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- ↑ Meg Swaine Career Building Through Alternate Reality Gaming New York: Rosen Pub, 2008. p. 7 "the writer, Tracy Reed, adapted the story to the input of the readers, thereby making them contributors to it. Within three months, it was the highest-ranking text segment of AOL"
- ↑ Sausalito Electric Theatre Announces Premiere of Tracy Reed's Interactive Drama "The Koi Pond" Archived 2010-06-07 at the Wayback Machine Sausalito Electric Theatre Company, April 29, 2010. "The interactive piece became the #1-rated special feature on the AOL systems" Accessed April 30, 2010
- ↑ "'The Koi Pond' by Tracy Reed is a completely new kind of Interactive Theatre that takes place on the Net." Archived 2010-06-07 at the Wayback Machine Sausalito Electric Theatre Company, Accessed April 30, 2010