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[BrianEnigma]

[ScarpeGrosse]

Re: My suggestion

[Adrian]

Hehe Seriously though, I think Mos has a very good point. A lot of the puzzles I see in ARGs seem to make absolutely no sense. Even the AI game was a bit absurd with its dripping water = Enigma code puzzles; the only reason they managed to get away with it is because they had the excuse of mad AIs.

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[krystyn]

Considering how quickly we blew through the puzzles, and how much the PMs had to scramble to keep up with us, we did have time.

There were 7,000 of us, after all.

And I think Mos was being a bit unfair with the Vad/Barbie spoof from Lockjaw - a lot of the information the players were privy to was not totally available to the 'bad guys.' The Pythia (remember her?) gave the players a few clues here and there, and the dcmetro site filled in the blanks. The two characters had a history and understanding that the audience wouldn't have known about had we just released Moreland's/Ganmed's site and nothing else.

I think the criticism about 'nonsensical' puzzles can be accurate, but I also think it's valid to point out that the players are often given a much wider scope of information than the people in the game universe have reasonable access to. In my experience, anyway.

[wraith]

[Wolf]

There was always (at least during Lockjaw and Mu) consideration of "does this puzzle make me look fat?"--er, I mean, "does this puzzle logically fit the character?" We took a cue from Sencha in Beast and tried to make the puzzles consistent stylistically/in "feel." Like Sencha, whose puzzles were all tactile--dominoes, origami cranes, things you had to put your hands on, we did have time and opportunity to consider things like that and I hope we managed to pull it off.

[krystyn]