Matt Reich Patrick Connolly When first looking at the Aris app and website, we assumed that the app was a bunch of learning games that seemed to be all made and organized by UW-Graduate Students. The majority of the students seemed to be from the UW School of Education’s Games and Learning Society Group. We came across an article called, “2011 ARIS Group Game Jam draws participants worldwide.” In it the author was talking about how this app has attracted people from all over the world to play all the new games. The author mentioned that within the first 50 hours of the app being public, 50 new games were added. After reading this article I was eager to see what about this game makes it so attractive to a wide range of people However, as we spent more and more time on the “ARIS” app, we found it to be very confusing and almost pointless. It took me over ten minutes to figure out how to work the app and even then I wasn’t totally sure about it. Once I began to get my bearings and found the local games, I felt as if they were a waste of time. We were very disappointed after reading all the great reviews and didn’t understand why so many people had been using this app. I am currently sitting on the third floor of college library which is where Matt and I first started using this app. We thought doing the library “quest” could be interesting and useful, so we decided to give it a shot. We spent quite a bit of time walking around floors 1-3 of College Library and didn’t get any useful and interesting information. The game kept just shooting random history facts about College Library and other surrounding areas. We thought it was all quite a waste of time. After discussing the app after doing the Library Quest, Matt and I came to this consensus. We don’t think this app is going to be the next big thing. We don’t think it has enough features to make users not want to stop playing. In conclusion, while we were attempting to play with and enjoy this app, we kept getting bored and would quit out and open Facebook or Snapchat.