Creator Memoirs

Description
A page for past ARG creators (of long running or completed projects) and veteran community members to share their experience, advice, tips, and thoughts on ARG's. Anything that you feel is important or useful for new creators, say it! This is for personal thoughts and advice so don't be shy.

For formatting, put your name (and project title if you wish) as a heading, and the date of your entry as a subheading. You can create as many subheadings on as many different days as you want, but please do not create more than one heading for yourself.

2/8/22
I spent 14 months, from September 2020 to November 2021, creating an ARG called "Walker Creek". While I was making it, it was simultaneously my favorite and least favorite thing in the entire world. It was so amazing to see audience reactions and interact with players, but it was incredibly stressful to create content. Now to be fair, I created an absurd amount of content - way more than any normal ARG - and I did it completely on my own. But in the end...it was completely worth it. I made over 100 episodes of content by the end, not counting the 7 websites totaling over 1000 pages of content. It is definitely an impressive webseries to put in a portfolio, and it was a ton of fun spending time with my friends and crew while filming content. I learned so much more about filmmaking and unfiction through Walker Creek than any class or other project I've experienced in my life. And on top of the impressive webseries, I was able to re-edit it into a feature film, and make a feature length documentary about the making of the series, and now I've gotten involved in the ARG community and I'm doing so many awesome projects, like assisting with this Archive! I feel like I'm sort of losing the point here but basically - making ARG's is awesome and I love it more than almost anything. But be prepared, because there will also be times where you hate it, and feel incredible stress from creating it. But in my opinion, it's worth it. Good luck!