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[TRAILHEAD] International Intelligence Agency (IIA)
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QBKooky
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[TRAILHEAD] International Intelligence Agency (IIA)
Slightly less secretive than Neurocam?

A man named Mike Curry posted the following trailhead to his upcoming game, a "real life multi-player spy game" called the International Intelligence Agency, to the site Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com):

http://labs.blue74.com/

Basically, he asks for your info (name, address, and hobbies) and for $5 to defray the cost of postage. Here's the thread in which he posted the link, and also answers a few questions from other hacker news members. He says, 'The idea came out of a "What would be fun, get people exercise, and allow us to interact with others, make use of our hobbies - and add excitement to our lives?'" When one user suggested it was just a pyramid scheme chain letter, Mike (username: captaincrunch) responded "The only assurance I can give to you, that this is my creation, and like all things, you will be risking your $5.00. This may not be for everyone, but if it does sound interesting, try it."

I also found this press release for the game, which claimed it "sold tens of thousands of memberships in the first 48 hours of its release, making it the fastest-selling ARG game of all time." Also a different description from the press release: "The IIA (International Intelligence Agency) is a real life multi-player game that gives players a real life, real feel, "off computer" role-playing game. Players don't know about the actual game play, until they are engaged in the actual game."

It sounds very much in the vein of Neurocam (optional real-life missions), a connection already pointed out in the hacker news discussion. It could amount to nothing, but hey, I figured it was worth $5 to try it and see, and thought other unfictioners might as well. Smile
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The Core
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I'm a little skeptical about it, especially finding this post on UF: http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=801108

I'm not sure I'm completely happy paying for this. But really, it's your own choice in the end. Let us know how it turns out Smile

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notgordian
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My skepticism comes more from the press release's claim of tens of thousands of memberships in 48 hours -- Ycombinator gets a lot of traffic, but I don't think it gets enough to generate that high a conversion rate.

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OBT
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I'm all for spy games, but paying money to join and to complete missions I'm not so keen on doing. I'm going to wait and see what people who have already joined say.

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QBKooky
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Skepticism echoed! Smile I already coughed up my $5 just for the heck of it, and will make sure to keep you guys posted if anything interesting comes of it.
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demonpunk
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Eh what the hell.I'm in.
I was always interested in neurocam and really regretted not being able to jump into that.
Besides what"s the worst that could happen?You lose $5 and possibly all your info to the beast that is the internet Twisted Evil
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emato
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I'm in

Why not? My info is already all over the web from other 'games'.

Only thing -- usually 'we' get paid for info instead of 'us' paying to play to give info! Shocked

At any rate - I'm going for it ---

If anyone wants, I'll keep a log/blog/thread ....

/emato
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snorkle256
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I've been wondering what to do with some $$ stuck in paypal. I'll bite. I like getting mail.

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Angelus78
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I'm curious. Very Happy
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Stiffy77
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I sent my $5 m/o and a letter earlier this week and received an email today confirming that they got it.
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koichimal
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Isent my $5 through paypal and realized that my main email wasn't attached to it. Shot the guy an email and got a response within the hour. He's watching this like a hawk...

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Lyoko is Cool
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Well, that latest reply has me more interested. seems like something will happen March 14th as well, the UD: stamp is Unix time for March 14th 00:00:00 EDT

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Angelus78
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well I just got an encoded email from a:

agentservicesSPLATiiaarg.com

Which decoded goes:(I almost mistook it for spam)

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- First contact -



- CLASSIFIED -

UD: 1297612822

This transmission is to confirm your IIA membership has been approved by the governing bodies and inform you of upcoming changes within the IIA.

Shortly from now you will be contacted and requested to fill out a profile outlining various key pieces of information to ensure the IIA has the ability to contact, inform and reward you. Using the information outlined in our next transmission you will also be able to update previously provided information and create your call-name.

Please be reminded that the IIA will never share your personal information other than your call-name with anyone, including other IIA members. Further more you should not reveal your identity to any friends or family members unless you feel their skills would be of benefit to the IIA.

- GreenGerbil [02-13-2011]

- CLASSIFIED -

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QBKooky
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I got that message, too, and in the "To:" field of the message was a huge chunk of maybe 50 people's email addresses. Trying to stay optimistic (that seems a bit of a rookie mistake to make, no? Unless it was intentional...). This should be interesting! Smile
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demonpunk
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Well i hope they're sending them in blocks of 50 or something cuz i didn't get a damn thing in response except my $5 bucks taken Evil or Very Mad
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