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

[Michelle Senderhauf]

oh, oh!  But David was there to save the day, right?!  </fangirl>
Michelle Senderhauf

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Evan Jones <evan at mysteryjones.com> 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.

>

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> Evan Jones

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