[arg_discuss] TOW: What's the most surprising thing a player has ever done in one of your ARGs?

[David Flor]

I had one player in LGL, which I still don't know who it really was,
become the "evil bastard" and turn against all the players. He did it
privately, through direct communication with the game's antagonist,
referring to himself as "Mr. Leak" and not even posting about it on
the UF forums, blowing the game wide open.

And, for my second game, I had created two brand new alphabets by hand
(using a font designer) that I intended to use for encoded messages,
expecting to provide the players with the equivalent of a Rosetta
Stone over time. I used those new fonts to encode the addresses of the
senders in the trailheads, assuming they would be too complex to
figure out. By the time the game launched, players had already managed
to decode the entire alphabet (which actually led to two websites that
weren't even ready at the time); I never had to provide the Rosetta
Stones at all, and when I did it was somewhat of a moot point.

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Adam Martin
<adam.m.s.martin at googlemail.com> wrote:

> This week will be the start of the new Topic of the Week from the

> steering committee – The idea is that we will chuck a topic at you

> each week and given you a little something to think about and give us

> your thoughts. We've already come up with a list of questions at the

> minute, but if you want your question to be featured as part of the

> topic of the week, please let me know and we can add it to the list.

>

> (with thanks to Toby Allen et al from the Production SIG for thinking

> of this first :))

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> Our first Topic of the Week:

>

>  -  What's the most surprising thing a player has ever done in one of your ARGs?

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