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[INFO] Player resources: AkA - "Tender Geeky Loving Care"
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HitsHerMark
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 		 [INFO] Player resources: AkA - "Tender Geeky Loving Care"
Hey new people! Looky here!
Wiki
As per usual TheBruce has provided us an awesome wiki to try and keep our information organized! You can find it at http://olympics.wikibruce.com/

This includes a Beginners Guide and a timeline of updates also available in RSS feed form! The wiki needs YOU! Register with the wiki and help out! Do it for Ariadne (or the snacky athlete of your choosing)! We can't do this alone!

There's also a page on Language Resources

The Omphputer (AKA - "The Secret Site", "The House of Solomon", "OmphNet")
How does it work? Tail Eater explains it all

uf RSS
You can use this url http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/rss.php?f=237&c=15 in your favorite RSS reader to keep up to date on everything that's happening in ARG: Find the Lost Ring forum.

Chat!
#lostring is the name of our IRC room and HERE is how you can get to it.
While you're there you can learn how to use the uf Web Client
Or you can try Mibbit
Server: radiant.chat-solutions.org:6667
Channel: #lostring
Pick your nickname
No password needed

Cartography
Here is a handy little tool for calculating distance between points on google mas.
Ariock's Omphaloi map on Google Maps!
Eclipseyue's Lost Ring Player Map!
Rogi's Omphalos calculator!

Labyrinths!
- Ingenious instructions on how to construct human sized classical "brain shaped' labyrinths!

Flickr
Many people are uploading their pictures and screenshots to Flickr.com, which is part of Yahoo! networks.

Flickr tags most in use by players are
thelostring
findthelostring

The In-Game character Markus is using
findthelostring
trovularingonperditan

So if you are concerned about keeping your IG and OOG pictures organized, You could keep that in mind if you like.

There's an (OOG) Flickr pool for ARGs in general here. Feel free to join and add your related photos!

Twitter Hashtags!
Our Hashtag is #lostring

Those with Twitter accounts can follow hashtags which will automatically start to follow them as well. Anytime you post a tweet about The Lost Ring, include "#lostring" and it will be indexed by Hashtags.

Whether or not you have a twitter account, you can watch for items hashtagged with #lostring!

Translations
For when you can't find somebody listed in the language list linked above..
Robo-Translated versions of the TA Blogs

NCfriend found this wonderful firefox addon called FoxLingo!

Learn to speak Esperanto with "Muzzy" videos online!
Junesun's Esperanto Cheat Sheat!

Play the Game in Another Language?

We love everybody who comes to play with us here in uF, and we are delighted to play with people whose first language is not english. Please stay! But if you think you would be more comfortable in another language, you have a few choices -

http://forums.findthelostring.com/index.jspa
Our intrepid interdimensional labyrinthletes are chatting in their own languages in the game forums - german, spanish, portuguese, french, chinese, japanese and english.

Other out of game resources not in english:

http://www.argwiki.de/index.php5?title=Find_the_Lost_Ringwww.ARGwiki.de
http://forum.patmo.de/index.php?board=49.0
- wikis and forums in German

[ need to find the link to the esperanto forum that's been mentioned ]
http://groups.google.com/group/tlrp (esperanto discussions)
[other]

[please let us know if you find a community chatting out there in another language - we'll add it to the list!]

Art Resources
- Weezel's 3 Circuit Template (300 dpi JPG)
Flickr Set with Strength symbol badges.

(edited to sticky topic ~ enaxor)
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:37 pm
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ncfriend
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 		hey hits... got your twit today! how awesome to be updated while i was out and about. anymore twitterers on here?

it amazes me that twitter is not exploding moreso in the world of ARGing and there must be something going on that i'm not aware of with facebook if their ceo/founder is the keynote speaker at SxSW.. not that it's "old news" but certainly not worth a keynote spot.

So, back to the topic... twit away!

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Sylvia
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 		I added avantgame to my twitter awhile back, but I haven't been able to follow the game like I would have liked. Anyways this was just posted on http://www.twitter.com/avantgame
Quote:
going to SXSW tomorrow! find me, find some lost ring swag for you!!


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Weezel
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 		Blog translastions
Since each of the characters is going to be running their own blog in their own language, I thought it might be nice to have a quick way to read it in your language.

For game purposes, we might still want to do direct translations on certain posts with a native speaker of the language rather than using an online translator, but this is a start.

Several of the blogs I couldn't find translators back into all the other languages, but if they do get found as a resource, I'll edit this post.

Additionally, the chinese and japanese translations really don't seem to be working well at all. If someone has a better resource let me know.

So these links take you directly to the blog, but translated on the fly, so you get a jist of what's going on:

Ariadne (English) - Ariadne (English)
In english: Link
Auf deutsch: Link
En español: Link
En français: Link
日本語): Link
繁體中文版: Link
Em português: Link

Markus (German) - Markus (Deutsch)
In english: Link
Auf deutsch: Link
En español:
En français: Link
日本語):
繁體中文版:
Em português:

Diego (Spanish) - Diego (Español)
In english: Link
Auf deutsch:
En español: Link
En français: Link
日本語):
繁體中文版:
Em português:

Lucie (French) - Lucie (Français)
In english: Link
Auf deutsch: Link
En español: Link
En français: Link
日本語):
繁體中文版:
Em português: Link

Noriko (Japanese) - (日本語) Noriko
In english: Link
Auf deutsch:
En español:
En français:
日本語): Link
繁體中文版:
Em português:

Meihui (Chinese) - Meihui (漢語)
In english: Link
Auf deutsch:
En español:
En français:
日本語):
繁體中文版: Link
Em português:

Larissa (Portugese) - Larissa (Portugese)
In english: Link
Auf deutsch:
En español:
En français: Link
日本語):
繁體中文版:
Em português: Link

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HitsHerMark
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 		Awesome Weezel! I've added it to the top post.
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 		RSS Feed for the new posts in the ARG: Find the Lost Ring forum:
http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/rss.php?f=237&c=15
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 		We have forum guests behind chinese firewalls who have been doing excellent translations for Mei Hui. Unfortunately they cannot access the wiki - so somebody needs to copy/paste their work when they post.
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poozle
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 		Just thought I'd mention the Chat available for FTLR (IRC), general instructions for uf chat:

http://forums.unfiction.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14144

Room is called #lostring

Hope to see some of you in soon.

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 		For those stuck behind firewalls and want to get into chat, try Mibbit

Server: radiant.chat-solutions.org:6667
Channel: #lostring
Pick your nickname
No password needed
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poozle
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RedHatty wrote:
For those stuck behind firewalls and want to get into chat, try Mibbit

Server: radiant.chat-solutions.org:6667
Channel: #lostring
Pick your nickname
No password needed


Or the unfiction chat page Wink www.unfiction.com/chat

Just change the channel name to #lostring.

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 		As per the short rant/discussion in the trailhead thread about having a way to keep up-to-date with the news, I was inspired to make a Newsfeed based on the Wiki's Timeline page.

And ta-da:
http://www.thebruce.net/RSS/LostRingWiki.asp

subscribe and see the short summary of the most recent 100 items on the Timeline page.
It can also serve as a quicklink to the page to edit it when something new happens. Note however that it's a scrape of the Timeline page, so the RSS is created based on a strict syntax of the wiki code. So if you make changes, make sure it follows the fomat of previous items, otherwise it'll throw an error (because it doesn't understand the content, of course Smile )

So if we work together, it should be easier to keep that Timeline up to date.
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 		Bringing ovr the topic from the press thread regarding player resources for newcomers...

aliendial wrote:
It's early days yet, but this is an important part of the interview.

Jane McGonigal wrote:
give them the opportunity to play with something first, and kind of get things organized, and set up for when someone who's never played before shows up.

Yeah that was a key paragraph I noticed when I read it too...
As has been mentioned elsewhere, so much has happened just in one week, it's a lot of info to get up and organized on the wiki, especially with only 4 or 5 people regularly helping... I've been more focused at this point on making it readable and friendly (ymmv), with a bit of effort on getting the latest events tracked (still greatly lacking in the initial few days).

There definitely needs to be a good "START HERE" for newcomers, branching off into a few formats, like - seeing what's happened so far, whether detailed point form or just summaries - and more of a research, informational focus, covering what the game's about, its connection to the olympics and the mysteries of the ancient olympics, attempting to open the door for research and brainstorming at various websites/communities/forums/etc.

There's a lot of research data and history stuff that's been speculated on and theorized about that has simply not made it onto the wiki yet, as it's still in its pure info-tracking stages.

Perhaps it's a call to help get it up to date and filled with some meat Smile
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 		I found this paragraph quite intriguing...

Jane MacGonigal wrote:
What can people learn from the game?

McGonigal: They're going to learn about their own strengths. We're going to help them learn what they're good at and then give them missions that are totally customizable to their personal strengths. That's the part of the game I'm most proud of, that innovation. In the ARG world, you don't always know what you're supposed to do. You spend a lot of time waiting and waiting. So we wanted it to be so that for everybody, every time you come to one of the game sites, you know exactly what you're supposed to do, and that we need you because this is what you said you were good at. But that part hasn't started yet.


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 		I agree - I'm really interested to see what this will entail.
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 		Everything above this point has been added to the list.
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