempting to identify them all would be a nearly impossible task.

By the same token, weaknesses of classroom learning through ARGs include the need for a flexible narrative conducive to collaborative learning in large groups and a sophisticated web design. In a contribution to a volume focusing on play and cities in Springer's Gaming Media and Social Effects series, Eddie Duggan (2017) provides an overview of pervasive games, and discusses characteristics in ARGs, LARPs, RPGs, assassination games and other games where the notion of the "magic circle" as elaborated by Salen and ZimmermanSalen, K. and Zimmerman, E. (2004) Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals. MIT Press. Cambridge. pp. 94-99. is confounded.

Between 2007 and 2014 Funcom has created several alternate reality games such as: Dark Days Are Coming, Two Lines Twine, The End of Days and Division 66. The alternate reality games were created using Twitter, Flickr, 8tracks and several websites created by Funcom such as Kingsmouth and the official game forums. One of these ARGs, called The End of Days, engaged more than 600,000 players from 22 countries and also had real-life quests in seven cities around the world. The ARGs provided the players with more insight in the lore and story behind The Secret World and also in-game rewards.

Java Map has a method `computeIfAbsent` that can be used to emulate autovivificous maps. public static Function defaultDict(Map map, Supplier supplier) { return key -> map.computeIfAbsent(key, k -> supplier.get()); } public static void main(String[] args) { Function> dict = defaultDict(new HashMap<>(), ArrayList::new); dict.apply("foo").

SavedState; Console.WriteLine("Originator: State after restoring from Memento: " + state); } public class Memento { public readonly string SavedState; public Memento(string stateToSave) { SavedState = stateToSave; } } } class Caretaker { static void Main(string[] args) { List savedStates = new List(); Originator originator = new Originator(); originator.Set("State1"); originator.Set("State2"); savedStates.Add(originator.

For instance, a hello world program in Java may look like: public class HelloWorld { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello, world!"); } } To run this program, one must call `java HelloWorld` in the directory where the compiled class file `HelloWorld.class`) exists.

Majestic was one of the first alternate reality games (ARGs), a type of game that blurs the line between in-game and out-of-game experiences. Majestic was created by Neil Young.The Game Archaeologist: EA's Majestic , www.engadget.com It debuted on July 31, 2001.

The show regularly initiates collaborative projects to involve its community. Some of these have been a collaborative film, flash game battles, Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), and participation in an eco-challenge called Seven Days Without Plastic. Participating members are incorporated into the show.

The years immediately after the Beast saw independent developers who had played it extend the form from a one-time occurrence to a new genre of gaming, and the formation of an ever-growing community devoted to playing, designing and discussing ARGs.

The traditional Hello world program can be written in Java as: public class HelloWorldApp { public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("Hello World!"); // Prints the string to the console. } } All source files must be named after the public class they contain, appending the suffix `.

A simple "Hello, World!" Vala program: void main () { print ("Hello World "); } A more complex version, showing some of Vala's object-oriented features: class Sample: Object { void greeting () { stdout.printf ("Hello World "); } static void main (string[] args) { var sample = new Sample (); sample.greeting (); } } Sample code to show Vala interface with default implementation (mixin) using GLib; interface Printable { public abstract string print (); public virtual string pretty_print () { return "Please " + print (); } } class NormalPrint: Object, Printable { string print () { return "don't forget about me"; } } class OverridePrint: Object, Printable { string print () { return "Mind the gap"; } public override string pretty_print () { return "Override"; } } void main (string[] args) { var normal = new NormalPrint (); var overridden = new OverridePrint (); print (normal.

Due to factors like "the curtain", attempts to begin games with "stealth launches" that fulfill the TINAG (This Is Not a Game) aesthetic, and the restrictive non-disclosure agreements governing how much information may be revealed by the puppet masters of promotional games, the design process for many ARGs is often shrouded in secrecy, making it difficult to discern the extent to which they have been influenced by other works. In addition, the cross-media nature of the form allows ARGs to incorporate elements of so many other art forms and works that attempting to identify them all would be a nearly impossible task far beyond the scope of this article.

Clues and stories from the series sent players online to stop a bioterrorist attack. In 2006, the TV tie-in ARG began to come into its own when there was a surge of ARGs that extended the worlds of related television shows onto the internet and into the real world. As with Push, Nevada, ABC led the way, launching three TV tie-in ARGs in 2006: Kyle XY, Ocular Effect (for the show Fallen) and The LOST Experience (for the show LOST). ABC joined with Channel 4 in the UK and Australia's Channel 7 in promoting a revamped web site for The Hanso Foundation.

Members of the Cloudmakers group went on to form ARGN, the primary news source for the genre, and Unfiction, its central community hub, as well as designing the first successful and widely played indie ARGs, such as LockJaw and Metacortechs, and corporate efforts such as Perplex City.

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This example program prints its command line arguments. The `main` function is the entry point of a D program, and `args` is an array of strings representing the command line arguments. A `string` in D is an array of characters, represented by `immutable(char)[]`. import std.

The following code examples uses an SHT21 sensor and reads the relative humidity. public class SHT21Demo { public static void main(String[] args) { // sensor is connected to I2C bus instance 1 NativeI2C i2c = NativeI2C.getInstance(1); i2c.open(); // create and init SHT21 sensor instance SHT21 sht21 = new SHT21(i2c); sht21.setResolution(SHT21.

Produced by Xenophile Media in association with Shaftesbury Films, clues and stories from the series sent players online to stop a bioterrorist attack. In 2006, the TV tie-in ARG began to come into its own when there was a surge of ARGs that extended the worlds of related television shows onto the Internet and into the real world. As with Push, Nevada, ABC led the way, launching three TV tie-in ARGs in 2006: Kyle XY, Ocular Effect (for the show Fallen) and The LOST Experience (for the show LOST). ABC joined with Channel 4 in the UK and Australia's Channel 7 in promoting a revamped website for The Hanso Foundation.

List; public class DeadStoreExample { public static void main(String[] args) { List list = new ArrayList(); // This is a Dead Store, as the ArrayList is never read. list = getList(); System.out.println(list); } private static List getList() { return new ArrayList(Arrays.asList("Hello")); } } In the above code an `ArrayList` object was instantiated but never used.

Just as main is the entry point to the static code, this one method is the entry point to the applications non-static code. public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { // Construction code. Greeter greeter = new Greeter(System.out); // This may be many lines that connect many objects // Behavior code. greeter.

The assembly is built up with the CIL code, which is an intermediate language. The framework internally converts the CIL [bytecode] into native assembly code. If we have a program that prints "Hello World", the equivalent CIL code for the method is: .method private hidebysig static void Main(string[] args) cil managed { .

The variable will always refer to an object that is an instance of a class that implements the parameterized type. Heap Pollution in a non-varargs context public class HeapPollutionDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { Set s = new TreeSet(); Set ss = s; // unchecked warning s.add(new Integer(42)); // another unchecked warning Iterator iter = ss.iterator(); while (iter.

If an application is contained in a JAR file, the Java Virtual Machine needs to know the application's entry point. An entry point is any class with a `public static void main(String[] args)` method. This information is provided in the Main-Class header, which has the general form: Main-Class: com.example.MyClassName In this example `com.example.MyClassName.

The company behind Funcom's last 2 ARGs, Human Equation, a Montreal-based entertainment studio who also created an independent ARG called Qadhos, has even further purchased the rights to a special class of characters, The Black Watchmen, to create their own independent ARG. A spin-off of Human Equation, Alice & Smith, released the game in June 2015.

Dave Szulborski (June 23, 1957 – April 23, 2009) was the first professional independent alternate reality game developer, and an authority on ARGs. His books on the subject are used today in curricula on alternate reality games and transmedia storytelling. His independent games included ChangeAgents, Chasing the Wish, and Urban Hunt. He holds the Guinness World Record for Most Prolific ARG developer.

Hourly data from the ARG stations are transmitted to a geostationary satellite, which re-transmits the data, which help to validate the measurements from the Doppler radar, to the receiving earth station at Pune. The ARGs are run on solar power. The first one was installed in Sholinganallur followed by Taramani, Anna University, Hindustan University, LMOIS Kolapakkam, Poonamallee, Chembarambakkam, Puzhal, Kattupakkam and Avadi.

X++ integrates SQL queries into standard Java-style code. The following three examples produce the same result, though the first has generally better performance. Samples 2 and 3 hint at an object-like behavior from table buffers. Sample #1 /// /// This job is used as an X++ sample /// public static void xppTest1(Args _args) { UserInfo userInfo; ttsBegin; update_recordset userInfo setting enable = NoYes::No where userInfo.

It was originally numbered 1.5, which is still used as the internal version number. Developed under JSR 176, Tiger added several significant new language features including the for-each loop, generics, autoboxing and var- args. Java SE 6 (December 11, 2006) – Codename Mustang. It was bundled with a database manager and facilitates the use of scripting languages with the JVM (such as JavaScript using Mozilla's Rhino engine).

Taylor is former commissioning editor, Education for the British TV station Channel 4, where she developed a number of informal learning projects involving ARGs, casual gaming and other interactive entertainment formats. Before this, she was the Vice President of Digital Content for BBC Worldwide. In September 2006 she was named one of the Game Industry's 100 Most Influential Women by Next Generation Magazine Online. She founded and edits the blog Wonderland.

Andrea Phillips (born 20 July 1974) is an American transmedia game designer and writer. She has been active in the genres of transmedia storytelling and alternate reality games (ARGs), in a variety of roles, since 2001. She has written for, designed, or substantially participated in the creation of Perplex City, the BAFTA-nominated Routes (a project of Channel 4), and The 2012 Experience, a marketing campaign for the film 2012.

Later in his career, he created ARGs, puzzles, and stories for projects as varied as marketing campaigns and military training exercises. He was also a public speaker and contributing author on the topic of interactive storytelling. Szulborski died in April 2009 of leukemia. Before his death, his battle with the illness prompted friends and fans of his work to create Folding the Wish, a project to send him a thousand origami cranes.

Neither the cost of creating the book nor sales figures are available (although it made both American and British bestseller lists) to determine whether the project was successfully self-funded. It is difficult to judge the efficacy of self-funded ARG models at this time, but it seems likely that exploration of ways to fund large-scale ARGs without using them as marketing for other products will continue as the genre grows.

Manually assembling in main by hand is one way of implementing dependency injection. public class Injector { public static void main(String[] args) { // Build the dependencies first Service service = new ExampleService(); // Inject the service, constructor style Client client = new Client(service); // Use the objects System.out.println(client.greet()); } } The example above constructs the object graph manually and then invokes it at one point to start it working. Important to note is that this injector is not pure.

Following Cogs, the company began work on a social game called Extrasolar, spurred by their participation in the Potato Sack ARG. Extrasolar plans to have players working with others to solve puzzles in an ARG-like environment, but without the real- time limitations required by most ARGs. Lazy 8 Studios was invited by Irrational Games to develop a browser-based tie-in puzzle game for their pending release of BioShock Infinite. It is titled BioShock Infinite: Industrial Revolution.

Unlike C, the name of the program is not included in `args`, because it is the name of the class that contains the main method, so it is already known. Also unlike C, the number of arguments need not be included, since arrays in Java have a field that keeps track of how many elements there are. The main function must be included within a class. This is because in Java everything has to be contained within a class.

ARGs have been recognized by the mainstream entertainment world: The Ocular Effect, an ARG promoting the TV movie The Fallen and produced in the autumn of 2007 by Xenophile Media Inc. was awarded a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Achievement for an Interactive Television Program. Xenophile Media Inc.'s ReGenesis Extended Reality Game won an International Interactive Emmy Award in 2007 and in April 2008 The Truth About Marika won the iEmmy for Best Interactive TV service.

Many compilers can statically check format strings and produce warnings for dangerous or suspect formats. In the GNU Compiler Collection, the relevant compiler flags are, `-Wall`,`-Wformat`, `-Wno-format-extra-args`, `-Wformat-security`, `-Wformat-nonliteral`, and `-Wformat=2`. Most of these are only useful for detecting bad format strings that are known at compile- time. If the format string may come from the user or from a source external to the application, the application must validate the format string before using it.

Following the `uses` clause a file contains type declarations, like they are known from Delphi: interface type ConsoleApp = class public class method Main; end; As in C#, the Main method is the entry point for every program. It can have a parameter `args : Array of String` for passing command line arguments to the program. More types can be declared without repeating the `type` keyword. The implementation of the declared methods is placed in the implementation section: implementation class method ConsoleApp.

I Love Bees makes use of "link- chasing" and is designed to foster viral marketing. Examples of through-the- line (TTL) advertising in games include "link-chases," ARGs, and viral marketing. TTL marketing is a form of advertising in video games that involve the use of URL hyperlinks within the game designed to induce the player to visit a web page which then contains BTL advertisements. The technique used to tempt the player into visiting the intended URL varies from game to game.

The Nokia Game was a series of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) produced by Human-i Euro RSCG for Nokia. The concept was developed by Joost van Liemt and Sicco Beerda. Although mainly a competition through which Nokia promotes their latest phones, it is a true ARG which fuses various forms of mass media, promotes communication between players, and features involving storylines which change every year. The original Nokia Game took place in 1999, and was only open to residents in the Netherlands.

PrintLiteral(this); } public override double GetValue() { return Value; } } public class Addition : Expression { public Expression Left { get; set; } public Expression Right { get; set; } public Addition(Expression left, Expression right) { Left = left; Right = right; } public override void Accept(ExpressionPrintingVisitor v) { v.PrintAddition(this); } public override double GetValue() { return Left.GetValue() + Right.GetValue(); } } public static class Program { public static void Main(string[] args) { // Emulate 1 + 2 + 3 var e = new Addition( new Addition( new Literal(1), new Literal(2) ), new Literal(3) ); var printingVisitor = new ExpressionPrintingVisitor(); e.

Downcasting is useful when the type of the value referenced by the Parent variable is known and often is used when passing a value as a parameter. In the below example, the method objectToString takes an Object parameter which is assumed to be of type String. public static String objectToString(Object myObject) { // This will only work when the myObject currently holding value is string. return (String)myObject; } public static void main(String args[]) { // This will work since we passed in String, so myObject has value of String.

The following system under test contains a simple race condition between two threads accessing the same variable `d` in statements (1) and (2), which can lead to a division by zero exception if (1) is executed before (2) public class Racer implements Runnable { int d = 42; public void run () { doSomething(1001); d = 0; // (1) } public static void main (String[] args){ Racer racer = new Racer(); Thread t = new Thread(racer); t.start(); doSomething(1000); int c = 420 / racer.d; // (2) System.out.println(c); } static void doSomething (int n) { try { Thread.

In his novel Halting State, Charles Stross foresightedly describes a number of possible ARGs, where players engage in seemingly fictional covert spy operations. In 2008 the European Union funded an ARG to support motivation for multilingualism within European secondary school students called ARGuing for Multilingual Motivation in Web 2.0. As noted above in World Without Oil, to complete this ARG it was necessary to move away from the strict definitions of an ARG as listed. The ARG was by invitation only and players (students) knew they were going to play a game.

Meigeist, produced by a new professional puppetmaster team, garnered a great deal of community attention and affection with a light, humorous storyline and numerous references to past ARGs. The teaser site for World Without Oil, the first major "Serious ARG", was unveiled in March 2007; the game itself launched on 30 April and ran through 1 June, gathering over 1500 videos, images, blog entries and voice mails to document the "Oil Crisis of 2007." In May 2007, 42 Entertainment launched Why So Serious, an ARG to promote the feature film The Dark Knight.

Alternate reality games or ARGs are designed to involve fans of video games or other media in a form of viral marketing which CNET described as encompassing "real-life treasure hunting, interactive storytelling, video games and online [communities]". I Love Bees began when jars of honey were received in the mail by people who had previously participated in alternate reality games. The jars contained letters leading to the I Love Bees website and a countdown. At around the same time, theatrical trailers for Halo 2 concluded with the Xbox logo and a URL, Xbox.

RetentionPolicy; // This is the annotation to be processed // Default for Target is all Java Elements // Change retention policy to RUNTIME (default is CLASS) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) public @interface TypeHeader { // Default value specified for developer attribute String developer() default "Unknown"; String lastModified(); String [] teamMembers(); int meaningOfLife(); } // This is the annotation being applied to a class @TypeHeader(developer = "Bob Bee", lastModified = "2013-02-12", teamMembers = { "Ann", "Dan", "Fran" }, meaningOfLife = 42) public class SetCustomAnnotation { // Class contents go here } // This is the example code that processes the annotation import java.lang.annotation.Annotation; import java.lang.reflect.AnnotatedElement; public class UseCustomAnnotation { public static void main(String [] args) { Class classObject = SetCustomAnnotation.

Lee began his career as a character designer at Industrial Light and Magic, where he worked on several motion pictures including the computer special effects for Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Lee was then hired by Microsoft Game Studios as Lead Game Designer, designing and directing games for PC and Xbox. While working for Microsoft he was the Executive Producer and Lead Designer for The Beast, one of the world’s first Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) used to promoted the Steven Spielberg film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Lee has co-founded several start-ups all within the gaming arena.

Gson uses reflection, so it does not require classes being serialized or de-serialized to be modified. By default, it just needs the class to have defined default no-args constructor (which can be worked around, see Features). The following example demonstrates the most basic usage of Gson when serializing a sample object: module GsonExample { requires gson; requires java.sql; // Required by gson exports Person; exports Car; } package Car; public class Car { public String manufacturer; public String model; public double capacity; public boolean accident; public Car() { } public Car(String manufacturer, String model, double capacity, boolean accident) { this.

In March 2006, Elan Lee and Dawne Weisman founded edoc laundry, a company designed to produce ARGs using clothes as the primary platform. Consumers decipher the codes hidden within the garments and input the results into the game's main website to reveal pieces of a story about the murder of a band manager. Reviving the pay-to-play model, Studio Cypher launched the first chapter of its "multiplayer novel" in May 2006. Each "chapter" is a mini-ARG for which participants who pay the $10 registration fee receive earlier access to information and greater opportunities to interact with characters than non- paying participants.

Instead of challenging collective intelligence to solve a game mastered puzzle, World Without Oil's puppetmasters acted as players to guide the "collective imagination" to create a multi-authored chronicle of the alternative future, purportedly as it was happening. By asking players to chronicle their lives in the oil-shocked alternative reality, the WWO game relinquished narrative control to players to a degree not seen before in an ARG. In October 2008 The British Red Cross created a serious ARG called Traces of Hope to promote their campaign about civilians caught up in conflict. There are possible future Serious ARGs described in fiction.

The young-adult novel contains an "evidence packet" and expands its universe through websites and working phone numbers, but is also a stand- alone novel that essentially functions as an individually playable ARG. Neither the cost of creating the book nor sales figures are available (although it made both American and British bestseller lists) to determine whether the project was successfully self-funded. It is difficult to judge the efficacy of self-funded ARG models at this time, but it seems likely that exploration of ways to fund large-scale ARGs without using them as marketing for other products will continue as the genre grows.

In computer programming, field encapsulation involves providing methods that can be used to read from or write to the field rather than accessing the field directly. Sometimes these accessor methods are called getX and setX (where X is the field's name), which are also known as mutator methods. Usually the accessor methods have public visibility while the field being encapsulated is given private visibility - this allows a programmer to restrict what actions another user of the code can perform. Compare the following Java class in which the name field has not been encapsulated: public class NormalFieldClass { public String name; public static void main(String[] args) { NormalFieldClass example1 = new NormalFieldClass(); example1.

During her tenure at Disney she also produced the exterior of ABC's Times Square Studios, the home of Good Morning America. She left Disney after ten years to become Chief Design and Production Officer for Cyan Worlds, the company behind the top-selling PC games Myst and Riven. In 2003, Bonds joined with Jordan Weisman, Sean Stewart, and Elan Lee, veterans of the pioneering ARG The Beast, in the launch of what was then called 4orty 2wo Entertainment. With Joe DiNunzio, also a former Imagineering executive, as president, the company created a number of successful ARGs, starting with ilovebees and continuing with Last Call Poker for Activision, Dead Man's Poker for Disney, and Vanishing Point for Microsoft's Windows Vista.

In other words, after the labeling literal has been considered, all variables are assigned a value. Typically, constraint logic programs are written in such a way labeling literals are evaluated only after as many constraints as possible have been accumulated in the constraint store. This is because labeling literals enforce search, and search is more efficient if there are more constraints to be satisfied. A constraint satisfaction problem is typical solved by a constraint logic program having the following structure: solve(X):-constraints(X), labeling(X) constraints(X):- (all constraints of the CSP) When the interpreter evaluates the goal `solve(args)`, it places the body of a fresh variant of the first clause in the current goal.

Fmin` function which uses F-bounded quantification. In mathematical notation, the types of the two functions are :min: ∀ T, ∀ S ⊆ {compareTo: T → int}. S → S → S :Fmin: ∀ T ⊆ Comparable[T]. T → T → T where :Comparable[T] = {compareTo: T → int} interface Comparable { public int compareTo(T other); } class Integer implements Comparable { @Override public int compareTo(Integer other) { //... } } class String implements Comparable { @Override public int compareTo(String other) { //... } } class Test { public static void main(String[] args) { Comparable a = min("cat", "dog"); Comparable b = min(new Integer(10), new Integer(3)); String str = Fmin("cat", "dog"); Integer i = Fmin(new Integer(10), new Integer(3)); } public static ~~S min(S a, S b) { if (a.

Although the Beast ran for only three months, it prompted the formation of a highly organized and intensely engaged community that remains active years after the game concluded. Perhaps more significantly, it inspired a number of its participants to create games adapting and expanding the model, extending it from an anomalous one-time occurrence to a new genre of entertainment and allowing the community to grow even after the Beast itself concluded. Members of the Cloudmakers group went on to form ARGN, the primary news source for the genre, and Unfiction, its central community hub, as well as designing the first successful and widely played indie ARGs, such as LockJaw and Metacortechs, and corporate efforts such as Perplex City.

The game's tagline, "It plays you", emphasized the nature of ARGs and the game's suspense. One of the first things the player experienced in Majestic was news that the game had stopped, yet they would receive messages suggesting that there was a conspiracy behind the stoppage. Majestic was said to have been inspired by The Game, a 1997 movie that featured something like an ARG which repeatedly confused the main character into thinking he was not playing. This game was also inspired by the "Area 51 caller" on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM. The game comprised five episodes: A pilot episode was free to try but the four remaining episodes required players to join EA.com's Platinum Service, which cost $9.95 USD per month.

Other possible antecedents include performance art and other theatrical forms that attempt to directly engage the audience. The One Game, a British television drama serial screened in 1988, was entirely based on the premise of the protagonist being forced to play an ARG (referred to as a "reality game" in the script). Due to the influence, the Beast exerted over the form of later ARGs and the willingness of its creators to talk about its development, its sources of inspiration are both particularly relevant to the evolution of the modern ARG and somewhat more verifiable than other possible antecedents. Elan Lee, one of its creative principals, cites the 1997 movie The Game as an inspiration, as well as the Beatles' "Paul is dead" phenomenon.

Along with 42 Entertainment's previous ARG known as The Beast, I Love Bees is credited with bringing greater attention to the fledgling marketing form; I Love Bees not only helped assuage fears by marketers about the costs of ARG failure, but attracted interest from other game developers in using alternate reality games to promote their own products. Before I Love Bees, The Guardian stated that "ARGs were destined to join Letsbuyit.com and Barcode Battlers in the e-dustbin of nice ideas that never really caught on"; the explosion of broadband internet access and a renewed interest in codes allowed I Love Bees to become wildly successful. Bungie would later use another ARG called "Iris" to promote Halo 2s sequel, Halo 3.

The development of Frog Fractions 2 was accompanied by two multiple-year ARG, gaining much media attention. Stormdancer had often referred to what would be released as Frog Fractions 2, the game, as "Frog Fractions 3", envisioning the ARGs as "Frog Fractions 2" and a game in and of itself. Large coordinated efforts of players worked together to try to decipher the elements of the ARG. One ARG involved hiding parts of Frog Fractions 2 within several different indie games on Steam, including Crypt of the NecroDancer, The Magic Circle, Quadrilateral Cowboy, Duskers, Firewatch, and Moon Hunters, where different parts of an "eye sigil" graphic was found, directly players to find a portion of a map within the game, which eventually pointed to real life locations.

After the success of the first major entries in the nascent ARG genre, a number of large corporations looked to ARGs to both promote their products, and to enhance their companies' images by demonstrating their interest in innovative and fan-friendly marketing methods. To create buzz for the launch of the Xbox game Halo 2, Microsoft hired the team that had created the Beast, now operating independently as 42 Entertainment. The result, I Love Bees, departed radically from the website-hunting and puzzle-solving that had been the focus of the Beast. I Love Bees wove together an interactive narrative set in 2004, and a War of the Worlds-style radio drama set in the future, the latter of which was broken into 30–60-second segments and broadcast over ringing payphones worldwide.

As the genre has grown, there has been increasing interest in exploring models that provide funding for large-scale ARGs that are neither promotions for other products nor limited by the generally small budget of grassroots/indie games. The two major trends that have emerged in this area support through the sale of products related to the game, and fees for participation in the game. A third possible model is one using in-game advertising for other products, as in The LOST Experience, but at this time no large-scale game has attempted to fund itself solely through in-game advertising. The first major attempt (other than EA's failed Majestic) to create a self-supporting ARG was Perplex City, which launched in 2005 after a year's worth of teasers.

After the success of the first major entries in the nascent ARG genre, a number of large corporations looked to ARGs to promote both their products, and to add their companies' images by demonstrating their interest in innovative and fan-friendly marketing methods. To create buzz for the launch of the Xbox game Halo 2, Microsoft hired the team that had created the Beast, now operating independently as 42 Entertainment. The result, I Love Bees, departed radically from the website-hunting and puzzle-solving that had been the focus of the Beast. I Love Bees wove together an interactive narrative set in 2004, and a War Of The Worlds-style radio drama set in the future, the latter of which was broken into 30- to 60-second segments and broadcast over ringing payphones worldwide.

As the genre has grown, there has been increasing interest in exploring models that provide funding for large-scale ARGs that are neither promotions for other products or limited by the generally small budget of grassroots/indie games. The two major trends that have emerged in this area are support through the sale of products related to the game, and fees for participation in the game. A third possible model is one using in-game advertising for other products, as in The LOST Experience, but at this time no large-scale game has attempted to fund itself solely through in-game advertising. The first major attempt (other than EA's failed Majestic) to create a self-supporting ARG was Perplex City, which launched in 2005 after a year's worth of teasers.

Before the development of the ARG genre, television sought to extend the reality of its shows onto the web with websites that treated their world as real, rather than discussing it as fiction. An early example was Fox's Freakylinks, developed by Haxan, creators of The Blair Witch Project, who would later go on to develop the well-known ARGs The Art of the Heist and Who Is Benjamin Stove. Freakylinks employed a website designed to look like it had been created by amateur paranormal enthusiasts to generate internet interest in the show, which gathered a cult following but was canceled after 13 episodes. In September 2002, following a successful initial foray into ARG-like territory with 2001's Alias web game, ABC brought alternate reality gaming more definitively to the television screen with the show Push, Nevada.

Classes with such a constructor are treated specially during uniform initialization (see below) The template class `std::initializer_list<>` is a first-class C++11 standard library type. They can be constructed statically by the C++11 compiler via use of the `{}` syntax without a type name in contexts where such braces will deduce to an `std::initializer_list`, or by explicitly specifying the type like `std::initializer_list{args}` (and so on for other varieties of construction syntax). The list can be copied once constructed, which is cheap and will act as a copy-by-reference (the class is typically implemented as a pair of begin/end pointers). An `std::initializer_list` is constant: its members cannot be changed once it is created, and nor can the data in those members be changed (which rules out moving from them, requiring copies into class members, etc.).

Reader- influenced online fiction such as AOL's QuantumLink Serial provides a model that incorporates audience influence into the storytelling in a manner similar to that of ARGs, as do promotional online games like Wizards of the Coast's Webrunner games. Live action role-playing games (LARPs) are a major influence on the ARG concept, particularly those such as played by UCLA's Enigma group, the MIT Assassin's Guild, and Dead Earth Productions (a horror LARP company in the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1980s to the mid-1990s), although most notably White Wolf's "Vampire: The Masquerade." LARPs have often extended into the real world, where players can encounter actors and clues that further a real-time gaming plot. Other possible antecedents include performance art and other theatrical forms that attempt to break Brecht's "fourth wall" and directly engage the audience.

The ARG offered a $200,000 prize to the first player to locate the buried Receda Cube and was funded by the sale of puzzle cards. The first season of the game ended in January 2007, when Andy Darley found the Receda Cube at Wakerly Great Wood in Northamptonshire, UK. Mind Candy, the production company, has also produced a board game related to the ARG and plans to continue it with a second season beginning March 1, 2007. Whether the model was a success is unknown at this time, although Mind Candy's acceptance of corporate sponsorship and venture capital suggests that the puzzle cards alone are not enough to fully fund the ARG at this time. In March 2006, Elan Lee and Dawne Weisman founded edoc laundry, a company designed to produce ARGs using clothes as the primary platform.

Even before the development of the ARG genre, television sought to extend the reality of its shows onto the web with websites that treated the world as real, rather than discussing it as fiction. An early example was Fox's Freakylinks, developed by Haxan, creators of the Blair Witch Project, who would later go on to develop the well-known ARGs The Art of the Heist and Who Is Benjamin Stove. Freakylinks employed a website designed to look like it had been created by amateur paranormal enthusiasts to generate internet interest in the show, which gathered a cult following but was canceled after 13 episodes. In September 2002, following a successful initial foray into ARG-like territory with 2001's Alias web game, ABC brought alternate reality gaming more definitively to the television screen with the show Push, Nevada.

G. K. Chesterton's 1905 short story "The Tremendous Adventures of Major Brown" (part of a collection entitled The Club of Queer Trades) seems to predict the ARG concept, as does John Fowles' 1965 novel The Magus. The combination board and card game, Vlet, that many of the main characters in Delany's science fiction novel Triton (published in 1976) play throughout his novel appears to be a type of ARG. (The game's name was borrowed from a similar game in short story by Russ entitled "A Game of Vlet".) Ludic texts such as the popular Choose Your Own Adventure children's novels may also have provided some inspiration. Reader-influenced online fiction such as AOL's QuantumLink Serial provides a model that incorporates audience influence into the storytelling in a manner similar to that of ARGs, as do promotional online games like Wizards of the Coast's Webrunner games.

" The list of experts on the panel included writer/producer from Heroes and Lost Jesse Alexander, Ivan Askwith, director of strategy at creative agency Big Spaceship ("Tim Burton at MOMA," "The Million Baby Crawl"); Elan Lee, chief designer and founder Fourth Wall Studios (Watchmen, Kings ARGs); Mike Monello, cofounder and executive creative director at entertainment marketing agency Campfire (True Blood, "Discovery Channel: Shark Week); and Ian Sander, executive producer, Ghost Whisperer. 20th Century Fox Television executives Gary Newman and Dana Walden were the keynote speakers on April 12 discussing the opportunities and challenges facing TV studios at a time of technological upheaval. Los Angeles Times business reporter Joe Flint moderated. Comic book legend Stan Lee held a panel on April 14 and there was a significant 3D presence- 3ality demonstrated their 3D equipment at the Sony booth, and Element Technica, Panasonic, P+S Technik and Canon Broadcast made appearances as well.

Scala implements `Option` as a parameterized type, so a variable can be an `Option`, accessed as follows: object Main { // This function uses pattern matching to deconstruct `Option`s def computeV1(opt: Option[Int]): String = opt match { case Some(x) => s"The value is: $x" case None => "No value" } // This function uses the built-in `fold` method def computeV2(opt: Option[Int]): String = opt.fold("No value")(x => s"The value is: $x") def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = { // Define variables that are `Option`s of type `Int` val full = Some(42) val empty: Option[Int] = None // computeV1(full) -> The value is: 42 println(s"computeV1(full) -> ${computeV1(full)}") // computeV1(empty) -> No value println(s"computeV1(empty) -> ${computeV1(empty)}") // computeV2(full) -> The value is: 42 println(s"computeV2(full) -> ${computeV2(full)}") // computeV2(empty) -> No value println(s"computeV2(empty) -> ${computeV2(empty)}") } } Two main ways to use an `Option` value exist. The first, not the best, is the pattern matching, as in the first example. The second, the best practice is a monadic approach, as in the second example.

2006 produced less large- scale corporate ARGs than past years, but the ARG form continued to spread and be adapted for promotional uses, as an increasing number of TV shows and movies extended their universes onto the internet through such means as character blogs and ARG-like puzzle trails, and as an increasing number of independent/grassroots games launched, with varying levels of success. lonelygirl15, a popular series of videos on YouTube, relinquished an unprecedented amount of control to its audience by recognizing a fan-created game as the "official" ARG. 2007 got off to a strong start immediately, with Microsoft's Vanishing Point to promote the launch of Windows Vista. The game was designed by 42 Entertainment and, due in part to many large-scale real world events, such as a lavish show at the Bellagio Fountain in Las Vegas as well as a prizes of a trip into space and having a winner's name engraved on all AMD Athlon 64 FX chips for a certain period of time, received large media attention.