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[Nighthawk]

I've directly contacted the artist that did the images posted related to Alpha Omega earlier this year. I wanted to do that anyway - I do have a software development shop and I need good artists - but I figured I'd ask about MSL.

His partial response...

[Whitenoise]

hm interesting find. Has any one found anything about mindstorm labs that dates from 2006 back? The earliest ive been able to find is a single post dated back in january by an artist who didnt work for mindstorm labs but had random concept art that he made for them.

Edit: think who ever is behind this arg has been planning it for a while? Also nice blog... it made my feed list.

[brimstoner]

Again I want to point out the obvious. First if you spend your days looking for fish, you see fish everywhere. Seriously, try it some time. I am sure Mindstorm labs is thankful for the exposure and thus I have no problem with you all promoting it so fervently. I would like to point out once again that this is very very obviously not related. Mindstorm did attend a convention, they are attending GenCon for the release of a game. There are (as previously pointed out) tons of press releases on all kinds of independent sites about this game. Yes they do pull press releases from a general pool, but posting fake news without letting the company know you are doing it is really really bad business practice (my grandfather owns a newspaper). Anyway continue to doubt and speculate as you will, I will be at Gencon and will be stopping my Mindstorm to discuss the free publicity they are recieving for what looks to be an ok game, but not related to this ARG in any way. I just want all you new folks who flocked here for this to take a step back and smell the fishies.

[Whitenoise]

[Nighthawk]

"smell the fishies"?!?

OK then... Well, we'll see what more is provided on 8/1.

[pondrthis]

I searched for everything from tomm to tomm[ b]SPLAT[ /b]mindstormlabs.com and nothing came up, but if I'm being troutly to the limit please go ahead and give me a heaping helping.

Other forums have noted the following in the "The Open Press" report on A/O published on Jun 1st (This is before EHWR.com if I'm not mistaken, though I'm not 100%.):

[brimstoner]

[theonetruebix]

[Nighthawk]

Sorry, I stand corrected.

[Whitenoise]

[brimstoner]

[Whitenoise]

[quote="brimstoner]
Actually in this I have experience. Quite often smaller games will just be built using a local gaming group for testing, sometimes branching out into a few people they know in the industry. For instance I have tested for White Wolf and Margaret Weiss productions and in the case of White Wolf (the big company) there was no process for applying to test, they just selected people from their fan club or convention running staff. In the case of MWP, we tested Serenity and it wasnt even known til just before release. This is due to NDA mostly, especially from smaller companies since with no clout that product idea can be stolen in a hearbeat. I have done lots of Video game beta testing too, and some for Microsoft. I can tell you for sure that the game I have an NDA for right now, you have never heard of. Just because there is no public press release or call for testers doesnt mean the company is not legit. Even Kenzer keeps its games close until nearer to release, they dont hire testers they just play with friends or a few NDA guys.[/quote]

Interesting and all but I would like to know where the first apperance of mindstorm labs was-- it would help clear up how much further the Ethan Haas game will go if it turns out that mindstorm is legit and they are the puppetmasters.

[Nighthawk]

[brimstoner]

edit : posts gone crazy.. please to ignore this

[theonetruebix]