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[psygene]

The AKQA copy is no longer up. Behind the curtains indeed.

[Urk]

[killrogg]

Avery Fane

[tsondie21]

[irasel]

[atdt1991]

[Grifter_7]

Ok.. Finally all caught up from last night.. it only took me 4 hours of reading...

I did not see it mentioned, but has anyone tried to overlay the Glyph on top of the background image from 206.16.223.65?

I think that it might match up if the glyph were rotated roughly 90 degrees counterclockwise. Perhaps this is what is meant by "Rotate Transition Point"? Maybe as the timer gets closer to 0, the image continues to rotate and become clearer? Do we have a background image to compare from when the message changed?





Edit: Found a better Glyph on thebruce's wiki.

[Tarrsk]

Nah, I think the potential of another ILB-quality ARG of this size is still there. Remember that ILB itself was the spiritual successor to the Beast, the ARG that started it all.

However, the feeling I'm getting (and I must emphasize that this is just a feeling, based on the scanty information we have) is that some of the crucial elements that the 42 folks bring to the table aren't present in the development of the current ARG. ILB succeeded because it had a team that was invested in the game for its own sake, and which had the ambition to aim for the sky, grounded by the talent and experience to always keep the situation under control, and to roll with the punches when the players did something truly unexpected.

Furthermore, there was a clear sense that the PMs respected their player base- and this is where I think Jane's role in ILB was invaluable. She brought the avant-garde into the game design, understanding that the strength of community gaming is in the ridiculous intelligence we can bring to bear as a cooperative hive mind, and that this sets the genre apart from any other form of gaming previously created.

I'm not really feeling the presence of these elements in the current ARG (although the SOTA stuff has a lot of potential). Most of what has been confirmed to be directly ingame was found through fairly mundane means- the URL on a newspaper ad, the IP address "hidden" in a flash animation. The things we've uncovered using more advanced means perfected in previous ARGs, we weren't supposed to find, at least yet.

Again, this is not to bash the PMs, and I'm definitely willing to see where the rabbit hole leads. But between the lack of ambition in the game design and storytelling, and the clear underestimation of the speed and intellect of the player community, the PMs really need to get their asses in gear if they want this to be remembered as more than the "Ewok Adventures" to ILB's "Empire Strikes Back."

Anyway, sorry for the thread hijack. Back to the subject at hand!

[Transtar]

About the Avery Fane myspace blog:

Just was lookign on there and noticed a new post, labeled "I'm not your messiah" and it had a picture of a complex crop circle.

After doing a small amout of digging the pic came from http://www.zetetique.ldh.org/gogogrammes.html

the website is in french and so vast that it would greatly suprise me if that was in game too.

So I think that might be a strike against the validity of that blog to the game.

EDIT: clarification

[psygene]

[catherwood-offline]

japanese

[tsondie21]

I think we should try figuring out what is going to happen on midnight of the 21st.

Someone said thats a new moon, but this morning at 3 13 am was the new moon.

Finding out what the countdown is for would be key, lets get refocused

[Ma1agate]

French

[tsondie21]

french emails?

[rpepper]

Re: Avery Fane