WALKER CREEK
Walker Creek was an immersive interactive fiction webseries (Alternate Reality Game) created by Alex Hera consisting of over 100 videos, 7 websites, and several interactive elements across social media and email. After its completion, it was released as a feature film, and a feature-length documentary about its production was created.
Walker Creek, WA is a small town with a dark secret: a hidden society of parasitic aliens taking over human bodies and turning them into shapeshifting creatures known as The Hosted. On October 24, 2020, Daniel Shephard received a box of VHS tapes from his recently deceased father, George Shephard, with a letter telling him to find the truth. These VHS tapes (circa 1989) contained evidence of the infestation in Walker Creek, and chronicled the actions of the rebellion trying to stop them. Daniel realized that he had to find the truth behind his hometown, discover how to stop the Hosted, and figure out how his father was involved.
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EXPLORING WALKER CREEK
As Daniel continued his journey into the VHS tapes, he uncovered more than he ever could have imagined and recruited allies along the way, including the untrustworthy but useful rebel Host, Adam, and Daniel's old friend, Matt Seakins, who still lived in Walker Creek.
While Daniel investigated from the sidelines, Matt searched across Walker Creek in the hopes of finding information and a way into the Hosted's underground base, The Home. However, their investigation did not go unnoticed. Eventually, the leaders of the Hosted, known as The Tour Guide and The Speaker, discovered the plot, and Daniel was forced to return to Walker Creek to face them, and the truth about his father...
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INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS
Walker Creek was an immersive, found footage webseries, filmed and edited in the style of live broadcasts and in-world cameras; the entire project was presented as if it was a true story. The YouTube channels that host the series were managed by characters in the story, who each had social media and email accounts which could be contacted.
Additionally, Walker Creek had many in-universe websites that could be accessed, including three blogs, a town website, and four unlockable websites containing large databases of text, media, and messages. These websites often contained hidden puzzles and codes to be completed to unlock further content. There were also two phone numbers with answering machines, and there was a live segment once per month in which viewers could call in and talk to one of the characters, Adam.
Walker Creek accrued over 100 active players.
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