Minecraft ARG meaning explained

It is safe to say that Minecraft is one of the most popular games ever created. Despite its world being entirely made up of pixelated blocks, the sandbox offered lots of opportunities. Since it had both calming and horrifying moments, players quickly started making fictional but gripping stories surrounding the game. One genre of these stories is called ARGs or Alternate Reality Games.

In an ARG, people try to create a mysterious storyline that others can solve. This not only includes a game on which the story is based, but it also includes links, pictures, audio clips, and even real-life clues in order to solve the mystery.

Over the years, hundreds of players have created unique Minecraft ARGs that are both intriguing and sometimes horrifying.

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A look into Minecraft ARGs

Minecraft ARGs usually start from a person weaving a mysterious story, often spooky, which is either posted as a blog on the game's forums or as a YouTube video.

These ARGs started soon after the game was officially released in 2011. Many players noticed that it had an eerie feeling to it and started to create gripping narratives around it.

One of the most popular Minecraft myths that gradually became an ARG was Herobrine. Back in 2010, a player posted his/her experience about starting a new single-player world and spotting a mysterious player-like character through the in-game fog. The character was in Steve's skin, but its eyes were completely white.

This story went so viral that it started a massive wave of discussions and speculation about whether Herobrine was real or not. There were all kinds of pictures, videos, texts, and more about the creature, gradually turning it into an ARG.

Soon after Herobrine, many other ARGs started popping up as spooky blogs on the internet, or creepypastas. Players weaved all kinds of spooky stories about the game. Bugs were termed as paranormal activities, unique mods were used and termed as entities, etc.

After the boom of YouTube, tons of video ARGs started popping up as players would record their gameplay with mysterious events taking place.

These ARGs can also include unknown links that download corrupted Minecraft versions that will run in a weird manner, or simply mysterious mods that add horrific features to the sandbox. Some stories can even have custom world downloads that will have unique pre-built structures, shrines, placed signs, and more.

Since Minecraft can be highly modified, creating these ARGs around the game becomes extremely easy and fun to explore as well.

After exploring the clues, people can work together on Discord servers, forums, and other platforms to virtually solve puzzles if a particular Minecraft ARG has any.

Stories that blur the boundaries between game and reality, such as lost players, corrupted worlds, or mysterious entities like Herobrine, are popular ARGs in Minecraft.

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Edited by Akshat Kabra