The Art of the Heist: General/Updates-New

AotH Awards and Follow-up

rose@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 06:42:02 +0000

I thought everyone might like to know that the Art of the Heist has won several awards at the Mixx Conference and Awards meeting, including the coveted "Best in Show" award. I Love Bees , called the Halo 2 viral campaign at the show, was also recognized in the Viral/Word Of Mouth/Peer-to-Peer Marketing category, for which AotH took second place. AotH also won under Online Integration and a couple of other categories too.

McKinney-Silver has put together a nice site explaining the campaign and presenting its timeline. Check it out here:

http://www.mckinney-silver.com/A3_H3ist/

Nice recognition for the AotH team and great news for ARGs as a whole.

HitsHerMark

Scott@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:48:59 +0000

I think HitsHerMark actually is in fFact really dead this time! Has uhm, anyone seen her? or, on a slightly more selfish note, seen their swag? I PMed her, offering to cover a bunch of postage, but she's sort of MIA. poor dear .. maybe Gunter is back fFrom the grave and killed her but good this time!

Post-Game PM Chat

ArAcHnAdZ@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:54:47 +0000

We're finalizing the details for an upcoming post-game chat with the H3ist PMs, and hopefully a few of the actors as well. Watch this thread for developments.

Party Photos

ArAcHnAdZ@forums.unfiction.com — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:41:50 +0000

From Kane

Hello Everyone and Thanks

Will Star@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 11 Jul 2005 19:21:12 +0000

Whats up everyone, It's your favorite DJ, Will Star. I want to thank everyone for their interest in my music, I had no idea what I was getting into when I started out this project. As some of you may know, I created a lot of the music for this project, including all of ian's music, and works in progress, and a few other clips here and there. If you, or anyone else you know needs original music for any type of project (flim, tv, radio, website, scratches) feel free to contact me at Will(at sign)willstar.tv (damn spambots).

I've updated my website today, including more music clips in the Music section, so check it out http://www.willstar.tv

I look forward to DJing for ARG fest later this month, it should be a great time, and fun to meet more of the players.

Favourite Heist moment?

rose@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 06 Jul 2005 23:22:37 +0000

Nisha belting Emile with his laptop has to be a serious contender, but my own personal favourite was Jason at the NYC heist, trying to maintain some decorum as a TV presenter while looking for the evasive SD card: "I'm here inside the Audi A3... I don't know where the damn ****ing thing is!!"

Sheer comedy genius. Sir, I salute you :)

The overall story

HaxanMike@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 06:50:09 +0000

I want to start a thread which tries to piece together what the overall story was.
I'm not sure I have a very clear idea but I'll post my thoughts, then through a process of heaping scorn on my naivety, the truth might emerge.

Emile hated Virgil and decided that the best way to hurt him was through Nisha. So Emile hires Gunter to plan an art heist and makes sure that news of it leaks to LRR.
As the LRR investigation goes on, Emile ups the temperature with blackmail, goons and murder.
Emile tries to set-up Virgil as the evil mastermind behind all of this, primarily in the eyes of Nisha.
Emile succeeds in turning Nisha against Virgil and making Virgil look sad and deluded but appears to have confessed publicly to several murders.

Epilogue
Emile (and the goons) go to jail.
Virgil goes to the madhouse.
Nisha and Ian rekindle their love and get married in a castle in Austria with Will Star as bestman / DJ.

A problem with this account is that it leaves the whole 'art heist' storyline and associated SD card cracking as a bit of an irrelevance.

Thoughts?

[PRESS] Gamasutra wrap-up

skilletaudio@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 11:56:02 +0000

Thought you Heisties might appreciate this:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=5828

Congrats on a good game, you all.

[UPDATE] June 29 (The BIG one!)

BottomlessPitMan-nli@forums.unfiction.com — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:16:39 +0000

Lovely morning this.

We get a few emails from some retrievers , and our good friend worry.

It seems HitsHerMark is..... a bit indisposed

[UPDATE] June 30 - Aftermath

Ehsan@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 21:57:19 +0000

The webcast is up with some commentary from Todd on SA3.com

http://www.stolena3.com/archives/001456.html

Easter Egg Links

johnny5@forums.unfiction.com — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:08:38 +0000

1:"hi"
2:";)"
3:"ow"
4:"?!"
5:"//"
6:"@~"
7."VT"[/URL]
8."endgame"

Story Spec

SMG3er@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:05:51 +0000

Ok, so we have all this new stuff. What does it all mean?

My favorite idea, which is not necessarily my best, is: instead of the heist being a promotional cover for the Nisha Chronicles or being the ouroborus game, the heist is the real focus and the game is a cover. It could be a perfect way to deny responsibility if the plot was discovered...

I want to hear some predictions about how this will end! Because at this point almost anything could happen.

[UPDATE] June 28

rowan@forums.unfiction.com — Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:02:54 +0000

New mail from Nisha calling for help from the Coachella 5. (You lucky dog HHM)

And a phone call between Nisha and Ian. Nisha thinks she's found the place the art is beening delivered to and Ian is stalking on Virgil.

[UPDATE] June 27

Diandra@forums.unfiction.com — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 18:21:18 +0000

New emails to Nisha and Ian from lemonwheel, pointing out the email.jpg and truckroute.jpg to Ian and Nisha (respectively). Also, new recorded call on Nisha's site - http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/kramer/kramer.cgi?url=http://iannet.lastresortretrieval.com/nisha/001444.html&mode=nisha_entrypage

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Nisha: This is it... I've got a location. I can be there in... 7 hours.
Ian: (shaky) It's a pretty... shaky set of clues for you to go driving off on.
Nisha: Bay Street, San Diego, I mean it's *enough*. It's... it's the break I've been looking for.
Ian: Yeah, and if you find this place?
Nisha: Then... I'll find some answers... find out who's behind this.
Ian: I just hope those answers don't have loaded guns!
Nisha: I can take care of myself.
Ian: Or at least you think you can.
Nisha: I'll be fine! Now you just sit tight and let me do the dirty work. (sighs) We're close, Ian...
Ian: I know...

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... I live in San Diego, and I can assure you there is NO "Bay Street" here, at least that I can find or that I've ever heard of. So draw your conclusions from that :-)

C

SD-6 card

Tien_Le@forums.unfiction.com — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:53:19 +0000

Nisha got the 6th card . Info on Stolen A3.