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Wishi-san

Re: The Game Has Begun... sort of.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 1:38 pm

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Yeah, yeah, yeah

**Posted:** Fri Sep 03, 2004 3:49 pm

The Watcher · Unfettered Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 493

Yeah, the trailer is really well done.

By the way, what is that music in the trailer? It's beautiful, and I know I've heard it before.

**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:56 pm

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**Posted:** Sat Sep 04, 2004 11:44 pm

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Moonlight Sonata is a personal favorite. When I hear it, I always think about a certain mansion, distant footsteps, and such......

**Posted:** Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:38 am

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**Posted:** Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:30 pm

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**Posted:** Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:53 pm

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Well. i have the hi quality version dl'd on my pc and the bone seems to say 'Robodog'...the girl says Evie Nicks..help me find my daddy..

**Posted:** Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:02 pm

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bachmusic · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Earth

I'm new to ARGs, as I just stumbled across the wikipedia article yesterday. Looking for more info brought me to uf, and searching the forums, I found OC, which looks very fun.

On to business, I've viewed the hi-quality trailer, and I agree that the bone says ROBODOG. Also, "Beta Out" is the best I could come up with for the part after "Camera off". The girl's name sure sounds alot like "Stevie Mae" to me. Actually, it could also be "C.V. May" but that doesn't make sense. Stevie Mae would make sense as the daughter of the scientist "Steven Mae", mentioned on the orbiconcorp.com site.

Maybe its just my system, but hhm's screenshots are coming across as blank to me. I've tried taking my own screenshots, and also get blank images. I've tried simple screenshots of windows media player, screenshoots from Gimp, using winamp as the player, and importing the trailer to windows movie maker and taking screenshots. Nothing seems to work. But at least I can see the images clearly.

The two scenes after the "Orbicon Maldives Ground Base" sign are 3d renderings of what appear to be the ground base, including the space elevator (artists concepts?). These are followed by some more images of the car ascending the cable in various poses, and finally by the protesters mentioned earlier.

I haven't heard anyone mention this, and I doubt its significant, but just in case: Moonlight Sonata has a mistake in it. There's an extra note inserted right around time 2:22. For those with access to a score, its an A (below middle C) inserted between beats 1 and 2 of m.29, I believe.

I'll try naming the rock in a day or two, and explore the website some more as well. Speaking of naming rocks, the asteroid shown in the trailer is named Gaspra.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 3:05 am

Giskard

Hi bachmusic, welcome to uF!

Thanks for the additions made above. HHM's screenshots are indeed blank, heh, funny-looking though Smile

I'm not sure if you can capturestuff off video by making a screenshot of mediaplayer... it usually does not work.

About the asteroid being named Gaspra, I wonder if that might be what the Name that Rock compo is all about... (according to the news section says it will all be explained later, would be very funny if we all tried making up silly names for an asteroid while in fact they are after the name of an existing one)

You should try entering it in the compo if you are ok with wasting an opportunity to enter something hilarious Very Happy

**Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 6:37 am

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well crap that's odd...

They looked okay when I saved them...

Dunno

All I was doing was hitting "print screen" and then pasted into paint... Usually that works.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 10:50 am

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statingfrequency · Boot Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 12

If you're using windows media player to play it, go into options and turn hardware acceleration all the way down, and then take your screenshots. Also many media players have an option for capturing the frame.

**Posted:** Thu Jul 28, 2005 2:43 pm

bachmusic · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Earth

Okay, I did as statingfrequency suggested, and I think I finally got a good result. I included a readme file with some commentary on each image.

**Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:00 am

bachmusic · Greenhorn Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Earth

At the risk of over-analyzing a trailer which may be insignificant...

Did anyone notice anything else odd about the Maldives Ground Base photo? Like the fact that the girl in it seems to be dressed pretty warmly for a tropical island? Googled for Maldives climate, and found that average temperature is in the 80-85 Farenheit range all year long. Coldest temp ever recorded there was 63 F, and the warmest was 98 F. Not the kind of place for a long-sleeved flanel jacket and jeans. Also the terrain doesn't look all that tropical. The fact that there are no full-size trees in the photo make me wonder if it is somewhere above the treeline. Also, the arrowhead sign makes me think of Native American Indians or US National Parks. It certainly doesn't look like the Maldives, though. I vote for either Oklahoma (because of the Native American culture there) or for the Rocky Mountains.

Could the 9 be a Highway or Route number? (Or a campsite number?) It just occured to me that if it were a road number, the resulting road might be associated somehow with the "road to the stars".

**Posted:** Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:38 pm

Wainamoinen

The trailer on http://www.orbitalcolony.com/trailer.htm
has never worked for me(I use a Mac)... I swear someone posted a version that worked for Mac users months ago but I can't find the post in the search.

Does anyone know where I can find a version of the trailer that will work?

**Posted:** Mon Aug 01, 2005 3:29 am