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[tygr20]

In-Game Characters Referencing unFiction

[Lovek]

Re: In-Game Characters Referencing unFiction

[Silent|away]

Well, er, to be fair, I think mentioning UF is basically breaking the fourth wall. It's done for comedy or for dramatic effect. I'd mark it as the same way as "TINAG". Say "This is not a game", and I immeadily scream. Because by saying TINAG, you are admitting it is in fact a game.

I would rather that a PM say this:

[sixsidedsquare]

I've made comments on this in the past and I'll just reiterate my view here again (rewording for the 3rd or 4th time).

Unfiction being Out Of Game just makes things easier on everyone. The logical extension from what anonymousloli was saying, is that if people are collaborating on something ARG-like as if it were real, they would in no way use a public forum. The obvious option is to make a private board somewhere, and only invite people they know and trust. But herein lies the problem, you cut off a huge chunk of your possible audience. No one can just browse the game and see if they want to play, where most games on unfiction get a huge percentage of their audience from.

Being treated as Out Of Game (essentially non-existant for characters) makes unfiction a safe place for players to discuss the game, without making it a closed affair and castrating many of those that might play the game.

[xnbomb]

Running silent

[Rekidk]

I couldn't agree more with sixsidedsquare and xnbomb. Ultimately, having Unfiction as OOG makes the experience more enjoyable for BOTH the players AND the PMs. It really is easier.

BTW, it's not hard for a character to say, "Darnit, I found this website called Unfiction but it won't open in my web browser! Oh well."

[vpisteve]

Let us not forget that there have been many instances of games directly linking back to the player communities who are playing them. If memory serves, The Beast, Lockjaw, Ilovebees and Last Call Poker (and maybe Art of the Heist, I can't remember) all did this. The thinking behind it from a design standpoint has been that this serves to help new players who stumble upon the sites find out what's going on, by directing them to the communities. Admittedly, players can just as easily Google, but hey...

These links have all been pretty subtle, more being like "hey, these folks are on the trail, they may be of help" sort of thing.

[Silent|away]

To be devil's advocate here...and maybe on a tangentical note:

Having an OOG forum where players can discuss about the game and solve puzzles sort of takes away from TINAG. It IS really a game.

To be fair, it's a good thing, because we really don't want a game where players can't tell what's fiction and what's real. Concering the myraid plots that ARGs usually have, if such an ARG would be developed, the PMs would cancel it mid-game due to being thrown in the slammer. But maybe, I want such a game in the future, a game where you don't know if it is in fact a real event, or if it it is fake...at least until the game actually ends and the PMs admit it is all a hoax.

[rowan]

[Silent|away]

In such a game where the goal is to not let on that the game is fake, I am thinking that less lethal plots are used. What about guild drama, where people just vent and scream over loot...but nobody is getting hurt. You aren't going to call '911' over the entire mess, but you may begin to worry about the sanity of everyone involved.

[notgordian]

[rowan]

[Rekidk]

[rose]

vpisteve wrote:

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