One year after we started this crazy train of ARG Netcast discussions, we’ve reached episode 40. Joining host Jonathan Waite (ARGNet) for the festivities are Sean C. Stacey (Unfiction, Despoiler) and konamouse (Unfiction forum moderator).
News Items of the Week
- Congratulations go out to the team at 42 Entertainment as their puzzle game Vanishing Point won multiple W3 Awards. The company, well known for its alternate reality games, won
threeeleven awards, including the Best in Show. The W3 Awards are sanctioned and judged by the International Academy of the Visual Arts. - Daniel van Gool, an Unfiction forums administrator, was kind enough to report on PICNIC ’07 for ARGNet. His three part report is available on argn.com, and is an in-depth look at this year’s cross-media conference.
- The end has come for It’s Coming, a viral marketing campaign we last told you about in episode 37. As it turns out, the game was a buzz-generating project for the Ditch Witch Zahn, a trenching machine.
- Many people have been receiving postcards and strange emails for a game being called “The Book of Minimer Randibone” or “Zetria Atrian”. The Chaotic Fiction narrative is filled with references to the classic arcade game R-Type, the printed quality of the postcards is quite high, and a privately-registered web site has recently been discovered, so its anyone’s guess where this one is going, but so far it’s providing enigmatic fun for onlookers and participants alike.
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2 Comments Received
October 26th, 2007 @5:54 pm
Just a note on the ‘hacking’ with 1-18-08 business. From what I gathered it was just guessing passwords, with the photobucket password being ‘Paramount’. If anything I’d say that just sloppy work by the makers, with something like that project they should expect the ravenous fans to try anything, and should have never used such an obvious password.
In my opinion puppet-masters should lean from their own (and others) mistakes, seeing the things players have done in the past, and preparing for them. Mind Candy were good with this, in that even though they did make a fair few mistakes, they never made the same mistake twice.
November 14th, 2007 @6:34 am
Hey Guys! Great netcast. FYI, that was me that phoned in that question about cancer research UK’s contest. What are your thoughts?
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