Hi I have always liked watching people solve args, but never tried It on my own. Im curious on how should I start getting into solving args. I would just love to know how you know more about how to solve them, or whatever you think its good to know.
Thanks!
There's an ARG that I remember existing awhile back and initially became aware of it through Nexpo, I believe. It's a YouTube channel called iam*somethingsomething* (can't remember the specific name? In my head it was iamemmaemma but looking that up doesn't get me anything), it was about a woman who woke up one day and was trapped in an empty version of her house. She had everything that she needed to survive, the fridge and cupboards restocked themselves when she closed them, and all of the taps ram clean water. I remember that there were also a bunch of entities in the house that stalked her but didn't want her dead. The whole concept of the channel was that she was posting videos to YouTube somehow to keep herself entertained/sane, and that at a certain point she was even talking to the audience directly via the comment section. There was also something about a door she found that lead to a peaceful place called the garden, but after going there for a long time her health started to deteriorate and after awhile she lost access to both the garden and the youtube comments again.
I tried looking up similar names, like different varieties of feminine names that start with E, doing "hiim" instead "iam", and even looked for the Nexpo video itself with no luck, it's like this thing disappeared. Does anyone remember this ARG at all? Was it ever resolved? Did it actually get deleted for some reason? Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. This isn't some stupid set up for an ARG about an ARG that disappeared, I'm just genuinely sad that I can't find a cool horror thing that I was really interested in awhile back.
Edit: hiimmarymary
I stumbled across what might be the beginning of an ARG (or some kind of hidden puzzle) on a random French YouTube channel.
There are several timestamps throughout the video where seemingly random letters/numbers appear.
I’m not sure if they’re connected, but I’d love some help from people who are good at ciphers, cryptography, or finding hidden patterns.
Here’s what I found:
6:00 — utpjrts
14:00 — tozismmiz
16:50 — 087
17:00 — dlmltajhmjpyqvshuppu
37:00 — hgaf xgazng
50:00 — tlnvjr
56:00 — ihml stwn
Video: https://youtu.be/9rqfeM03nVM
The video is in French, but the hidden sequences themselves might not be.
I have no idea yet whether these are encrypted, encoded, generated with a cipher, or simply random. The fact that they appear at specific timestamps makes me think there might be a pattern connecting them.
Thanks in advance to everyone who takes the time to look into this and help!
Hey everyone, I just came accross a this weird youtube channel. It posts kinda creepy videos and just now it posted something that i could somewhat decode to ancient Kabyle and roughly says "Stop, don't drag me into this; let the dead rest in peace — because you don't want nightmares, and you want to sleep."
What do we all think of this ?
I'm building a persistent AI TTRPG with an ARG buried underneath it
Temple of Eden is a free, persistent fantasy TTRPG built around ChatGPT.
On the surface, it’s a playable world: create a character, explore the Temple across different historical ages, talk to people, take jobs, get into trouble, and continue the same campaign later.
But the world is deliberately incomplete.
Records contradict each other. Certain places and symbols recur across centuries. Characters sometimes know things they probably shouldn’t. Parts of the Temple’s history appear to have been erased, rewritten, or deliberately buried.
The ARG is about figuring out what actually happened.
I don’t want to dump the “secret lore” in a wiki. The idea is that players gradually reconstruct it from encounters, documents, architecture, historical inconsistencies, and clues scattered through the setting.
Some current questions include:
- Why do accounts of the Temple’s origin disagree?
- Why do the same motifs appear in completely different historical periods?
- What happened during the parts of the chronology nobody seems willing to describe plainly?
- And why does the Temple seem to preserve some memories while actively obscuring others?
It is still early, and I’m specifically interested in feedback from people who actually play ARGs: does this feel like a rabbit hole worth following, and what would make you want to start pulling at the thread?
The public entrance is here:
The willow
A supernatural willow tree that controls creakings the mobs lores
Type one pale oak highly unstable
Type 2 dark oak calm but reacts to lapis
Type 3 spruce like a normal creaking but can summon spikes
Type 4 oak can summon vines
These all have different dimensions and come from a lab where they were tested each dimension has a willow core you have to somehow break it
Honestly, I don’t care the motive, I’m flattered. The only bummer is now I have to “yes and” this new website into my ARG’s universe. Since there is no way to inform players that this is not ME (mainly because ME doesn’t even exist), I think my only option is to roll with it.
Here’s what happened:
I’ve been working on my narrative since mid December. In late January I published my first website artifact for one of two fictional organizations. The other company website wasn’t required for the first Act’s narrative, so I simply bought the domain I would use (and a handful of similar ones just to be safe) and sat on the initiative while I finished the first part and launched it.
Lo and behold, there was a domain I DIDN’T think to buy…and some mad genius whipped up a website for the other company without my knowledge.
The crazy part is that it isn’t entirely off the mark of what I would have done. However some key details (like founding timeline and primary business verticals) are completely different.
I’ve tried contacting them, but their contact page doesn’t work and the email on the site likewise bounces back.
So here I am.
Frustrated by the forced course change, but flattered by the high jacking nonetheless. I’m at peace, but…
…what would you do?
hello! I would like help someone in any arg keep in fact that I only have a phone. I could make sound effects, messages and things that are only available on phones. I can't go in person tho. I can help with game args if it's available I am a Great actor it could be a small or big arg I just want to act or help alsoalso I can also only act in game args and only help with irl args and I don't want anything in return I only want to act.
Let me first come clean and say I am not a gaming connoisseur... I am a horror writer working on my first feature, but someone (an actual gaming connoisseur) gave me the idea to make an ARG connected to it. So I ran with the storyline, made a bunch of accounts - like this one for the main character - and had an absolute blast building the puzzles and the world. Now that it's in a playable place, I'd love some feedback if anyone would like to take a crack?
The basic storyline centers on a hacker-and-conspiracy-busting Youtuber who's getting digitally stalked and is stumped by it; he invites his audience to help answer three questions about the identity, location, and intent of the stalker across 9 puzzles. I'm especially curious about a few things, but of course feel free to weigh in on absolutely anything that stands out:
Do you like the story?
Do you like the graphics?
Is it too hard or too easy - and what might help?
Would you recommend it to a friend?
If you make it to the end send me a screenshot! I'd love to send a Brother Skeleton Hacks T-shirt to the first 5 who finish. Or if you want to record your reactions to the game, I'd love that. Thanks so much. Trailhead Here x, Chelsea
I found an arg on YouTube by user 272 I’m going I’m be honest, I am not smart enough to solve it and even if I was I’d have to translate stuff since it is in another language. That being said I wanted to bring attention to it for some reason j can’t post an image but I will link to the channel it has 32 videos and around 30k subs so chances are someone else here has found it
Here is the link to the channel: https://youtube.com/@user272_2?si=4uuDsgQX6veuYBLB
Good luck sorry I’m not smart enough to do it on my own :/
I made a YouTube channel and made a few Google docs yet I don't know how to put it out there or how to make it interesting especially since I can't use capcut or blender. I also don't even have a microphone. Despite this I want to continue please give me advice.
YouTube channel: mono-yellow archives
Hi I'm creating an ARG right now and I've found myself in an ethical dilemma or maybe I'm just not thinking outside the box enough so I've come here for some advice. I'm making it to add lore to my comic book I've written and illustrated. My ARG has a lot of pieces from WW2 and for that I need real historical photos for the 2 characters I've created. They both have very distinct looks. Its hard finding historical photos of people who resemble these characters especially since one has a very prominent mustache that really wouldn't exist on a U.S. Army general at the time due to uniform code. I've floated the idea of using real people and photoshopping the mustache on them but it just doesn't look the way I need it to. I'm considering using AI for just the historical portraits but I know it's the last step to calling my project creatively bankrupt. My project has so much hard work built into it and I don't want people to see this one thing and call it slop. Any ideas on how I can get around this or would you consider a couple set pieces ethical?
Edit: I just thought of the fact that using real historical people and altering them to play a fictional character is essentially stealing their identity and likness which is a whole other ethical dilemma
I don't exactly know how well this is gonna go or if it'll take off at all, though currently, I'm starting my own!
Simply called "helpmegod" (i know, i know, creative), and it's planned to follow a man slowly getting screwed over by an unknown force, but we'll learn more about that soon..
I'd love for you all to come check it out, interact with the protag, and give feedback!
Happy exploring.
Its free and there's no software to load. All you need is a shared google drive and to give a link to your players. Its highly configurable in look and function with a config file. You can create puzzles with hidden folders and encrypted files, and leave clues as text, image and sound files. Instructions at the bottom.
Try it out with username: user and password: test2.
So, I found an ARG on nightmind index called "iris and Plato". The story is about a girl who's website is hijacked by something. It's also inspired by the Plato's cave.
But that's not the point. I need help with a specific puzzle.
And here, you can go and try the ARG yourself, or continue reading. I'll tell you what I found so far, so this is a spoiler. But once you click on the robot cafe article and go to source code, you'll find a Pastebin link in the comment. The Pastebin is password protected. If you look at Nicky's SoundCloud, you'll see the track called "cave". If you put it through spectrogram, you'll see the password is "underthesun".
Once you have access to the Pastebin, it's encrypted with vigenere cipher, with some letters being replaced by numbers and symbols. On the website, once you click on one of the pages and put the soundtrack to it called "new alphabet" through spectrogram, you'll see the key to converting the numbers and symbols to letters.
Here's the part where I need help. Once you put the final result of only letters through vigenere decoder, you get a text that talks about "the iris cafe". But the text has different misspellings. There's a lot of them. So I want to see what plaintext you get to compare it to mine, and see if the misspellings in the final result are due to it being another cipher or me interpreting the symbols from the "new alphabet" incorrectly.
Warning: This message is only for those who crave the thrill of genuine, in-person mystery. This isn't an ordinary ARG - it's a real-life hunt for a mystery related to my hometown and a Canadian journalist who became obsessed with it in 1947.
In November, 1947, a celebrated Canadian journalist alleged my small town was home to groundbreaking atomic research and, more importantly, that an electromagnetic rocket being produced here was being confused for UFOs in the States. Every historian has dismissed the theory out of hand as a baseless conspiracy.
But I'm a local - I know a thing or two about this town. And I know this journalist was definitely on to something.
Interested? Keep reading:
Imagine that, in a single day, the purpose of your life became clear.
I believe each of us is here for a reason.
And on May 12, 2022, as a giant comet blazed across the sky, I discovered mine:
To make an impact through my UFO investigation.
Not by writing a best-selling book. Not by producing an award-winning documentary.
But by realizing that the best part of a mystery is the journey—not the destination.
Because mysteries aren’t meant to be hoarded like Smaug's gold.
They’re meant to be shared.
That’s why I created the CACHE project.
The entire theme is that it’s caché (hidden). You have to find the game first.
Think of it like a speakeasy, except the hidden part is the mystery. Confused upon entry? The game explains it all.
My organization is built to filter for individuals with good hearts, sharp intuition, and a burning desire to discover the truth.
If this project is for you, you’ll easily find the game. You'll easily solve it.
It's only once you start engaging beyond it that you’ll be awed.
Not by what I’ve uncovered in my three-years-long search, but by the unmistakeable sensation of being involved in true discovery.
Because this isn’t about me. It's not about the explosions, mysterious sightings and murders that consistently rocked my childhood town. Heck, it's not even about the mystery.
CACHÉ is about sharing the most thrilling sensation in the world: true adventure.
Because why settle for fiction or video games when the real world is overflowing with unsolved mysteries?
This is about you.
Do you have what it takes?
I’ll see you on the other side.
TLDR: I built a cool game to find capable individuals to help me solve a mystery. Find it, play it, lemme know what you think :D
And remember, it's not meant to be easy - because solving mysteries is hard.
(Desktop not necessary but highly recommended)
– D
To doxxers: This isn't an ordinary ARG. There is no roleplay. This is no mysterious interface. There is no concealment of identity. This is me.
That's because - unlike 99.9% of ARGs - this mystery we're venturing into is real. It's truly unsolved. And we're going to solve it together. Thus, it doesn't need artificial augmentation.