post 3: book 1 project: fan experience

Dive into the real experience of the greatest night of Quinten Jacobsen’s life; his night with Margo. As you play this interacting game of chance, sheer luck, and whit you will get the chance to experience a night to remember similar to the night the characters in Paper Towns by John Green had. This hands on game will take you through a wild night based on the cards you draw. You could end up at 711, a park where you find a dead corpse, Jase’s house, or you could lose the one thing in the world that means the most to you. Her. The goal is to get Margo to Sea World but to get there, you must answer mind twisting riddles, put together clues, and be the ultimate sleuth much like Quinten in the book.

In the beginning of the book, Margo and Quentin are nine years old. They go to the park together on a seemingly normal afternoon only to find a man who had shot himself in the head under a tree. When they both see the body, Quentin takes a step back while Margo takes a step forward. This moment defines them as people; Quentin does his best to stray away from adventure and the mysteries in life while Margo wants to delve into the unknown and take anything that might come her way. After that day at the park, Margo and Quinten drift apart and no longer remain friends. As Quentin states, “We’re not friends, we’re neighbors.” Until nine years later. “And so May fifth could’ve been any day—until just before midnight, when Margo Roth Spiegelman slid open my screenless bedroom window for the first time since telling me to close it nine years before.” That one fateful night Margo wants to go on an adventure with Quinten. She wants him to be her driver for the night and also wants him to assist her in getting revenge on all the people who have wronged her. “‘I have eleven things to do tonight, and at least five of them involve a getaway man.”” For Margo, this a marvelous adventure. Nothing out of the ordinary for her. But for Quinten, this is the most rebellious stunt that he has ever pulled. Before, he has had no reason do anything that might get him in trouble with his parents let alone arrested. Quinten steals his mom’s minivan and leaves with Margo, willing to do anything she asks of him. They make dozens of stops at different stores, multiple people’s houses, with an end goal of Sea World. This is where you come in. You personally design a night full of adventure for the two to embark on. You don’t know where you’ll end up or when but you have to go through a series of traps, riddles, and clues to discover a new night of fun and NO FELONIES!! In the game, you could possibly end up buying a giant catfish or maybe something else out of the realm of anything “normal”. The game allows you to see what Quinten had to go through that night and the effort he had to put in to figuring everything out about Margo. Also, if you use the promotion code given when you purchase the game, you could win a free “MISSING: MARGO ROTH SPIEGELMAN” t-shirt. (Design below)

The Paper Towns game was created to uniquely simulate and recreate the night that Quinten and Margo had together while adding Margo’s mind to twist it up a little and make things more interesting. I feel this game will truly allow the fans of this book to experience the night that changed Quinten's life and the way he looked at things. I also think this game will show people who haven't read the book before, how different it is from the other books that John Green has written. I think this game will show that this is not your typical love story or "chick lit" but it also has mystery and adventure and that will help widen the audience to get more people to read it. This game also allows readers to keep the adventure alive even after the book has ended. It could allow them to feel what they felt when they read the book for the first time; anticipation and anxious to see where they'll end up next.