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[cassandra]

[UPDATE][OOG] Mind Candy Looking for Developer

[spaceXplorer]

Hmmm....i think I may be over-qualified!!

Well, maybe i'll apply for an interview anyway - at least that way I will find out where MCHQ is and put everyone's mind at rest.

[lotusflower]

Heh, I think they'll have that base covered. I imagine you'd be interviewed in a totally seperate location, purely to prevent such opportunisticness.

Yes, I know that's not a real word.

[Salkunh]

[Seej]

Re: [UPDATE][OOG] Mind Candy Looking for Developer

[BrianEnigma]

I'm surprised they are looking to do things in J2SE, as opposed to the J2EE buzzword-compliant bandwagon everyone is jumping on. It's kind of smart, though, as most of the J2EE "enterprise solutions" are processor intensive and/or expensive (albeit easier to maintain in the long run). It always seems the J2SE solutions to slow code is "write it better" and the J2EE solution is "buy more hardware."

If only I lived in London and still wrote Java...

[invfish]

[spugmeistress]

if they make forums and community type stuff tho, won't they be considered quite in game-ish? just cos of the suspension of disbelief stuff they have going on on their website and almost being part of the game even though we know they're behind the curtain n all that. it would seem strange to have an official forum and people to be talking all meta and OOG on it... so i think there will still be a need for the UF forum and for the wiki n primer n stuff, maybe whatever they want to come up with will either be for some kind of ongoing product/whatever after the 'game', or somehow part of the in game story itself?

rach =)

[wintermute_au]

Yeh it wouldn't surprise me at all if they were interested in building an ongoing community around the City and the puzzle solving (there's certainly lots of potential for 'spinoff' stories!) ... and i suppose that would allow for somewhere for in-game characters to interact, whereas Unfiction is much too Meta for their purposes ...

On top of it all of course, they don't necessarily want us creepy ARG types scaring away ppl who may just play casually -- the ARG community tends to dig real deep and spec every passing comment, which is just too much (too much reading / too much time / too confusing) for a more general market

(and my bets are on Mind Candy trying to build a following beyond PPC anyway - hence the "initially ... Perplex City projects")

Edit: just read E3 thread, and noting Jeb's post: my observation isn't so clever anymore

[JebJoya]

Well, we already know there's a PxC computer game in the works (E3)

Jeb

[GuyP]

I'd speculate that if they create forums they'll be entirely OOG, even though they could technically use them in an IG way (without stabbing logic in the face) - I just think it would be an annoyance that would drive a lot of players away. Nonetheless, I'm sure player-created resources will continue to flourish.

Now, I'm reaching a bit here, but the AI game wrap-up by Adrian features a "future things ARGs could do" section that includes some ideas we've already seen. Here's an excerpt regarding forums...