[arg_discuss] TOW: What's the worst unforseen disaster you had inan ARG, and how did you handle it?

[Dan Hon]

That's YOUR cover story and you're STICKING TO IT!

On 8 Jan 2009, at 13:33, Evan Jones wrote:


> Too many lessons learned over the years - I could write ten of these

> messages!

>

> One memorable instance was a storyline that involved the lead  

> scientists of

> the fictional lab discovering and sequencing the lost 1918 Spanish  

> Flu and

> then being betrayed by colleagues who weaponized the virus and  

> planned to

> wipe out half the planet.  The only snag was that almost to the  

> exact day of

> that storyline's release - a REAL scientist managed to sequence the  

> same

> virus in the EXACT SAME WAY which created two 'annoying' predicaments.

> 1. News wire services were now flooding the internet with every  

> searchable

> term that I was using, rendering gameplay impossible.

> 2. I was about to launch a realistic-looking plan to weaponize a  

> disease

> that killed up to 100 million people in the last century.

>

> Oops.

>

> ---

> Evan Jones

> Stitch Media

> 902-482-2157

> _______________________________________________

> ARG_Discuss mailing list

> ARG_Discuss at igda.org

> http://five.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/arg_discuss