ID:265599
 Jul 5 2006, 5:36 pm
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Has anyone attempted to make an alternate reality game on BYOND? Like perhaps a player goes to download the game, but gets a message from the player, saying that he accidentally put a bad file on BYOND, and gives the player a link to a corrected version. When the player gets the link, he comes upon either a broken link, or one of those retarded advertising sites with 50 more links on them. From there, the player's resolve would be tested by a series of puzzles, requiring the player to find passwords, unencrypt strangely encoded files, etc. All this is done while the player is thinking that they're being sneaky. I'm not sure if this would work well on BYOND, since, well, it's not really involving BYOND at all. I still think it'd be really interesting to see another alternate reality game.
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What do you mean "alternate reality game"? What you described has nothing to do with alternate realities.
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Maybe because its late, or because Im not understanding you, but what you just said sounded like those one sites that you go on a page and its like 'click me to quit' then.. 'I got you, click this one' 'no this times final' 'HA. got you again' 'plz rate my game' 'kkthxbai'
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Both.
What he's saying is that someone should make a BYOND puzzle game outside BYOND, where instead of running in a single BYOND world it is across the internet with like puzzles and passwords to work out and stuff. | |
You'd have to be careful not to make it too obscure though. If someone gets to one of those lame domain-hijacking advertising sites, they'll just assume that the site is dead and give up. (I know I do.)
But yes, something similar has been done, many times. The Mysteries from the BYOND contest is one example. | |
-Exophus