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Six To Start's "Smokescreen" now in beta

**Posted:** Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:07 pm

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Mescad · Boot Joined: 24 Jul 2004 Posts: 63 Location: Lexington, KY

If I'm not mistaken, this is the game that is supposed to teach UK teens about the dangers of sharing too much information on social networking sites. I remember reading an article about it sometime, maybe early last week.

Ah, here it is on ARGN.

**Posted:** Fri Aug 14, 2009 12:22 pm

notgordian

I'm apparently an old fogey, because I can't for the life of me figure out how to proceed in the game for the first stage: I've tracked the Rumor Mill down to Danny, but can't figure out what to do next. It doesn't seem to let me talk to the admins or Danny, and nothing else seems clickable.

EDIT: I'm only an old fogey in that I was using IE8. Sent in a bug report (this is the beta version after all) but the game stalls at one point unless you're using another browser like Firefox.

astrofig · Decorated Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 165

Hi, retarded newbie here--do you just comment to ask for an invite, or what?

**Posted:** Sat Aug 29, 2009 9:33 pm

spaceboy

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:23 am

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I'm the same, stuck after tracing the rumour mill. Nothing seems to be do-able now.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:45 pm

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spaceboy

I didn't have any problems finishing it. You just pretty much have to follow what they say in the chat.

That's about my only complaint so far. It's almost too on rails for my liking. Otherwise, it's alright.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:51 pm

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astrofig · Decorated Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 165

It seems really buggy--it's way too slow to load. I can't get past Danny's profile because the chat window disapears. Then again I'm playing on IE. i refuse to download a whole new browser just to play a game.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:53 pm

spaceboy

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:55 pm

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astrofig · Decorated Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 165

Won't that hurt an HP, though? Anyway, I got to Danny's profile with the chat thing up and there's still nothing.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:03 pm

spaceboy

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:15 pm

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astrofig · Decorated Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 165

True. Urgh, I just hope downloading it doesn't ACTUALLY delete all your bookmarks and things you'd downloaded before....

Edit: Looks like you can't get it anyway without buying it. Not doing that.
Edit the Second: Disregard this; I'm retarded.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:19 pm

notgordian

Also, it's worth noting the IE bugs will be fixed in time for the official release of the game (the 3rd, I believe). Got a message back from Six to Start, and they're aware of the problem and addressing it.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 4:55 pm

plugs

Well, I'm playing on Chrome. FF is just as buggy/slow as IE for me and always has been.

I guess it's browser related then, definitely not easy to finish here.

**Posted:** Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:26 pm

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spaceboy

So, I'm guessing the beta is just the first mission? I was hoping for a full play-through. Oh well, guess I don't have to wait too long.

**Posted:** Tue Sep 01, 2009 12:20 pm

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