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Further clarification from the Alias PMs

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Further clarification from the Alias PMs

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From: retroorbit
Date: Thu Oct 31, 2002 11:27 am
Subject: Re: OT: HEY zephyr_hex did Jesse recognize you...
<snip>
TO: THE WEBPUZZLERS
FROM: Jesse & Rick

Sorry you guys didn't get all your questions in... so here's the
answers you requested:

1) do the highlighted letter locations have meaning, or are they
used just for their visual effect?
-If you recall, last year they did end up having a meaning...
so it's probably worth the effort to keep track of them.

2) was the name "rambaldi" selected solely because it's an anagram
for "admiral b" (admiral bill was the mole in the show Mole?
-Rambaldi was named after special effects master Carlo
Rambaldi. He created E.T. (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Rambaldi,+Carlo)

3) I'd like to hear more about the use of the number 47
-The recurrence of the number 47 is merely a coincidence. Wink

4) Do all of the show's writers share responsibility for
orchestrating the web puzzle, or is it only a selected few?
-Last season, the "game" was originally budgeted as just
a "web-presence", a couple of web sites created by Eric Scott. By
mid-season, we'd exceeded our budget... so we (Jesse and Rick)
started improvising a new chapter for the game every week or so using
the great free resources of the internet: created free web sites, put
up personal ads, used public chat rooms, free encryption software
etc... Because of our limited resources and time, we had to work
with what we had. It was a very small scale project.

5) did last year's web puzzle progress as expected, or were there
surprises the puzzle makers encountered along the way? did we miss
the boat on some important things?
-The puzzle progressed in a completely unexpected way. We
literally improvised each and every step based off player reactions
and performance. One thing that was very unexpected was the way the
players became very secretive and competitive with each other...
creating private forums, leaking information to each other
strategically, holding back certain info. As a result, we had to
create aliases as players, and "infiltrate" the various public and
private groups in order to find out how far the players had
progressed in the game -- so that we knew when to create/launch the
next chapter etc. The puzzlers missed the boat on very few things...
there were some files/clues on limewire/morpheus that were never
found... However, they weren't necessary to complete the game.

6) are there two strains of the online puzzle this year? it seems
that the weiss missions structured, and tend to be "go and fetch"
type of info gatherings, while the less structured conspiracy chick
site seems to be more in tune with the show's current plotline. why
was this done, and will we see more non-weiss puzzles?
-There aren't really two strains of the puzzle this year...
And the current puzzle will sync up with the show more along the
way. The conspiracychick site was a way to give a shout out to the
people we thought performed exceptionally last season. However, we
wouldn't be surprised if the site tied into the game in the near
future and/or the "sleeper agents" were called upon at some
point.

7) what is the "signalost" recovery method that marshall used to
restore that erased hard drive sector (i think this was the snowman
episode)?
-Signalost would be able to tell you that better than we
would.

Cool

did sept 11 change the way the online puzzle was carried out?
(i.e. we had a camo'd evil bert/osama pic last season). Also, since
we now know the CIA/FBI monitor the internet for terrorist-like
activities, were there any concerns that the puzzle might emulate spy
stuff too much?

-We did consider those factors when we were coming up with
the web-game... but what we liked about the puzzle was that it in
some ways showed the potential of the internet for such applications.

9) are there intentions to keep the rambaldi storyline active
throughout the life of alias?
-At the moment, Rambaldi is a permanent fixture of the Alias
world.

10) if the CIA was so interested in sydney because of the page 47
prophecy, why are they not doing the medical exams, etc on her
mother? and why aren't they suspicious/afraid that she might be the
one who fulfills the prophecy?
-Perhaps they have performed some of these tests on her
already. The prophecy is probably a good reason to keep her locked
in a cell under heavy guard 24/7.

Regards,
Rick & Jesse

Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 3:40 pm

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