An Experience

An Experience

An Experience is an alternate reality game about the Internet achieving sentience.

What is An Experience?
An Experience is a Chrome extension that tells a story through augmented layers on top of web pages. It alters websites with overlays, additional content, and replaces banner ads to create a unique narrative experience.
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Stats
Users: 38 ▼ -5
Rating: 5.00 (6)
Version: 0.0.91 (Last updated: 2022-08-10)
Creation date: 2018-09-11
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • tts
  • tabs
  • storage
Size: 1.97M
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Summary

You will be told a story gradually as you browse the web and encounter and interact with different characters through an augmented layer on top of the pages you normally visit.

Ways in which websites will be altered include overlays on top of the page, additional content added to certain pages, and replacing the content of banner ads with material from the story.

This extension will occasionally surprise you, and occasionally do things you haven't seen it do before. If such surprises would be unwelcome, the extension can easily be turned off and on by pressing on its icon on the upper left corner of your chrome window.

None of your data or records of any of your actions within the game will ever be sent off of your computer.


An Experience is made and maintained by Todd Anderson for his MFA Thesis in Digital Language Arts at Brown University.

This extension aims to explore chrome extensions as a creative form, and to test their capacity for gameplay and narrative. It is not, like many other chrome extensions, a simple tool to accomplish a simple task, but it is designed to build a single coherent world and to tell a story within that world. I hope you enjoy it.

User reviews
Definetly very late but I recently just found this, and im enjoying it so far:) but it says "You know...I've read a lot of stuff but I have a hard time telling what's good and what's not. Maybe you could teach me? I've modified your browser so that whenever you select some text, you can right-click to teach it to me. Can I show you?" and i agreed, then it brings me to a site that says "Sorry, that poem or audio file is currently unavailable." it was archived so i was able to read the poem but it keeps saying that over and over again.
by Underlying Tone Underlying Tone, 2022-05-22

I really love the extension and am having tons of fun but I think I'm experience a glitch. The kite keepings telling me that it's modified my browser so that I can teach it text, but when I follow it to the kite poem and right click, I don't see the option to teach it the text. Am I missing something?
by Miranda Rife Miranda Rife, 2017-07-11
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Safety
Risk impact

An Experience may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

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