Inside the Honeypot, Inside the Game 22
VonGuard writes "The Game is the title of an article I have up on the EastBayExpress site, and it's an inside look at 4orty2wo, the company behind ilovebees.com and the original ARG 'Who Killed Evan Chan?'. I also have an interview with the 4orty2wo folks in this month's Game Developer Magazine entitled 'Inside the Honeypot'. Read both carefully and you may find clues to a new ARG!" From the article: "One day last fall, Lenore Henry stood by a pay phone on San Francisco's Market Street. She cupped the thick black shell of the receiver to one ear and plugged the other with an errant finger to block out street noise. Behind her, a man clicked on a recording device and poked a microphone at the telephone mouthpiece. A familiar female voice was on the line. It wasn't a recorded voice as before. This one was live. It was 'the Melissa,' and Lenore needed to make it cry."
Re:To go with the Sarcasm thread... (Score:2)
It *is* interesting -- the I Love Bees campaign was able to generate an unprecedented amount of support and comraderie among fans, and it's interesting to see how this effort was orchestrated. Just to pull a quote from an related Wired article [wired.com]:
In any case, the phones keep ringing all across the United States, and they are even beginning to ring in Holland and England. Some people have driven hours to take part, and one player even braved Florida's Hurricane Ivan to answer a ca
Was I the only one.... (Score:3, Funny)
I better go back to my corner.
Re:Was I the only one.... (Score:5, Funny)
Now there's the subtitle to an "E! True Hollywood Story" I never want to see.
Re:Was I the only one.... (Score:2)
Except for the parent post poster of course
Re:Was I the only one.... (Score:2, Funny)
So... (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:We don't care.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Perhaps the world doesn't revolve around you after all?
Re:We don't care.... (Score:2, Insightful)
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The worst part of the whole thing, however, was not unique to ilovebees - it occurs in any ARG that hits a certain size. It's what I like to call the 'exponential bullshit factor'. Essentially, it's the way that cra
Re:We don't care.... (Score:1)
Welcome to
a few things (Score:3, Informative)
but, this is coming from a writer who couldn't get the lead character's name right (its just Melissa, no "the") and couldn't even get the name of the original A.I. game correct (everyone just calls it "the beast" now, even 4orty2wo)
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Ooh Im so impressed (Score:3, Insightful)
What's this all about? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:What's this all about? (Score:1)