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[molecularr]

ARGcheology

[vpisteve]

In case you hadn't seen it yet, www.arghive.com has links to archives of Lockjaw, Metacortechs, The Beast and I Love Bees.

In addition, there were pretty complete guides to The Beast and Lockjaw, along with a nice new book about the player experience from Metacortechs.

A word of advice: Use these raw materials in your research as opposed to compilations from other sources, as those have shown a tendency to be inaccurate and incomplete, and these examples I've given are a true snapshot of things as they were during the games.

[imbri]

Last Call Poker has a great archive of the story and such listed under the muck.

[konamouse]

In the case of Urban Hunt, I would suggest contacting the main PM directly - Dave Szulborski (aka cabalagent in UF). He might have some archives.

Catching the Wish only recently finished and while the main sites all changed to their "pre-wish" look, he will probably have the game versions available as well.

[molecularr]

Thanks! So it looks like there is some stuff out there. And I can find bits and pieces with the wayback machine.

I'm not sure what you mean though, steve, about raw materials. I mean, any kind of summary is necessarily a contextualized, homogenized, condensed version of what actually happened, no matter how thorough it is, right? I guess that's all we have, though. The rawer the better.

Also, what do incomplete compilations are you referring to? Like wikipedia articles that more or less skim the surface?

And konamouse, that's a good idea. I'm trying to avoid that if all possible (I'm sure Dave's a busy guy), but I haven't ruled it out. I just finished his book, so part of my current motivation to find Urban Hunt material is so I can see some of the examples he writes about.

[vpisteve]

Yeah, I guess what I mean by 'raw materials' is that you could, if you want, go through, say, the Beast Guide and then read through the corresponding posts in the Cloudmakers Yahoo Group.

The good thing with the stuff on Cloudmakers is that they've lovingly re-hosted all of the sites from the game, and most of the links in the Guide still work. Combine this with the Cloudmaker player posts (if you have lots of time) and what you get is a real blow-by-blow account of how the game played.