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[notgordian]

Christiana Ellis (podcast novelist [Space Casey is awesome]) got a package/trailhead for this. She filmed the unpacking process.
http://christianaellis.com/?p=999

Her dog is cute.

[Angelus78]

I might not like the show but dang I wish I had one of those packages.

[diszaster]

I think I may have found a redeeming online asset: a cast member's cartoon of her experience.

http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/colony/pictures/sian-cartoons.html

[alegriavida]

[naxxfish]

[rose]

I looked at the site without the facebook personalization. They have a fair amount of content on it - so it is interesting to read. Because I'm coming into this so late, I don't know if that site was updating constantly or a more static page. There are periodic warnings on the page that reminds you this "virus" is a fictional event - so that pretty much breaks the immersion.

I'm not sure how I feel about the use of facebook connect. Apart from the legal questions (if any, because I don't think Discovery is collecting data from the users as to their friends) and the immersion being imperfect, I think this is the first game I know of to use facebook to actively immerse itself into a player's online life. Pretty smart concept I think -- usually the player is entering the game world, in this instance it seems that the game is really entering the player's world, in a more aggressive way than just sending an email, text, twitter or phone call.

The show starts on Tuesday, I will be checking to see what happens online then.

[DarkHuman]

So did I miss the boat on this one?? The whole story is on the site? No games, no puzzles, just survivalist information? Well, that's cool. I did get a good laugh out of #5 on the list of 10 items to have.

Kinda already a survivalist. So, yeah, old information. Just kinda waiting on the zombie outbreak.

[am7]

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