[arg_discuss] "go look for easter eggs"

[Andrea Phillips]

On 4/28/06, despain at quantumcontent.com <despain at quantumcontent.com> wrote:
>
> Just thought I'd pick the collective brain.
>
> What are your favorite ways of telling players "hey, there's an easter egg
> to be found" or "you have missed x number of easter eggs so far."
>
> I need to hit someone over the head and point out the obvious (they've
> been looking right at the easter eggs and not seeing them), but I want to
> do it in the most elegant way possible.



Hmmm. I take a pretty cautious view of these things, and if information is
crucial to get to the players, I'm keen on always having a strategy in place
to nudge them in the right direction. Some techniques you could use include
updates with unusual or telling word choice, or simply fabricating new
content with a second way to get  to the same thing. It tends to be very
situational, though, so there are very few one-size solutions. What works as
a hint for "look at the page source" isn't the same as "no, really, this is
the password you should have guessed last week." I don't suppose you want to
give out details on a public list, but if you want to privately email me
details, I'd be happy to give you any suggestions I can think of. :)

I guess that's part of our whole balancing act, isn't it? That judgement
call between making something so easy it isn't fun or interesting, and
making it so hard or obscure that nobody ever gets to the end of the
rainbow...

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Andrea Phillips
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