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Q&As in various places

December 21st, 2006

Lots of interviews prompted by Areae. Here’s a couple:

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  1. Friday Links, Fallout Edition - Amber Night wrote on

    [...] agree with Mike, Raph is loving the "meta" guessing [...]

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  1. JuJutsu said on

    Currently, our sneaker support is fairly limited. But hey, we’re not even in alpha yet.

    Wow, you’re hardly going and you already have limited sneaker support. You guys are going gangbusters! :P

  2. MikeRozak said on

    I think you’re creating a meta-game now, which is to guess what the game will be about. You’ve posted cryptic clues in cartoon logos and on half a dozen short interviews.

    If you take the first letter from each of your responses to GigaGamez, it spells, “inioi”… which is obviously the name of your game! Or is it, “iiutiiic”, from Amber’s interview, which is nearly a roman numeral of some deep signficance. :-)

    And/or you’re taking the time-old dungeon master’s approach of listening to the ideas that your players put forth while talking amongst themselves. Personally, I think there’s a troll hiding in the wonky castle, and it’s protected from being permanently killed by wearing a ring of fire protection +5. :-P

  3. Michael Chui said on

    *scoffs*

    You’re making it too simple, Mike. Clearly, it’s the twenty-third letter. (This fact is a reference to Discordianism, which Raph is a clear follower of, as well as Numbers 23:23, and the age of Alexander the Great when he cut the Gordian Knot. I mean, isn’t it obvious? :P )

    Which means it’s “Tshht” from GigaGames, and “Albotdke” from Amber’s interview. Actually, that second one had me going for a bit. I thought it’d turn out with something with a vaguely reasonable distribution of vowels.

    Hmm… “Ek’d Tobla”?

    I should stop thinking about this before I start having too much fun. *whistles*

  4. Mark T. said on

    Whats web 2.0?

  5. Michael Chui said on

    If that was a serious question, then I’d point you here:

    http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/09/what_is_web_20.html
    Then here, and here:
    http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10/web_20_compact_definition.html
    http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/12/web_20_compact.html

  6. Aaron Matthew said on

    Maybe it isn’t a coincidence that Areae rhymes (in one pronunciation at least) with ARG. I’m down for playing the Raph ARG, but he hasn’t released enough clues yet, unless the clues have been seeded in past blogs going who knows how far back.

    Come on guys, lets see how far absurdist we can take this.

  7. Mark T. said on

    Yea it was Micheal thankyou for the links.
    I dont see what that has to do with making games? Or rather how that type of environment is incorporated into an mmorpg, If an mmorpg isnt that type of environment already. Is he saying he plans to make it moreso?

  8. Mark T. said on

    Or Raph, a little explanation here?

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