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CubaLibre
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 Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 6:50 pm |
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Man this thread rules.
| Auptie wrote: |
| So -could- this have been something, do you guys think? Or is it an utter shambles. The pictures kind of work my deep thirsting imagination, though it could just be taco's word-flavouring |
In its current form I think it is impossible for it to be anything but a horrific digital-retail void, like The Matrix applied selectively to strip malls. However, one time they had an ARG that ran inside Home, the plot of which was that you were actually receiving messages from a rogue Home programmer who left a secret hidden inside Home's code, and you would read the email discussions from the rest of her team left behind trying to figure out where she'd gone and what secret she'd left behind. In the vein of most ARGs, of course, each daily/weekly challenge was usually some weird minigame or scavenger hunt, but some of the harder puzzles took a worldwide community to figure out. Par for the course for ARGs I guess, but it was the only one I ever followed (I ended up "beating" it) and it was pretty awesome. It leveraged the idea of Home being on the one hand a fictional/digital place, but on the other specifically designed to be inhabited by "real" people who do not identify with their avatars in a normal videogame way (much like, e.g., Second Life).
I wonder if they ever did another one. I don't think so.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Wed May 30, 2012 1:54 pm |
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That was me who brought up Xi! >:(
The weird antiseptic white spaces were sort of the visualized "behind the scenes" parts of Home, kind of like the hallways with all the doors in the Matrix sequels. The digital utility areas to support the visible world. Actually the entrance to the main Xi hub was a literal manhole in the ground of the central Home area.
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CubaLibre
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| Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 2:43 am |
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| Talbain wrote: |
| You know, if Home were less intentional, it could be the user-generated LSD. |
That is worlds.com.
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