Return to Unfiction unforum
 a.r.g.b.b 
FAQ FAQ   Search Search 
 
Welcome!
New users, PLEASE read these forum guidelines. New posters, SEARCH before posting and read these rules before posting your killer new campaign. New players may also wish to peruse the ARG Player Tutorial.

All users must abide by the Terms of Service.
Website Restoration Project
This archiving project is a collaboration between Unfiction and Sean Stacey (SpaceBass), Brian Enigma (BrianEnigma), and Laura E. Hall (lehall) with
the Center for Immersive Arts.
Announcements
This is a static snapshot of the
Unfiction forums, as of
July 23, 2017.
This site is intended as an archive to chronicle the history of Alternate Reality Games.
  

The time now is Thu Nov 21, 2024 12:37 pm
All times are UTC - 4 (DST in action)		 View posts in this forum since last visit
View unanswered posts in this forum
Calendar
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: Cloverfield (1-18-08) » Cloverfield: General / Updates
[SPEC][NEW?] Bold Futura Website Open
View previous topicView next topic
Page 9 of 16 [226 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, ..., 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, ..., 14, 15, 16  Next
Author Message
hmghosthoost
Decorated

Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Posts: 199
Location: Ft Lauderdale FL
Arkaham wrote:
[Sarcasm]Ok, you're right. Lets all stop posting and watch the show quietly in our corners. No need to analize things, no need to research. So what will we discuss here? Should we talk about Lost? Nah, better if we all just stop posting completely. [/Sarcasm]


**soothingly massages Arkaham's shoulders and offers green tea**
_________________
If I am not going to kill myself, I have to go on. There is only one thing I need from anyone, and that is respect; and anyone who cannot give it to me has no place in my life.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:13 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Kraker
Unfettered

Joined: 29 Jul 2007
Posts: 749
hmghosthoost wrote:
Arkaham wrote:
[Sarcasm]Ok, you're right. Lets all stop posting and watch the show quietly in our corners. No need to analize things, no need to research. So what will we discuss here? Should we talk about Lost? Nah, better if we all just stop posting completely. [/Sarcasm]


**soothingly massages Arkaham's shoulders and offers green tea**


Some could interpret that in other ways than it was intended to mean Cool

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:14 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
hmghosthoost
Decorated

Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Posts: 199
Location: Ft Lauderdale FL
Kraker wrote:
hmghosthoost wrote:
Arkaham wrote:
[Sarcasm]Ok, you're right. Lets all stop posting and watch the show quietly in our corners. No need to analize things, no need to research. So what will we discuss here? Should we talk about Lost? Nah, better if we all just stop posting completely. [/Sarcasm]


**soothingly massages Arkaham's shoulders and offers green tea**


Some could interpret that in other ways than it was intended to mean Cool


Some could have meant it in ways other than what it would appear to have been intended Cool
_________________
If I am not going to kill myself, I have to go on. There is only one thing I need from anyone, and that is respect; and anyone who cannot give it to me has no place in my life.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:16 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
hmghosthoost
Decorated

Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Posts: 199
Location: Ft Lauderdale FL

 		come on I'm kidding
_________________
If I am not going to kill myself, I have to go on. There is only one thing I need from anyone, and that is respect; and anyone who cannot give it to me has no place in my life.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:37 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
brettoniasam
Unfettered


Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Posts: 340
Helo wrote:

I know, heaven forbid Paramount from marketing a movie the way they want to market it without the approval of the UnFiction nerds. Paramount could have easily tossed a bunch of marketing dollars the way of this movie and left all of your Warcraft and Dungeons & Dragons nerds in the depths of your moms basements. Instead, they took the time to do something cool and create an interactive marketing experience.

But, apparently they forgot to check with UnFiction about what they should do and how they should do it. The multi-million dollar corporation didn't check with dinky little UnFiction. Whoops! I guess they didn't realize that the world revolves around a collective of nerds talking smack online.

News flash: Paramount can, and will, do what they want. It's not up to UnFiction. You guys should be happy enough that they went along with your little ARG world instead of flooding the airwaves with commercials. They're the ones taking the chance of relying on nerd hype versus proven marketing strategies.

Good job in biting the hand that feeds you, guys.


Good job on completely missing the boat there, Helo. Shifty Eyes

Since you apparently don't realize it: Abrams is DELIBERATELY STEERING CLEAR OF TRADITIONAL ADVERTISING FOR THIS MOVIE.

Say it with me: That's...the...whole...point.

By dodging Madison Avenue (you know, the big advertising corporations that charge everyone -- including Hollywood -- shitloads of cash to sell their wares on television and elsewhere), Abrams is charting new territory by creating a movie whose ad campaign is tied up entirely in viral websites and ARGs at virtually no cost to him or the studio.

Get the picture? No Madison Avenue = studio saves a LOT of bucks in marketing = mo' profits for the studio and JJ = mo' money, mo' money, MO' MONEY.

So. In order for the viral campaign and/or ARG to work, JJ *has* to rely on the fans to be (a) interested enough and (b) informed enough and (c) intelligent enough to keep up.

IOW: JJ Abrams and Paramount NEED "us Unfiction nerds" (and IMDB, and AICN, and CloverfieldClues, and others) to play the game in order for the non-commercial experiment to work.

Cappice?

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:44 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
CloverfieldClues.com
Entrenched


Joined: 03 Aug 2007
Posts: 757
Euchre wrote:
CloverfieldClues.com wrote:
There was a spelling error on the front page! It said "LASTEST PROJECTS" instead of "LATEST PROJECTS" (either they are watching this forum or they emailed me about this), AND they fixed it on the weekend?!?!

Uh, "they emailed me about this"?
Now that is an odd slip of the tongue!
Twisted Evil


No, it not what you are implying Smile

Someone had emailed me this morning telling me the site had launched, and wanted to know If I thought it was OOG, and I mentioned the spelling error. This was before I came here and mentioned it.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:10 pm
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
hmghosthoost
Decorated

Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Posts: 199
Location: Ft Lauderdale FL

 		Ok so here's another one that I don't know whether it's been talked about before, so I'm posting it here...


Look at the people in the back row. What they are doing is called "Ameslan" - commonly called "American Sign Language".

Anyone know sign language that can read the sentence here?
There are very easily identifiable individual letters and numbers in there BUT several of them are actual word signs - an entire word in one sign. There has got to be a clue in this.





_________________
If I am not going to kill myself, I have to go on. There is only one thing I need from anyone, and that is respect; and anyone who cannot give it to me has no place in my life.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:38 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Status
Veteran


Joined: 18 Oct 2007
Posts: 123
Location: Valley of the Sun

 		Since hmghosthoost brought up Slusho it's a good opportunity to draw a parallel. Remember when Slusho first went up and how a lot of the site didn't work properly? Maybe it's the same with BF. It seems that most of the viral for the movie has been sort of flying by the seat of their pants, somewhat disorganized.
_________________
I have no clue what I'm doing...

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:50 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
hmghosthoost
Decorated

Joined: 13 Oct 2007
Posts: 199
Location: Ft Lauderdale FL
Status wrote:
Since hmghosthoost brought up Slusho it's a good opportunity to draw a parallel. Remember when Slusho first went up and how a lot of the site didn't work properly? Maybe it's the same with BF. It seems that most of the viral for the movie has been sort of flying by the seat of their pants, somewhat disorganized.


I have to agree. For all the clues we've found, not one of them seems to have any real SOLID relivence to the movie itself, with the exception of maybe the teddy bear.

6
cheese
blue mitten
hammer
pig
duck
horse
slusho
Tagruato
Bold Futura
Japan
Oil
Bio genetics
Deep sea experiments
space exploration
weapons manufacturing
_________________
If I am not going to kill myself, I have to go on. There is only one thing I need from anyone, and that is respect; and anyone who cannot give it to me has no place in my life.

PostPosted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 11:58 pm
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
Euchre
uF Game Warden


Joined: 29 Aug 2007
Posts: 3342
CloverfieldClues.com wrote:
Euchre wrote:
CloverfieldClues.com wrote:
There was a spelling error on the front page! It said "LASTEST PROJECTS" instead of "LATEST PROJECTS" (either they are watching this forum or they emailed me about this), AND they fixed it on the weekend?!?!

Uh, "they emailed me about this"?
Now that is an odd slip of the tongue!
Twisted Evil


No, it not what you are implying Smile

Someone had emailed me this morning telling me the site had launched, and wanted to know If I thought it was OOG, and I mentioned the spelling error. This was before I came here and mentioned it.

Nice recovery.
Err...
I mean OK, that clears it up. Laughing

More seriously, gamejackers seem to come largely in two types:
1. those that actually like the game but want to draw attention to themselves
2. those that hate the game, and want to have fun at the expense of the players
Every time people blindly embrace these sites, they nurture both kinds of gamejacker. Healthy skepticism can out the first type in a constructive way, and foil the second type completely. Some of the first type are trying to have fun and enjoy the reveal - I'd think if this was you CC, you'd be like that. This is a really heavily detailed site, which makes me wonder who is really doing it. My suspicions at this point lean towards the second type though.
_________________
Any sufficiently plausible fiction is indistinguishable from reality.
Any sufficiently twisted reality is indistinguishable from fiction.
Welcome to the new world of entertainment.
ŠEuchre 2007

PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:21 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 4310
Location: Des Moines, IA

 		Site is still up, but the Flash on the page is currently inaccessible.

Speaking of the Flash, before the spelling correction it was 'bold.swf' but after the correction it is now 'lpur6465zbn75621.swf'. The site also doesn't follow the convention of the others in that all SWFs on the known sites live in a 'swf' directory (slusho.jp/swf, tagruato.jp/swf). Here, the SWF is in the directory 'xbzk4417zfqr2876'. Randomly generated file and folder names.

Doing a 'View Source' on the page also shows a bunch of javascript currently generating the page (document.write), again very different than the known sites.

Nothing damning, just more circumstantial.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:50 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
clownnation
Decorated

Joined: 04 Sep 2007
Posts: 160

 		hmghosthoost

The theory about sign language was brought up the day that part of SLUSHO! was open. It was looked at heavily. Although some of it does look like sign language, no one here was able to figure it out yet, including me who knows a bit of sign language. But feel free to look into it more. It's just it was heavily researched already.

Use the (Search) button please, and make sure you arent reposting old theories or that you arent putting them on the wrong thread.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:30 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
buildingblock
Veteran

Joined: 04 Oct 2007
Posts: 75

 		Euchre, are you implying that dennis hoaxed this? lol of not let me know... sick of trying to decode messages enrypted with sarcasm Laughing
_________________
what did one snowman say to the other snowman? "You'll do.... I'm taking your boat and legging it!" Laughing

PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:01 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
MrToasty
I Have 100 Cats and Smell of Wee


Joined: 03 Aug 2004
Posts: 4310
Location: Des Moines, IA

 		Now the flash version of the site is gone altogether and it's back to the original "Please Pardon Our Disarray" version.

PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:49 am
 View user's profile
 Back to top 
bryanflurry
Unfettered


Joined: 02 Aug 2007
Posts: 477
Location: Mississauga, Canada

 		Oh and another one, thought it might be worth mentioning, I found this in bold.swf:


Image_38.png = lorem ipsum dolor


Image_41.png = 3D

OOPS! Smile
Whoever made this forgot to remove these from the flash library of the swf.
Lorem ipsum dolor is usually present in templates right? it acts as a text filler

[edit]
Added:
Okay I found the template:
http://www.dynamicfactory.us/004/3Dtech/3Dtech.htm
the name of the template is 3Dtech.
and this
http://www.dynamicfactory.us/004/3Drobot/3Drobot.htm
3Drobot template

PostPosted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 7:00 am
 View user's profile Visit poster's website
 Back to top 
Display posts from previous:   Sort by:   
Page 9 of 16 [226 Posts]   Goto page: Previous 1, 2, 3, ..., 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, ..., 14, 15, 16  Next
View previous topicView next topic
 Forum index » Archive » Archive: Cloverfield (1-18-08) » Cloverfield: General / Updates
Jump to:  


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
You cannot attach files in this forum
You can download files in this forum
You cannot post calendar events in this forum



Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group