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[GoldenNova]

Oh...well...I guess it's safe to assume that we can write off Zach as an ally. The big question now is how do we get our information?

Also, now that everything is red in the status screen, even the previously untouched Gate 2, does that mean he leveled the entire facility, or could that just be part of the computer corruption?

[Seyelback]

Do you think it has finished? That's it? Or do we have to "save" Zach? i rather save Zach..

[Twiler]

That looked like Sutekh/Set to me.

[tempusumbra]

Thank You!

[Seadevil4]

Makes a change the bad guy winning, although most of Lovecraft's stories is the bad guy winning or your not actually sure who bad guy is.

Perhaps they will make another chapter.

Feels like 1am, I'm looking for a kebab and another ARG to inhabit.

Trust me! I don't know what I doing!

G.

[tempusumbra]

Twiler - thank you for noticing! That was my costume Friday night at a Halloween party and I had an endless stream of "ohh, great Anubis costume". Only one person all evening recognized Sutekh/Set - God of chaos and storms

[Seyelback]

Oh, hello there! Thank you!

Aaaaw! It is a shame it has finished, but it was really satisfying to find that Vignere code. I really hoped to save Zach!

Did the letters in the event logs have any meaning? I kept playing with them to see if there were any secret meaning!

Thanks for the game! On the feedback bit, I enjoyed the blog and the emails with Zach, I guess that part is quite hard if you have loads of people writing but the emails were something nice to look forward to. I liked the idea of the telephone, it was just hard for me to call being in EU and without any idea of how long I would have to be listening or trying. I would have liked different sites to find clues, like adding a third website with the back story of one of the doctors, or pictures of the research. More puzzles are always welcome . I liked the intro videos, they make us think loads of theories and possibilities. Thank you for the ARG and happy halloween!!

[Cobalt Monkey]

Well, thanks for the shout out, "Set." But I didn't do much myself, just posting what I saw, and confusing people mostly. Really, the vets around here did the heavy lifting in this one. I wouldn't even have known about it if Sey hadn't posted it in the forum.

Honest opinions wanted, eh? Hmm... Well, keep in mind I'm a noob, but here goes.
As Sey said, the blogs and emails were neat to watch, and I may try my hand at it next time I play one of these. I'm a table top RPG player, so I'm quite used to the idea of staying 'in character' for stuff.
Getting us really acquainted with the character of Zach was good too, giving us shots of the info on him and his day to day life. Made the weirdness stand out more.
I would have liked a few more clues that weren't strictly number based. Like the Sentinel Warning interference in the videos. This mostly because I'm not great with computer stuff.
The AI's breakdown was good. Maybe it could have been stretched out a bit further. With changes appearing slowly and in fewer numbers until the meltdown.
This one is mostly personal preference, but I would have liked to be able to succeed against our cloaked invader somehow. But not all stories have a happy ending, I know.

Question Time!
What was your inspiration for the game? We all threw around suspicions but couldn't nail down any one source. There were a lot of parts that seemed very Lovcraftian, were there any other sources?
Was the Report Field working as intended? Were we supposed to be able to change what it said?

All said and done, I enjoyed this quite a bit. Thanks for putting in the hard work! I look forward to future projects.

[muse]

OH NOOOESSS, it's over? Dang, this is why college is annoying haha--you skip a few days to get work done and things run off without you. ^.^

Still, it was definitely a fun experience and a great way to jump into ARGs--this was my first, and I'm definitely hooked for future games.

Again, too much work on my plate to do more than jump in quickly and wave, then run off again, but I'll have more feedback, questions and such probably later today or tomorrow.

Thanks for putting together such a great little ARG!

[tempusumbra]

notes

[muse]

ROFL I was way off with the posters, haha! Nice touch though, and thank you for the shoutout. The little bit I did was minimal, and as more of a writer/character-oriented person than a puzzle solver it was all I could really think of to stay involved.

I'm assuming that Zach was our puppetmaster?

As to feedback, all I can say is that I wish there had been more ways to be involved in the story, more bits and pieces to discover as clues were dropped. That said, as a personally funded and totally independent game, this was great! The work you must have put into the website and effects were definitely appreciated on this end.

Also, you might want to know that myself and a few classmates will be doing a short presentation on this ARG for a college course on Tuesday.

[tempusumbra]

Thank you so much! yes, I am Zach. Actually, I am all the characters except Dr. Cavendish. it was fun splicing up the video so that I could be two or three people on the screen at the same time. I did try to provide both a story line for non-puzzle people and some puzzles for puzzle people. The args I've liked best followed that type of mix. I just don't have the time myself to ever go into any of the hard-core puzzle oriented ones so for me just give me a story, and toss out a few puzzles that are something below brain-surgery in complexity.Wish I could have done more development all around - good suggestion about more interaction. And you are right - while I had some very valuable help from Dr. C, most of this was just me with no budget in my spare time.

[Cobalt Monkey]

Re: notes

[adamtash]

Damn miss a day and ah well, followed this from the start, and just want to say hats off to Zach, man don't be hard on yourself seen a lot more ham and cheese on British T.V , I enjoyed this and just wanted to say thanks really. Nice one.

[tempusumbra]

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